JEWISH COMMUNITIES ON THE WEST BANK ARE AN OBSTACLE TO WAR By Don Feder September 27, 2002 The most widely accepted myth of Arab propagandists is that Jewish communities (AKA: settlements) in Judea and Samaria (AKA: The West Bank) are an obstacle to peace. The opposite is true: They are a barrier to the final jihad planned by Yasser Arafat and his unholy warriors. Jewish roots are sunk deep in the hill country of Judea and Samaria – the region’s names from Biblical times until the Jordanian occupation of 1948-1967, when the Hashemite Kingdom renamed the area the West Bank...