POLI 347 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Fatah, Six-Day War, Political Status Of Crimea
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1967 and aftermath: both sides in a tit for tat trying to get the other to make the first move. Adds to the problem of refugees from 1948. Mostly in the west bank flee to jordan. Most laws/international institutions implicates permanent stay within these areas we call it occupied territories. Some israelis want to call it disputed territories. Occupied states may not be the correct term because there was no peace treaty in 1948 leaves territories ambiguous: no clear sense of who the regions belonged to, where the borders were. Justice minister says we cannot annex the land without letting the people there become citizens. Other people do not want to absorb the people in the areas but they want to keep the territories. Gaza although it was small it would increase the border areas: they assumed that the occupations would be shorter term than the reality, (i) withdrawal of israel armed forces from territories occupied in the recent.