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The Arab-Israeli Boundary Problem

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 July 2011

Lewis M. Alexander
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One of the most volatile political frontiers in the world today is that which separates Israel from her Arab neighbors. Laid down in 1949 along cease-fire lines, this border has remained closed to all traffic since that time—a symbol of the continued bitterness between the two peoples.

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Research Article
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World Politics , Volume 6 , Issue 3 , April 1954 , pp. 322 - 337
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Copyright © Trustees of Princeton University 1954

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References

1 For complete texts of the Armistice Agreements, see the following publications of the United Nations Security Council, Lake Success, New York, Official Records, Fourth Year:

S1296, “Cablegram dated 22 March 1949 from the Acting Mediator to the Secretary General transmitting the text of an Armistice Agreement between Lebanon and Israel.”

S/1264, “Corrigendum to Cablegram dated 23 February 1949 from the Acting Mediator to the Secretary General transmitting the text of an Armistice Agreement between Egypt and Israel.”

Special Supplement No. 1, Document S/1264, “Cablegram dated 3 April 1949 from the United Nations Acting Mediator to the Secretary General transmitting the text of the General Armistice Agreement between the Hashemite Jordan Kingdom and Israel.”

Special Supplement No. 2, Document S/1302/Rev. 1, “Communication dated 20 July 1949 from the United Nations Acting Mediator on Palestine to the Acting Secretary General transmitting the text of the General Armistice Agreement between Israel and Syria.”

2 See Lowdermilk, Walter C., Palestine, Land of Promise, New York, 1944.Google Scholar

3 The area of Arab land involved in this dispute totaled less than seven acres.

4 The Israeli Communist Party, whose membership is drawn largely from among the Arab population of that country, has adopted a platform calling for return to the 1947 borders and resettlement of the Arab refugees in Israel.