ISRAEL - Sovereignty Cannot Be Partitioned

[The following is commentary from] Bishop Dennis Nthumbi is the Africa director of the Israel Allies Foundation, president of the Golgotha Christian Foundation, and international bishop of the African American Clergy Leaders Association.

Decisions on Gaza, Judea and Samaria, and the Golan Heights must remain solely in the hands of Israel’s elected legislature to protect national security and self-determination.

Current diplomatic discourse at the United Nations regarding Gaza reflects a fundamental misunderstanding of sovereignty. While the international community debates various proposals, they all share a common flaw: the presumption that external actors have the authority to determine the future of territories that fall under Israel’s legitimate jurisdiction. Recent American and Russian proposals, presented as solutions, actually constitute foreign impositions that erode the foundations of Israeli democracy and security. The only legitimate authority to determine the future of Gaza, Judea and Samaria, and the Golan Heights rests exclusively with Israel’s democratically elected legislative body: the Knesset.

Security decision-making cannot be delegated. The Israeli government, through the Knesset, bears sole responsibility for protecting its citizens from threats emanating from all territories under its control. The integrated nature of threats from Gaza, Judea and Samaria, and beyond requires a comprehensive security strategy that only Israel can formulate and implement. International bodies have repeatedly demonstrated their inability to guarantee Israeli security, making their proposals not just unhelpful but dangerous.

-themedialine.org, 19 November 2025

Commentary: The voice of Bishop Dennis Nthumbi is like refreshing spring water in a desert. Most of us have already gotten used to what the world’s media proclaims: Israel is more or less rejected. Who would dare say, “Israel has sovereignty over Judah and Samaria”?

At the end of the article, one reads: “Israel now faces profound decisions about its future and security. Those decisions must be made in Jerusalem, not New York, Moscow, or Brussels.”

The name Jerusalem appears for the last time in the Old Testament in Malachi 2:11: “Judah hath dealt treacherously, and an abomination is committed in Israel and in Jerusalem; for Judah hath profaned the holiness of the LORD which he loved, and hath married the daughter of a strange god.” Sin is unmercifully exposed; yet in the end, the prophet proclaims: “And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers, lest I come and smite the earth with a curse” (4:6).