There's been a lot of talk recently about the lines of 1967,
most of it not helpful, and some of it vague. Politicians,
journalists, pundits, bloggers and most everyone else much
prefer generalities to particulars. Here's an attempt to be
specific and grounded. CIA World Factbook) The original line was
drawn in 1949 during the armistice talks between Israel and
Jordan. They mostly reflected the reality of military positions
at the end of the war of 1948, but with one major change. The
Israelis, fearing that the extreme narrowness of their country
would repeatedly entice their neighbors to attack it, demanded
that a strip of land along the northwestern edge of the
Jordanian-held West Bank be handed over to them, in return for
an area to the west of Hebron. The area, known till this day in
Israel as The Triangle, contained a series of Arab villages,
from Um el-Fachem at its north-east down to Kfar Kassem at the
south-west. The Americans demanded that Israel promise not to
force any of the villagers out of their