Subject: Re: [BoundaryPoint] Re: Jerusalem
Date: Mar 11, 2005 @ 12:19
Author: Jesper Nielsen ("Jesper Nielsen" <jesniel@...>)
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Also thanks from me.
 
What kind of access is there to these Noman's lands?
 
http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/we.html
 
Jesper
----- Original Message -----
From: L. A. Nadybal
To: BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Friday, March 04, 2005 2:46 AM
Subject: [BoundaryPoint] Re: Jerusalem


Super details.  Narrows down the Soviet map extremely well.
Thanks
LN


--- In BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, "Martin Pratt" <m.a.pratt@d...>
wrote:
> The lines on the Soviet map at
> http://sunsite.berkeley.edu:8085/israel/50k/08-36-011-3.jpg represent
> the limits of Israeli and Jordanian territorial control under the
> General Armistice Agreement (GAA) of April 1949; these lines were
> described as Armistice Demarcation Lines (ADLs). A couple of weeks after
> the GAA was signed, the military commanders of the Israeli and Jordanian
> armies proposed closing the gap between the two lines in and around
> Jerusalem and establishing a single ADL. The proposal was implemented to
> the northwest and southwest of Jerusalem, but the King of Jordan refused
> to authorise the establishment of a single line through Jerusalem
> itself.
>
> So the Soviet map shows the ADLs only as they existed between 3 and 25
> April 1949, except between northings 15 and 22 (approx) where the
> original double GAA lines plus no-man's land remained in place until
> June 1967. Israel subsequently annexed East Jerusalem and the ADLs are
> virtually (but not completely) invisible on the ground today. However,
> while they may be relict boundaries de facto, they still of considerable
> significance de jure, most notably in the context of UN Security Council
> Resolution 242 - which many commentators believe makes Israel's
> occupation of any territory it did not hold before 4 June 1967 illegal
> under international law.
>
> For an indication of where the ADLs were located following the April
> 1949 revision discussed above, see http://tinyurl.com/5nbzq.
>
> Regards,
>
> m a r t i n