Mideast Policy. The Geneva Peace Initiative. The Unilateral Withdrawal Option. The Palestinian Money Trail. The Aqaba Peace Summit. The Threat from North Korea. The Threat from Iraq. Camp David Two Years Later. What Israel has Done for Peace. A "Provisional" Palestinian State. The Palestinian "Right of Return". The Bush Peace Plan. The Green Line Click to enlarge. The surrounding Arab states refused to recognise Israel, meaning its borders remained unset.
The biggest change to Israel's frontiers came in , when the conflict known as the Six Day War left Israel in occupation of the Sinai peninsula, the Gaza Strip, the West Bank, East Jerusalem and most of the Syrian Golan Heights - effectively tripling the size of territory under Israel's control.
Israel effectively annexed East Jerusalem - claiming the whole of the city as its capital - and the Golan Heights. These moves were not recognised by the international community, until the US changed its official position on the matter under the Trump administration, becoming the first major power to do so.
Overwhelmingly, international opinion continues to consider East Jerusalem and the Golan Heights as occupied territory. One of Israel's land borders was formalised for the first time in , when Egypt became the first Arab country to recognise the Jewish state.
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Gay Haredim Turn to Her for Help. Sometimes She Prescribes Chemical Castration. Israel Could Soon Reopen to Tourists. The only way for the Palestinians to have their rights and Israel to survive as a Jewish and democratic state, Mr. Obama argues, is to end the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and give the Palestinians a state of their own. He lives in a nearby settlement called Tekoa.
And he said he's not opposed to the creation of a Palestinian state. What he is frustrated by is President Obama's apparent willingness to draw a new border that doesn't take into account, Jewish history.
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