[SunkenCiv]

Note: this topic is from 04/06/2003. Thanks Asher.

[colorado tanker]

People need to understand this history. The West Bank was part of Jordan. Jordan conquered it during the Israeli War of Independence, contrary to the UN resolution awarding most of it to a to-be-formed Palestinian state.

When Jordan lost the West Bank to Israel in 1967, they just abandoned it. They never asked for it back.

The West Bank is not "occupied territory." The only nation-state with a claim to the territory was Jordan, which abandoned the claim.