{"id":8951,"date":"2020-07-13T13:39:34","date_gmt":"2020-07-13T08:09:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/?p=8951"},"modified":"2020-07-13T13:39:34","modified_gmt":"2020-07-13T08:09:34","slug":"france-on-israels-west-bank-annexation-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/france-on-israels-west-bank-annexation-plan\/","title":{"rendered":"France on Israel&#8217;s West Bank annexation plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<section class=\"hero-section\" data-type=\"type-1\">\n<header class=\"entry-header\">\n<h1 class=\"page-title\"><span style=\"font-size: 1.125rem; color: #0000ff;\">Relevance: Prelims\/Mains: G.S paper I: World History &amp; G.S paper II: International Affairs\u00a0<\/span><\/h1>\n<\/header>\n<\/section>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p><strong>Why in news?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u2022 France urged Israel to drop the West Bank annexation plan.<\/p>\n<p><b>Key highlights:<\/b><\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Israel had previously set July 1 as the starting date for his plan to annex the Jordan Valley and some other settlements in the West Bank.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 The French President reiterated France\u2019s commitment to peace in the Middle East and asked Israel to refrain from taking any measure to annex Palestinian territories.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 The French President mentioned that such a move by Israel would be against international law and would jeopardize the possibility of a two-state solution and the establishment of a fair and lasting peace between Israelis and Palestinians.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/atalayar.com\/sites\/default\/files\/inline-images\/Atalayar_Mapa%20de%20Israel%20y%20Cisjordania.jpg\" alt=\"The Israeli annexation of part of the West Bank is &quot;a vision of ...\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b>What is the Israel-Palestine Conflict?<\/b><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.slideplayer.com\/37\/10753968\/slides\/slide_7.jpg\" alt=\"Israeli-Palestinian Conflict Unit 4, Lesson 5. 1.Turn in the ...\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u2022 The conflict traces its root to 1917 but the major conflict was after the Mideast War, 1967.It is also known as the six-day war or Third Arab-Israeli war.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Israel captured the West Bank, East Jerusalem and Gaza Strip in the war. The Palestinians seek these territories for a future independent state.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 In the decades since, Israel has built settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem that now house nearly 700,000 Israelis.<br \/>\nMost of the international communities consider these settlements a violation of international law and obstacles to peace.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-E_mt2SEzVDg\/Wiu2KhpldXI\/AAAAAAAACKA\/pAFKmog8G3ooONPqPPLYTX15EDrjQ1n0wCLcBGAs\/s1600\/israel-map-of-palestinian-control.png\" alt=\"Explainer: Is Jerusalem the Capital of Israel or Not? - Political ...\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b>Where is West Bank Located?<\/b><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/5312\/13815481544_79d986cfa1.jpg\" alt=\"Map israel gaza palestine | Mrunal org | Flickr\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u2022 It is located to the west of the Jordan River. It is a landlocked territory, bordered by Jordan to the east and Israel to the south, west, and north.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 It is a patch of land about one and a half times the size of Goa, was captured by Jordan after the 1948 Arab-Israeli War. Israel captured it during the Six-Day War of 1967 and has occupied it ever since.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 According to the Oslo Accords between the Israeli government and the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) during the 1990s, part of the West Bank came under the control of the Palestinian Authority.<\/p>\n<p><b>Gaza Strip:<\/b><\/p>\n<p>\u2022 The Gaza Strip is a small territory along the Mediterranean coast between Egypt and Israel.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Palestine has staked claim to both the territories i.e. West Bank and Gaza Strip. But Israel\u2019s objective has been to keep expanding Jewish settlements in these regions.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Relevance: Prelims\/Mains: G.S paper I: World History &amp; G.S paper II: International Affairs\u00a0 Why in news? \u2022 France urged Israel<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3530,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[123],"tags":[392],"class_list":["post-8951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs","tag-union-public-service-commission-upsc"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8951","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8951"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8951\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8952,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8951\/revisions\/8952"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}