Green Line
demarcation line set out in the 1949 Armistice Agreements between Israel and Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon and Syria after the 1948 Arab–Israeli War; de facto borders of Israel from 1949 until the Six-Day War in 1967
Episodes
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#5530: Jerusalem's Pencil Line: 1948–1967Two commanders drew a ceasefire line in wax pencil in 1948. It became a city's border for nineteen years.Main topic -
#5496: Taking Down Jerusalem's 7km Border, Street by StreetBarbed wire, minefields, and a wax-pencil line: how Jerusalem's seven-kilometre border was physically torn down after 1967.Main topic -
#5495: Musrara: Growing Up on Jerusalem's Pencil-Drawn BorderHow a border drawn with wax pencils in 1948 split Musrara's homes in two — and shaped the neighborhood that raised the Israeli Black Panthers.Main topic -
#5686: What Arab Israelis Actually Say About IdentitySame population, same year, wildly different numbers — why the Arab Israeli identity polling keeps contradicting itself. -
#5685: East Jerusalem's Residency Trap: What 300,000 People Actually WantA third of East Jerusalem's residents hold residency, not citizenship. What the polling says about identity surprises almost everyone. -
#5531: Crayon Lines and Custom Posts: How Border Precision Creates AbsurdityA wax pencil drawn across a 1948 map became Jerusalem's binding border. Ghajar's line is precise but unmarked. What makes a border real? -
#5180: Egypt's Gaza and Israel's Jerusalem: Two Legal SuspensionsEgypt ruled Gaza for 19 years without annexing it. Israel applied full law to East Jerusalem in 1967. Two occupied places, two very different legal...