What is the collective name for the Sinai Peninsula, the West Bank, the Gaza Strip, and the Golan Heights?It has to do with the arab-israeli conflict. What role does this area play in the israeli-arab conflict? | |
What is the collective name for the Sinai Peninsula, the West Bank, the Gaza Strip, and the Golan Heights?It has to do with the arab-israeli conflict. What role does this area play in the israeli-arab conflict? | |
The collective name for the Sinai Peninsula, the West Bank, the Gaza Strip, and the Golan Heights is the Land of Israel.
The Israeli claim to the West Bank (as Judea and Samaria were carefully renamed by Jordan after 1948, in precisely the same way, and for the same reason, that the Romans, nearly two thousand years before, had renamed Judea as "Palestine" and Jerusalem as Aelia Capitolina) is not that of a military occupier, though it is also that. The main legal and historic claim is that based on the League of Nations Mandate, which in turn, was based on a considerable historic and moral claim recognized by the educated leaders of the then-civilized world, who actually knew something of the history of the area, and were not nearly as misinformed as so many have been by the mass media, and the laziness and prejudice of journalists today.
The notion of "occupation" of course evokes imagines of Occupied Paris, or Occupied Berlin, after the war. It implies no justification for the claims of the power with the military presence. But the claim of Israel to the lands it took in 1967 are based, for the Sinai, on the standard rules of post-war settlement, the rules which have obtained for centuries, whereby a victor in a war of defense keeps what he has won. If the Israelis chose not to, or were forced not to exercise that right, it does not mean that the right did not exist. It did, and it applies even more forcefully to Gaza and the West Bank. But the claim there is not based merely on the successful conquest of territory to which otherwise Israel had no claim. It did have a claim, a claim based clearly on the Mandate for Palestine -- and like all the other League of Nations Mandates, was formally accepted, taken over as it were, by the United Nations when it came into being. This is a matter of record. It cannot be undone.
Palestine. However it only partially occupies the Sinai Peninsula as far as i'm aware.
there is NO collective name for this areas. every area stand for it's name.
the locals call it a VERY DANGEROUS PLACE TO LIVE!
WARSOR GHETTO.