Quotes About Territory

At Camp David in 2000, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak offered the Palestinian leader Yasir Arafat 94 percent of the West Bank; ten years later, Ehud Olmert offered Abbas 93.6 percent with a one-to-one land swap.

Israeli governments cling to the two-state notion because it seems to reflect the sentiments of the Jewish Israeli majority, and it shields the country from international opprobrium even as it camouflages relentless efforts to expand Israel's territory into the West Bank.

Israel never meant to take over the West Bank and Gaza - it got stuck with them after the 1967 war.

Israel reoccupied the cities of the West Bank by a unilateral action, and reestablished the civil and military occupation by a unilateral action, and it is the one that determines whether or not a Palestinian citizen has the right to reside in any part of the Palestinian Territory.

The West Bank is essentially imprisoned.

In 1862, Abraham Lincoln signed the Homestead Act, a bill opening one half million square miles of territory in the western United States for settlement.

The nation did not begin to realize the extraordinary possibilities of the vast Western territory until its attention was thus suddenly and definitely concentrated on the Pacific by the annual addition of over fifty million dollars to the circulating medium.

There are but few naval powers, but there are many land powers.

Russia has gone way beyond its legal powers to use bases in the Crimea.

Why four great powers should fight over Serbia no fellow can understand.

Israel expanded beyond its original boundaries only because the Arab powers attacked Israel and the U.N. demarcation unsuccessfully in 1948. The endless caterwauling about the 1967 borders is rubbish.

All the historical pretenders to global power originated in Eurasia.

I have an easy way to explain the war. It's a Croatian defending his country and a Serb attacking a Croatian country. With anyone who has a problem with understanding what's going on, that is the easiest way to understand it.

There are several areas where the border is not completely defined and demarcated.

My father was a salesman in Delhi and used to go around Rajasthan, Haryana and Uttar Pradesh for work.

I don't see any difference between Judea and Samaria and the rest of the country.

That's what we're taught to do in Britain - you protect your castle.

The dog barking at you from behind his master's fence acts for a motive indistinguishable from that of his master when the fence was built.

Fifty percent of our country that we own, have all legal jurisdiction, have all rights to do whatever we want, lies beneath the sea and we have better maps of Mars than that 50 percent.

Traveling through Fog Looking back, we cannot see, except for its blurring lights like underwater stars and moons, our starting-place. Behind us, beyond us now is phantom territory, a world abstract as memories of earth the traveling dead take home. Between obscuring cloud and cloud, the cloudy dark ensphering us seems all we can be certain of. Is Plato's cave.

There was too little space for their own—and they guarded their own as all Chinese had done from the earliest dynasties.

Perl doesn't have an infatuation with enforced privacy. It would prefer that you stayed out of its living room because you weren't invited, not because it has a shotgun

We'd put a big sign over our territory saying, Nothing here is worth dying over, but if you insist, we will fucking kill you.

he became King of Portugal, King of Naples, King of Sicily, the Duke of Milan