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Map of Israeli-Egyptian Separation of Forces Agreement, January 1974

For Sadat, who had gone to war against Israel three months earlier, securing a military disengagement agreement was important. In addition, diplomatically engaging the US to secure the agreement meant entrenching Washington as a friend of Egypt. The US embraced the opportunity to quell tensions between Israel and Egypt, while squiring Cairo away from decades of Moscow’s embrace. Israel had its POWs returned and slowly tested Sadat’s broader intentions toward Jerusalem.

Maps of Israel|January 1974

Map of Golan Heights After Israeli-Syrian Separation of Forces Agreement, May 1974

In the last days of the June 1967 War Israel secured a portion of the Syrian Golan Heights, estimated at 1300 sq km or 500 sq mi; Israel forces sit some 40 miles, 60km from Damascus. Before the June War, Israeli villages and populations in the valley were fired upon by Syrian forces from the Heights. In addition to being an important catchment for Jordan River waters which helps supply Israel’s water needs, the heights contain not fully explored hydrocarbon sources. In the northern Heights is Mt. Hermon which has strategic value for observing military movements into southern Lebanon and to Damascus.

Maps of Israel|May 1974

Map of Egyptian-Israeli Peace Treaty, March 1979

To test Egypt’s intentions, Israel took eight years, from January 1974 to April 1982, to withdraw from virtually all of Sinai.

Maps of Israel|March 26, 1979

Map of Jerusalem’s Old City, 1988

The Old City of Jerusalem is divided into four religious quarters: Armenian, Christian, Jewish and Muslim areas. The overall population of the Old City is 34,000, 11 percent of whom are Jews. Jews account for 59 percent of the population of the Old City’s Jewish Quarter and 49 percent of the Armenian Quarter.

Maps of Israel|1988

Map of Israeli Settlements on the Golan Heights, July 1989

After Israel secured the Golan Heights in the June 1967 War, the Israeli government offered to negotiate its return, some 1300 km, for a peace treaty with Israel. Israel withdrew from a small portion of the Heights after the 1973 War. It continued to build Israeli settlements in strategic locations and in 1981 applied Israeli law to the area. Some 20,000 Israelis live there in 32 settlements, along with 20,000 Druze.

Maps of Israel|July 1989

Map of Israeli West Bank Settlements, January 2005

As an unintended consequence of the June 1967 War, Israel found itself controlling the entire West Bank of the Jordan River, amounting to 2,300 square miles with 680,000 Palestinian living in 396 villages, towns and in portions of Jerusalem. From 1976 forward, the US and the international community in general have labelled the settlements as either“illegal” or as an “obstacle to peace.” The growth of the settlements or their expansion has occurred in a spatial manner that places Israeli settler populations in between Arab villages and towns in order to limit or prevent Arab contiguity in the West Bank.

Maps of Israel|January 2005

Map of Jewish Settlements in Gaza, August 2005

From 1977 to 1979, the settler population in the territories grew from 3,200 to 17,500, plus 80,000 in East Jerusalem. Of the 225,000 Israel settlers in the “territories” in 2005, all 8,500 settlers living in Gaza (5% of the total) were evacuated with the area turned over to the Palestinian Authority. In 2006, Hamas won Palestinian legislative elections, and in 2007 the terrorist group conducted a coup and ousted the Palestinian Authority from Gaza.

Maps of Israel|August 2005