Even if the Palestinians were to change their minds about wiping the Jewish State off the map (they never have), there would remain another major barrier to Israel reverting to the pre-June 1967 borders….they do not exist! During the negotiations to create UN Resolution 242, Arab governments...
the port was much enlarged. It was again cut off in May 1967, whenEgyptblockaded the strait. This action was a principal cause of theSix-Day Warof June 1967. When theSuez Canalwas closed (1967–75), the strait was reopened to thecommerceof all nations and Elat again expanded. A new...
and on April 22, 1948, the Arabs surrendered. Of more than 50,000 Arabs living in Haifa before the war, only about 3,000 subsequently chose to remain under Israeli rule. Despite this, Haifa is stillcosmopolitan, with admixtures of Muslim and Christian Arabs (the latter mainlyMaronites) and...
After October 7 2023, the IDF moved into northern Gaza before sweeping south towards Khan Younis and then Rafah, before returning back to the north in October 2024. More than 2mn people in Gaza have beendisplaced by the conflict, with manyleaving Rafahand some moving toal-Mawasior other ID...
returning it to Egyptian control after the1956 war, but keeping it after the 1967 war. The peace treaty between Egypt and Israel effectively ceded control of Gaza to Israel, but Gaza became a battleground in the Palestinian uprising against Israel known as The Intifada in the late 1980s. This...
Israel says the blockade is necessary to protect its citizens from Hamas, which has controlled the Gaza Strip since 2007. The United Nations classifies Israel as an occupier state over the Palestinian territories, whose occupations and annexations following the 1967 Six-Day War remain in violation ...
Israel occupied the Gaza Strip from 1967 to 2005, and later imposed a land, sea and air blockade on the tiny coastal enclave when Palestinian militant organization Hamas took control of its government in 2007. A major question mark over Israel's war against Hamas is what will happen to the...
The 1948 War. Before the official partition date, the British had begun to withdraw from Palestine during the intensification of violence between the newly arrived Zionists and Arabs. While the Arabs would not permit the organized intrusion by the European Jews, the Zionists, victims of Nazi Germa...
Israel Releases Map of Hezbollah Sites . . . Another War In The Works?Saman Mohammadi
and the southern half of its western shore belongs to Israel. The northern half of the western shore lies within the PalestinianWest Bankand has been under Israeli occupation since the 1967Arab-Israeli war. TheJordan River, from which the Dead Sea receives nearly all itswater, flows from the...