The Jordan River lies between the countries of Jordan and Israel. The river also borders Syria, Lebanon, and the Israeli-occupied West Bank. The river flows into the Dead Sea, which claims the ...

The Golan Heights is recognized by the international community — except the US and Israel — as Israeli-occupied territory ...

Israel could seize an opportunity to re-imagine the two-state solution, potentially east of the Jordan River. Israel Katz, the newly appointed Defense Minister, has wasted no time in addressing ...

Among Israel’s recent violations of Syrian sovereignty, which include hundreds of air attacks, is its renewed encroachment ...

Religious Zionist politician Uri Ariel said in 2014, “Between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea there will be only one state, which is Israel.” Netanyahu, who also opposes ...

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Jacob was renamed Israel when God appeared to him when he ... tribes settled a different region on either side of the Jordan River. During a later period, a monarchy was established, but with ...

demarcates the international boundary between Israel and Jordan as the Jordan River. Under Article 2, each party recognized and agreed to respect each other’s sovereign territorial integrity and ...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says he is planning to effectively annex parts of the occupied West Bank in what would be a major - and highly controversial - act. It is a chunk of land ...

If Israel accepts this proposal, then the United States and other nations should rightly support such a union.