western bank and Gaza trip
Israel withdrew from Gaza and Jericho in 1994 as part of the Oslo Accords, a series of agreements aimed at achieving peace between Israel and the Palestinians. This withdrawal marked the beginning of Palestinian self-rule in these areas, with the Palestinian Authority being established to govern them. The move was seen as a significant step towards resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, though subsequent events have complicated the peace process.
The Palestinian National Authority was established in 1994 as a result of the Oslo Accords between the Palestine Liberation Organization and Israel. It was created to govern certain areas of the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
Mainly, the city of Netania and around it
The main aim of the PLO is to establish a Palestinian state and to rid the world of Israel. The magnanimity of this unilateral aim should not be underestimated, even as Israel does not appear to be doing the world much harm (aside from global warming and European/American economic recession, which are clearly Jewish plots.). The PLO's main method of attack (when outside of the Palestinian Territories) was to use rocket attacks in civilian areas. It eventually penetrated into the Palestinian Territories and began to use suicide bombings in highly populated civilian areas as Terrorist Acts. Eventually, the PLO became the PA and renounced violence as a method for achieving a solution. The PA's renunciation of violence was not only supported but substantially aided by Israel's construction of the security fence.
The areas of dispute between the Israelis and Palestinians are the entire former Mandate of British Palestine which includes Israel, the West Bank, and the Gaza Strip. The strongest sources of conflict are in the latter two regions and the city of Jerusalem which is partially in Israel and partially in the West Bank according to International Law.
Both countries have large populations that the freshwater reserves of the Sea of Galilee cannot jointly support. As a result, Israel is building desalination plants, but the maintenance of those plants is costly and the effectiveness of those plants is still questionable. As a result, each would prefer a bigger percentage of access to the Sea of Galilee. However, Jordan is in a bind since the Sea of Galilee is entirely surrounded by Israel and only has direct access to the weak Jordan River. (Jordan has no claim to any coastal areas of the Sea of Galilee.) Additionally, Israel is also plumbing aquifers that run under both Israeli national and Palestinian occupied territories which makes the water issue also a Palestinian occupation issue since the Palestinian Authority has not authorized Israeli withdrawals from these joint aquifers.
According to UNSC Resolution 242, Israel was required to cede the West Bank back to Jordan in order to have a peace treaty. As a result, when the Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin was negotiating with Jordanian King Hussein bin Talal of Jordan, Rabin offered to discuss a phased withdrawal of Israeli control from the West Bank and its restoration to Jordanian power (similar to the Sinai Peninsula phased withdrawal). King Hussein actually rejected this overture arguing that they wanted to cede their claim to the West Bank to the Palestinian Authority. Israel agreed to transfer the claim to the West Bank to the Palestinian Authority and made peace with Jordan in 1994.Israel has negotiated on and off with the Palestinian Authority concerning phased withdrawals and areas of local governance. However, Israel has never offered the Palestinian Authority all of the West Bank. (Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak offered Arafat roughly 95% of the territory in 2000, but this was rebuffed because Israel refused to approve a Palestinian Right of Return to Israel.)
There is no fighting in Israel. Ever since 1973, there has been no land war fought in Israel. There are areas of Israel near to the Gaza Strip that are periodically shelled by rockets and most Israeli cities used to be hit by suicide bombers prior to the construction of the Separation Fence. The conflict is primarily in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, especially the West Bank due to the Israeli martial law imposed there. Most violence occurs in and around major cities such as Hebron, Jericho, and Nablus.
Judea was located in the region that corresponds primarily to present-day Israel and the Palestinian territories. It encompassed parts of modern-day Jerusalem and the surrounding areas. Historically, it was a significant part of ancient Israel and has profound religious and cultural significance in Judaism and Christianity.
Yes, Palestine was a country. When Israel was created in 1948, the land was occupied by the British and before that the Turkish Empire. When the UN created Israel after the Holocaust they wanted to split the land in half. Half as Palestine and half as Israel. Arabs did not like the idea. As the British retreated from Israel all the neighboring Arab countries tried to take over Israel. A war ensued and as the Jewish people pushed back their Arab neighbors they declared the land Israel. Palestinians today who live in the West Bank were Jordanian before the war, but never went back to live Jordan, because they want to stay in their home country. The West Bank and Gaza both are Palestinian and are still in Israel, but are run by their own Palestinian governments. Palestinians are determined to get THEIR land back.___________________________________________________________ Palestine has been semi-autonomous (the Palestinian Authority) since renouncing war on Israel in the 1990's. As stated above, the Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza now govern themselves, but they are not an independent country. They are still technically part of Israel. A study of history will show that this land has had many rulers before the Israelis, the Brits, and the Turks. But as the Arabs say"our land will be back".
Yes. Both the Palestinian Authority (formerly the Palestine Liberation Organization) and the Hamas Government of Gaza have engaged in terrorist activities to fight the State of Israel including, but not limited to: suicide bombings in civilian areas, rocket attacks against civilian targets, organizing school shootings, and kidnapping and murdering soldiers. In the last ten years, the position of the Palestinian Authority has become more moderated.