Why does the Green Line matter in international discussions of borders?
Answer and explanation
Correct answer: C. It is the 1949 armistice line, the usual reference for the 1967 lines
- Step 1: The Green Line comes from the 1949 armistice agreements. Step 2. The 1967 lines in diplomacy usually refer to this same line. Answer: the 1949 armistice line. Why not the others: partition, Mandate and Oslo lines differ from the line that fighting stopped on in 1949.
Practise more Palestinian History and Politics.
Free questions with an explanation for every one, and full timed Palestinian General Knowledge mock tests.
More Palestinian History and Politics questions
- Which empire ruled the region of Palestine from 1517 until the end of the First World War?
- Which power governed Palestine under a League of Nations mandate from the early 1920s until 1948?
- In which year did the Balfour Declaration express British support for a Jewish national home in Palestine?
- What was the name given by Palestinians to the 1948 displacement and dispossession, meaning catastrophe in Arabic?
- On which date is Nakba Day commemorated each year?
- Which United Nations General Assembly resolution of 29 November 1947 proposed partitioning Palestine into Arab and Jewish states?