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Israel-Palestine: Israel-Palestine: The Kyl–Bingaman Amendment (KBA) was introduced in 1997 and restricted the quality of satellite images of Israel American companies were allowed to commercially publish. Images of the Palestinian territories were restricted as well despite not being explicitly referred to in the ruling.
The White Paper of 1939 [note 1] was a policy paper issued by the British government, led by Neville Chamberlain, in response to the 1936–1939 Arab revolt in Palestine. [2] After its formal approval in the House of Commons on 23 May 1939, [ 3 ] [ note 2 ] it acted as the governing policy for Mandatory Palestine from 1939 to the 1948 British ...
The Babylonian Map of the World (also Imago Mundi or Mappa mundi) is a Babylonian clay tablet with a schematic world map and two inscriptions written in the Akkadian language. Dated to no earlier than the 9th century BC (with a late 8th or 7th century BC date being more likely), it includes a brief and partially lost textual description.
Image:Map of USA-bw.png – Black and white outlines for states, for the purposes of easy coloring of states. Image:BlankMap-USA-states.PNG – US states, grey and white style similar to Vardion's world maps. Image:Map of USA with county outlines.png – Grey and white map of USA with county outlines.
Map of the USA showing borders of states and counties. Adapted by Wapcaplet from a public-domain map courtesy of the U.S. Census Bureau website. Date: 25 September 2006: Source: en:File:Map of USA with county outlines.png: Author
The leader of Palestine's Jews, David Ben-Gurion, issued a call for Jews to "support the British as if there is no White Paper and oppose the White Paper as if there is no war". [12] During the war, Palestinian Jews volunteered in large numbers to serve in the British Army , serving mainly in North Africa.
For months, Israel has faced accusations it used white phosphorus indiscriminately on a town near the Israel-Lebanon border. The allegations were at the center of an investigation this past ...
When many Zionists took the letter as a withdrawal of the white paper, it became labelled the 'black letter' by Palestinians. This was despite the fact that Prime Minister said in parliament on 11 February 1931 that he was "very unwilling to give the letter the same status as the dominating document" i.e. the Passfield White Paper.