{"id":10677,"date":"2009-09-13T05:13:20","date_gmt":"2009-09-13T13:13:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=10677"},"modified":"2009-09-13T05:13:20","modified_gmt":"2009-09-13T13:13:20","slug":"why-is-it-called-the-green-line","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=10677","title":{"rendered":"Why Is It Called &#8216;The Green Line&#8217;?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Because the area Israel controls is covered with green while the land outside of Israel is mainly desert. This is true morally, culturally and physically.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Green_Line_%28Israel%29\">Wikipedia says<\/a>: The term <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Green_Line\" title=\"Green Line\">Green Line<\/a><\/strong> is used to refer to the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/1949_Armistice_Agreements\" title=\"1949 Armistice Agreements\">1949 Armistice lines<\/a> established between <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Israel\" title=\"Israel\">Israel<\/a> and its neighbours (<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Egypt\" title=\"Egypt\">Egypt<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jordan\" title=\"Jordan\">Jordan<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lebanon\" title=\"Lebanon\">Lebanon<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Syria\" title=\"Syria\">Syria<\/a>) after the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/1948_Arab-Israeli_War\" title=\"1948 Arab-Israeli War\" class=\"mw-redirect\">1948 Arab-Israeli War<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hebrew_University\" title=\"Hebrew University\" class=\"mw-redirect\">Hebrew University<\/a> Geographer Ilan Salomon, the Green Line can be discerned via satellite, marked by the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jewish_National_Fund\" title=\"Jewish National Fund\">Jewish National Fund<\/a> pine forests planted to demarcate Israeli space.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Because the area Israel controls is covered with green while the land outside of Israel is mainly desert. This is true morally, culturally and physically. Wikipedia says: The term Green Line is used to refer to the 1949 Armistice lines &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=10677\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[18891,18890,884,18892,18894,18893],"class_list":["post-10677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-israel","tag-1949-armistice-lines","tag-arab-israeli-war","tag-hebrew-university","tag-israel-controls","tag-jewish-national-fund","tag-pine-forests"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10677"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10677\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10678,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10677\/revisions\/10678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}