The year 2017 was important for the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, commemorating both the centennial of the Balfour Declaration and the fiftieth anniversary of the 1967 war. That war, which resulted in Israel's defeat of three Arab armies and its occupation of the West Bank, Gaza Strip, the Sinai Peninsula, and the Golan Heights, transformed the politics of the Middle East. According to UN Security Council Resolution 242, issued in November 1967, the occupation was illegal: Israel would have to withdraw from the territories it occupied if it were to achieve peace with its neighbors. In international law, military occupations are temporary by definition. Israel, however, only returned the Sinai to Egypt in 1982. (One year prior, it unilaterally annexed the Golan Heights from Syria.) Despite a twenty-five-year-long political process initiated in 1993, Israel's occupation of the West Bank and Gaza has continued unabated.

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了解以色列占领巴勒斯坦土地 50 年

2017 年对巴以冲突很重要，同时纪念了《贝尔福宣言》一百周年和 1967 年战争五十周年。这场战争导致以色列击败三支阿拉伯军队并占领约旦河西岸、加沙地带、西奈半岛和戈兰高地，改变了中东的政治。根据 1967 年 11 月发布的联合国安理会第 242 号决议，占领是非法的：如果以色列要与邻国实现和平，就必须撤出其占领的领土。在国际法中，军事占领根据定义是暂时的。然而，以色列直到 1982 年才将西奈半岛归还给埃及。（一年前，它单方面从叙利亚吞并了戈兰高地。