Gaza is a well defined area, but what we call the West Bank is just a collection of pieces on the west, of course, bank of the Jordan river which was captured by the state of Transjordan because the nascent Israeli army was too weak to defend it. (I am glad it was strong enough to defend Tel Aviv; it was not obvious at the time.) Details of the borders will not be settled for a long, long time.
Two-state solution
Gaza is a well defined area, but what we call the West Bank is just a collection of pieces on the west, of course, bank of the Jordan river which was captured by the state of Transjordan because the nascent Israeli army was too weak to defend it. (I am glad it was strong enough to defend Tel Aviv; it was not obvious at the time.) Details of the borders will not be settled for a long, long time.
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1 декабря у нас в семье пополнение: Бенцион и Евгений.
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С днем победы
Ну или V-E Day, неважно. (Народ, правда, спорит, наша победа или не наша, а чего спорить-то.) Crossposted from…
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Dreamwidth: paying
I have been a permanent user of LiveJournal for many years. They used to have a sale like that once in a while. I wonder if Dreamwidth does anything…
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