A Quick look at Troubled Borders
The Balfour Declaration, Sykes-Picot, and One State vs. Two States The McMahon / Hussein Correspondence, 1915 (The Beginning of the End)
Lieutenant Colonel Sir Henry McMahon Hussein bin Ali, Emir of Mecca THE ARAB REVOLT 1916-1918
Arab / Bedouin Army being led by King Faisal
T.E. LAWRENCE 1888 -1935
THE SYKES-PICOT AGREEMENT (1916)
Mark Sykes 1879-1919 Francois Georges Picot 1870-1951 Initial map from the Sykes-Picot meetings - 1916. A – French control, B – British control T.E. Lawrence’s map presented to Britain’s War Cabinet, November 1918
THE BALFOUR DELCLARATION (Dated November 7, 1917)
His Majesty's government view with favour the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people, and will use their best endeavours to facilitate the achievement of this object, it being clearly understood that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine, or the rights and political status enjoyed by Jews in any other country British Foreign Secretary, Arthur Balfour
This declaration was sent to the Zionist Federation of Great Britain and Ireland British Mandate Palestine 1923-1948 UN PARTITION PLAN, 1947
ONE STATE OR TWO STATES?
Across the Wall According to Israeli human rights group, Israeli Settlement Bus Routes
B’tselem, Israeli settlements and their THE WALL Mediterranean Sea Mediterranean Tulkarm Jenin attendant infrastructure (Jewish only Area Guide Israeli bus companies operate a transport network Qalqilya 467 Imanu’el connecting illegal Israeli-only 01:56 Nablus roads, transit systems, checkpoints, etc. settlements throughout 477 the occupied Palestinian Elon More West Bank. Access to these 01:51 services is barred to Palestinians living in the Ariel 251 now constitute at least 42% of the West surrounding areas. 01:12 Ma’ale Separation Wall approved route Modi’in Illit Efraim 01:10 Green Line pre-1967 border 00:31 Beit El 347 00:48 949 170 Bank. Palestinian areas 147 Limited Palestinian control Ofra
Ramallah 01:02 Jordan River Palestinian areas Psagot Full Israeli control 01:06 179 Palestinian areas 171 Tel 143 Annexed to Israel by Wall Tsiyon 109 Mevo Givat 00:41 Horon Ze’ev 142 00:42 00:25 Ramat Geva Shlomo Binyamin Travel Ramot 00:12 00:32 00:18 10 Jericho Information 31 Israeli buses use an 66 extensive network of roads Pisgat built to seamlessly NEW Ze’ev E1 Planned connect settlements 00:19 on both sides of the Wall West Jerusalem to cities within Israel. 173 Many of these roads are 120 3 Mishor prohibited to Palestinians Ma’ale Adumim or require them to apply Old City Adumim 00:58 Map detailing the route of 00:14 00:24 for special permits from 8 the Israeli military authority. East Talpiot 00:10 31 Bus line and stop Rachel’sTomb 62 Gilo Route number 00:18 00:32 Israel’s separation wall and 31 Har Gilo Gilo Israeli settlement 00:15 163 00:18 Journey time from West Jerusalem 298 Beitar Illit 167 regions of Israeli and Palestinian 00:25 Efrata Bethlehem 00:36 164 Bat Ayin 00:45 semi-autonomous control in the Dead Sea WEST BANK WEST ISRAEL
165 160 Asfar Hebron 01:14 West Bank Kiryat Arba 01:02
151 Shani Livne 02:02
SOURCE http://bus.co.il/ last viewed on 6 July 2012. Journey times calculated from West Jerusalem Green Line crossing.
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