Trump ends Arab preoccupation with occupation in Judea and Samaria

President Trump’s decision to recognise the right of Jews to live in Judea and Samaria (West Bank) ends a long-running Arab political campaign accompanied by murderous terrorist attacks to drive the Jews out under the Arab mantra - “End the Occupation”.  This mantra had become the Arabs’ rallying cry over the last 53 years as they sought to assert sovereignty over every square meter of this hotly-disputed territory. These three little words managed to turn Israel’s miraculous victory in the 1967 Six Day War in Judea and Samaria—that saw the Jewish People’s triumphal return to the heart of the biblical and ancestral land of its forefathers—as something to be reviled and reversed. Those mouthing the mantra did not seek to have the “occupation” ended in favour of Jordan—the previous Arab occupier between 1948 and 1967.