The Truth About the West Bank

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Middle East • July 2011 • Views: 1,103

Recently, when discussing support for Israel a well known lizard asked if the USA should support Israel no matter what they did? I asked what Israel might have done to lose support. They could not point to anything specific, but admitted they did not understand why Israel was building these illegal settlement that they heard so much about.

Although I tried to clear it up, I wanted to post this to help clear up some of the terms, and history of the West Bank. This is Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon. Hopefully it will be watched with a open mind.

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Bob Levin Thu, Jul 21, 2011 10:59:43am

I saw this a few days ago, and maybe it's time to do some fact-checking.

It seems as if Aylon is minimizing the sovereignty of Jordan before the Six Day War. The eventual State of Israel, in 1948, had been whittled down to the Jewish neighborhoods of the area west of the Jordan River. The rest belonged to Jordan. However, the Arab League punished Jordan for signing a peace treaty with Israel, and somehow removed their right of sovereignty and gave it to the PLO. This occurred in the 1970s. That's been my understanding.

The notion of Israel with defensible borders is quite important, and after the 1967 War, Israel was still being attacked and shelled in the War of Attrition. Essentially, this war dovetailed into the Yom Kippur War, which is when the US became an official ally of Israel.

However, the document that allows Israel to build new cities in areas close to that green line--was the Oslo agreement, signed between Israel and the PLO. That is precisely the agreement that the world is presently trying to ignore--and it's even ignored in this little presentation. The PA push for statehood is an end run around Oslo. The present politically correct narrative, regarding illegal building, ignores Olso.

This is how I understand the history of the region, generally. I'm open to be corrected.

Bob Levin Thu, Jul 21, 2011 11:01:44am

Ayalon. PIMF.

Buck Thu, Jul 21, 2011 1:31:18pm

The question is what was Jordans claim on the West Bank in 1947?

Yes there was a proposal for the West bank to be part of a "arab state", but that was never actually done. It was never accepted by the Arabs. Clearly in hindsight that was a bad decision.

The 1948 War of independence then takes place, and Jordan does not have a legal right to occupy the West Bank. In fact no "Arab State" is established.

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