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unusual facts about 1949 Armistice Agreements


Revisionist Zionism

Revisionists considered the subsequent partition of Palestine following the 1949 Armistice Agreements to have no legitimacy.


Bnot Ya'akov Bridge

The Syrians captured the bridge on June 11, 1948, during the 1948 Palestine war, but later withdrew as a result of the 1949 Armistice Agreements between Israel and Syria.

Mediterranean–Dead Sea Canal

The idea was discussed at some length by Willy Ley in Engineers' Dreams, but it was then politically impractical; even the route west of Jordan would have to cross the 1949 armistice line twice.

Rosh HaNikra grottoes

Rosh Hanikra was the location where Israeli and Lebanese officials negotiated and concluded an armistice agreement in 1949 which ended the Lebanese-Israeli component of the 1948 War of Israeli Independence.

United Nations Security Council Resolution 228

The Council deplored the loss of life and property and censured Israel for this violation of the United Nations Charter and of the General Armistice Agreement.


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