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Pioneering news site enthusiastically signs on to ‘Biblical Heartland Resolution’.
Under the leadership of its founders Joseph and Elizabeth Farah, WND has committed to adhering to the “Biblical Heartland Resolution” passed recently by the National Religious Broadcasters convention, whereby participants pledge to use the terms “Judea and Samaria” when referring to the region in eastern central Israel, rather than the ubiquitous but misleading term “West Bank.”
“NRB opposes the use of the erroneous term ‘West Bank’ to describe the biblical heartland of Israel and calls on its members to refer to the region by its historic name of Judea and Samaria,” read the statement released by the organization at its national convention in Nashville, Tenn., earlier this year.
National Religious Broadcasters is an international association of evangelical communicators with 141 million Americans using Christian media at least once per month. The “Biblical Heartland Resolution” called for participating media to refer to the region solely as Judea and Samaria for the simple reason that this was the terminology of the Bible and has been used throughout history.
The resolution adopted the historically and biblically accurate terms of Judea and Samaria – or in Hebrew, Yehuda and Shomron – referring to the Northern and Southern Kingdoms of Israel. The term “West Bank,” explained the resolution, is intentionally inaccurate.
The 1922 League of Nations’ decision to create the Mandate for Palestine allocated the entire region of Judea and Samaria for Jewish settlement. From 1949-1967, the region was illegally occupied by Jordan, which cleansed the region of Jews, prohibiting them from returning. The term “West Bank” was introduced by the Kingdom of Jordan to refer to Israel’s occupation of the land on the west bank of the Jordan River from 1948-1950…
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