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C. The West Bank was annexed by Jordan after the 1948 Arab-Israeli War. Israel captured the West Bank in the 1967 Six-Day War and has controlled it ever since. About 2.6 million Arabs and 400,000 Israeli Jews now live in the West Bank. Israeli forces patrol the all the territory, and the Palestinian Authority administers the Arab areas.
D. Syria not recognized Israel as a legitimate state since it was established in 1948. Israeli and Syrian forces have fought wars in 1948, 1967 and 1973. Israel seized the Golan Height territory from Syria in 1967 and effectively annexed it in 1981.
A. The Egypt-Israel peace treaty was signed in 1979. Under the treaty, Israel withdrew from the Sinai Peninsula, which it had taken in the 1967 war. Israel also agreed to enter negotiations over an autonomy for Palestinians in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. In 1994, Jordan became the second Arab nation to make peace with Israel.
A. Britain conquered Palestine from the Ottoman Empire in World War I and administered the territory that includes what is now Israel, the West Bank and Gaza Strip under a League of Nations mandate starting in 1922. In 1947, the United Nations proposed partitioning the territory into Jewish and Arab areas. Arab leaders rejected the plan.