[Yeul]

What is the context? A bunch of religious crazies decide to build a colony on the sovereign territory of another state.

Now unless you ascribe to that religion or believe that your tribe can do no wrong it all seems simple.

[senderista]

What state? The Ottoman Empire? The British Empire? In either case, foreign colonial states?

[9dev]

The sovereign state of Jordan, for example?

[dlubarov]

Are we talking about the West Bank now? Jordan relinquished any claim they may have had to the territory.