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B. Before a 1967 war, Jordan controlled East Jerusalem and the West Bank of the Jordan River. Israel is bordered to the north by Lebanon, northeast by Syria, east by Jordan and the West Bank, south by Egypt and the Gaza Strip and west by the Mediterranean Sea.
C. Palestinians are Arab descendants of people who have lived in historic Palestine for centuries and still live in the West Bank and Gaza Strip territories captured by Israel in 1967. Separate states for Arabs and Israelis have long been proposed as part of a permanent peace settlement in the region.
A. Buddhism is a Dharmic religion, among the faiths that originated on the Indian subcontinent. It is related to Hinduism, Jainism and Sikhism. A little more than half of the world’s people are adherents to the Abrahamic religions which originated in the Middle East.
D. There are about 20 million people in the Cairo metro area where Arab foreign ministers called on the UN Security Council to condemn Trump’s decision. Many said the decision means the U.S. can no longer claim to be a neutral peacemaker in the Middle East.