2013 Briefing Book - Print Version - Aipac
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THE HISTORY OF ISRAEL’S BORDERS<br />
LEBANON<br />
LEBANON<br />
Mediterranean Sea Mediterranean Sea<br />
Acco<br />
Megiddo<br />
Jerusalem<br />
Beersheba<br />
Damascus<br />
Sea of<br />
Galilee<br />
Beit She’an<br />
Dead Sea<br />
Tel Aviv<br />
Beersheba<br />
Sea of<br />
Galilee<br />
INTERNATIONAL<br />
ZONE<br />
Dead Sea<br />
Tel Aviv<br />
Haifa<br />
Beersheba<br />
Sea of<br />
Galilee<br />
S a m a r i a<br />
S a m a r i a<br />
Jerusalem<br />
GAZA<br />
Jerusalem<br />
WEST BANK<br />
J u d e a<br />
J u d e a<br />
EGYPT<br />
PHOENICIA<br />
EGYPT<br />
SYRIA<br />
ANSJORDAN<br />
TRA<br />
Mediterranean Sea<br />
EGYPT<br />
Dead Sea<br />
SYRIA<br />
ISRAEL’S ARMISTICE LINES–1949<br />
The Kingdom of<br />
Israel, during the<br />
reigns of Kings<br />
David and<br />
Solomon, was<br />
composed of a<br />
vast territory with<br />
Jerusalem as<br />
its capital.<br />
Proposed Arab State<br />
Proposed Jewish State<br />
The U.N. proposed<br />
dividing the<br />
British Mandate<br />
of Palestine into<br />
Jewish and Arab<br />
states. Israel<br />
accepted the plan.<br />
The Arabs<br />
rejected it and<br />
attacked Israel.<br />
NSJORDAN<br />
TRAN<br />
The modern state<br />
of Israel established<br />
its initial armistice<br />
lines after surviving<br />
invasions by five<br />
Arab armies during<br />
its War of Independence<br />
in 1948.<br />
THE U.N. PARTITION PLAN–1947<br />
Mediterranean Sea<br />
GAZA<br />
Haifa<br />
Jerusalem<br />
Eilat<br />
Sea of<br />
Galilee<br />
Dead Sea<br />
Haifa<br />
Tel Aviv<br />
GAZA<br />
Jerusalem<br />
Beersheba<br />
Eilat<br />
Sea of<br />
Galilee<br />
WEST<br />
BANK<br />
Dead Sea<br />
Gaza City<br />
GAZA<br />
Tel Aviv<br />
Haifa<br />
Sderot<br />
Jenin<br />
WEST BANK<br />
Ramallah<br />
Jerusalem<br />
Bethlehem<br />
Beersheba<br />
Eilat<br />
GOLAN<br />
HEIGHTS<br />
Sea of<br />
Galilee<br />
Nazareth<br />
Samaria<br />
Samaria<br />
Tel Aviv<br />
S a m a r i a<br />
Judea<br />
Judea<br />
Beersheba<br />
WEST<br />
BANK<br />
LEBAN ANON<br />
J u d e a<br />
S INAI<br />
PENINSUL A<br />
LEBAN ANON<br />
SYRIA<br />
GOLAN<br />
HEIGHTS<br />
DAN JORD<br />
Mediterranean Sea<br />
EGYPT<br />
(SINAI PENINSULA)<br />
SYRIA<br />
GOLAN<br />
HEIGHTS<br />
DAN JORD<br />
Mediterranean Sea<br />
EGYPT<br />
LEBANON<br />
Dead Sea<br />
SYRIA<br />
JORDAN<br />
THE SIX-DAY WAR–1967<br />
PEACE TREATY WITH EGYPT –1979<br />
ISRAEL TODAY<br />
BIBLICAL ISRAEL–circa 1020–930 B.C.E.<br />
After successfully<br />
defending itself<br />
in the Six-Day War,<br />
Israel controlled<br />
territory that<br />
tripled its size. It<br />
traded most of that<br />
land in a peace<br />
treaty with Egypt.<br />
As part of the 1979<br />
treaty with Egypt,<br />
Israel yielded<br />
the entire Sinai<br />
Peninsula in return<br />
for a historic<br />
peace treaty<br />
sponsored by<br />
the United States.<br />
Israel’s current<br />
frontiers reflect<br />
its historic 2005<br />
disengagement<br />
from Gaza, the<br />
first time that<br />
Israel ceded<br />
territory outside<br />
the context of a<br />
peace agreement.<br />
This map is for illustrative purposes only and does not imply any view regarding future agreements between Israel and its neighbors.<br />
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