By Gideon Biger
Boundary drawback is an important factor within the center East, and the limits marked out through the years 1840 to 1947 are nonetheless one of many significant matters in cutting-edge political discussions relating Israel and its surrounding international locations. This booklet, that is in accordance with wide archival study, bargains with the 1st level of the delimitation of the bounds of recent Palestine, among the years 1840 and 1947. in this interval, the limits of Palestine have been staked out by way of international, imperial forces (Britain, France and the Ottoman Empire) which positioned them in accordance with their wishes, with out contemplating neighborhood wishes or rules. For the 1st time, due to the attention-grabbing facts published in documents, this useful ebook unearths the hidden objectives; the reasons of other brokers; and the tales of these interested by the method in addition to the eventual final result in their paintings - the 1st delimitation of the Holy Land within the smooth period.
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The area of the modern towns of Rafah and El-Arish belong to Egypt, both as being an Ottoman province and as being a semiindependent unit, from Muhammad Ali’s time onwards. This borderline was never marked in reality, and it remained sketched only on maps. These maps, too, ‘disappeared’ a short time after being drawn. Nevertheless, this line had many territorial and political aspects relating to it. The area between Rafah and El-Arish with all its surrounding land was recognized as an area under Egyptian control, while the area that was under the Ottoman Empire’s direct control continues west to the top of the Gulf of Suez.
46 The allocation during World World I which was intended for this purpose. It lay west of the ‘Red Area’, south of the Yarmouk river, east of the Sea of Galilee and the Jordan line. The southern part of that area stretched from the 1906 line and Aqaba Bay eastward to the Persian Gulf through the Negev and the lands east of the Arava. The idea of creating a neutral zone around the holy sites led to the formation of an area that was supposed to be co-governed by Britain, France, Russia and Italy with representatives from the Arab world.
Palestine had not stretched beyond Khan-Yunes during the end of the eighteenth century and the beginning of the nineteenth. The area of the modern towns of Rafah and El-Arish belong to Egypt, both as being an Ottoman province and as being a semiindependent unit, from Muhammad Ali’s time onwards. This borderline was never marked in reality, and it remained sketched only on maps. These maps, too, ‘disappeared’ a short time after being drawn. Nevertheless, this line had many territorial and political aspects relating to it.