Official Israeli diplomacy deploys biblical covenant claims to justify West Bank settlement.

Evidence

During his speech, the secular ambassador covered his head with a black yarmulke, raised his right hand while holding the Hebrew Bible, and declared: “This is our deed to our land… . God gave the land to the people of Israel in Genesis, when he made a covenant with Abraham” (Danon 2019). — Nadim N. Rouhana and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, When Politics Are Sacralized, 436

Categorization

• ADDENDUM: Supports the MOC argument that religiously legitimized claims to land function to make rivals’ rights violatable; concrete instance of the ‘sacred deed’ trope.