Norway will be turning its diplomatic office in the West Bank into an embassy
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“West Bank?”.
The area of Judea and Samaria from the Bible?
The area that was part of Israel in 1000BC, and remained so, until the Romans expelled the Jews in 70 AD (renaming the area Palestine)?
The area that was part of The Palestinian Mandate (meant for the establishment of a Jewish state), and left over after two thirds of that same mandate was given to a Saudi Prince in 1921 and named “The Emirate of Transjordan”?
The area originally meant to be part of the Jewish state that was invaded by Transjordan in 1948, occupied, declared part of of “Jordan” (the rename state of Transjordan), since Transjordan meant east of the Jordan, and now they occupied the area west of the Jordan and half of Jerusalem?
The area that Jordan no longer calls part of Jordan?
It seems that Norway and Spain have forgotten their Judean Christian roots.
Uhm, “Transjordan” means “Across the Jordan”. Hence the name when it was first declared, on BOTH sides of said river.
Then the West Bank was separated from that state, which was subsequently re-named Jordan, since it was no longer on both sides of the river.