Answer 1
The West Bank is a part of the state of Palestine, although the entire state of Palestine has been under Israeli occupation since 1967.
Commentary on Answer 1
The West Bank was annexed by the Kingdom of Jordan in the 1950s, although the residents of the area were never accorded citizenship in the Kingdom, and the territory itself was by and large not integrated into the country's economy or society. It's a rather awkward reality that more than 50 years after its annexation by the Hashemite Kingdom, large communities of Muslim Arabs still live without Jordanian Passports in areas still described as 'refugee camps'.
As of the beginning of 2013, the West Bank is governed and policed by the Palestinian Authority (president Mahmoud Abbas etc.), and travel between the territory and Israel is tightly controlled by Israel at their mutual border, for obvious security reasons. There is little if any cooperation between the Palestinian communities of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, understandable since Hamas took over Gaza in an armed campaign and overthrew the Palestinian Authority in 2007 (after the withdrawal of all Israeli settlers and military personnel.)
The West Bank will undoubtedly comprise a major portion of a Palestinian state when one is established, but that hasn't yet taken place.
Answer 2
As concerns ownership of the West Bank, Jordan attacked Israel first and Israel retaliated. Since Jordan attacked first, Israel conquered the territories in self-defense. Since actions in self-defense are considered legally justifiable, Israel would have the rights to those territories. However, Israel was willing to concede some of those rights pursuant to a final, lasting peace with its Jordan. Therefore, Israel ceded the possible claim to the West Bank to Jordan in UN Resolution 242 and Jordan then agreed to cede its rights to claim the land in full to the Palestinian Authority in 1988 and 1994. Because of this, the Palestinian Authority has the right to claim the lands of the West Bank. There are certainly Israelis who disagree with the extent of these rights, their viability vis à vis their religion, or use the doctrine of terra nullius to disavow the Palestinian Authority of these rights, but this is the minority of Israelis. Most Israelis want the majority of the West Bank to revert to the Palestinian Authority with a guarantee of peaceful coexistence. Since the initial Israeli cession to Jordan in UN Resolution 242 required a final peace treaty for the transfer of territory, that final peace is requisite for the proper transfer of the land.
Israel expanded its West Bank settlements.
The two country is Israel and Jordan between the west bank.
It's on the west bank of the River Jordan. The country called Jordan is on the east bank.
No. Judaism is the primary religion of the state of Israel, and Islam is the second religion. (On the West Bank, Islam is the primary religion and in the settlements, Judaism). Christians are in third place in Israel (and in on the West Bank). There are villages in both Israel and the West Bank where Christian Arabs are in the majority.
The Bank of the West is in eastern Jerusalem, on the Gaza strip and in Israel. The land area is 5640km.
about 20 square miles.
West Bank is in the country of Israel in Asia.
It is on the boundary of Jordan and Israel.
The west bank nations include Israel and Jordan. It's landlocked territory near the Mediterranean coast.
Jerusalem is in Israel ; the capital of that nation .
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Israel withdrew from much of the West Bank.