States often said to exhibit crony capitalism include the People's Republic of China ; India, especially up to the early 1990s when manufacturing was strictly controlled by the government ( the " Licence Raj "); Indonesia ; Argentina ; Brazil ; United Kingdom ; Malaysia ; Israel ; Russia ; the United States ; Tasmania ; and most other ex-Eastern Bloc states.

For example, whilst the Israel Central Bureau of Statistics defines the area of Israel to include the annexed East Jerusalem and Golan Heights and to exclude the militarily controlled regions of the West Bank and Gaza Strip, it defines the population of Israel to also include Israeli settlers living in the West Bank.

The entire area of the West Bank and Gaza, previously annexed by Jordan and occupied by Egypt respectively, was controlled by Israel from the 1967 war until August 2005, when Israel withdrew from Gaza.

However, Israel has settled hundreds of thousands of its citizens in various Israeli controlled settlements in the West Bank.

Its capital was moved to Acre and controlled most of the coastline of present day Israel and southern and central Lebanon, including the strongholds and towns of Jaffa, Arsuf, Caesarea, Tyre, Sidon, and Beirut.

Following the war, 75 % of the area west of the Jordan River was controlled by the new State of Israel.

The targets were Mohammad Yusuf al-Najjar ( Abu Yusuf ), head of Fatah's intelligence arm, which ran Black September, according to Morris ; Kamal Adwan, who headed the PLO's so-called Western Sector, which controlled PLO action inside Israel ; and Kamal Nassir, the PLO spokesman.

The proposals include the Gaza Strip, which is currently controlled by the Hamas faction of the Palestinian National Authority, the West Bank, which is administered by the Fatah faction of the Palestinian National Authority, and East Jerusalem which is controlled by Israel under a claim of sovereignty.

Egypt took control of the narrow Gaza Strip, while Israel controlled the rest of the western Palestine of the British Mandate.

December: Israel launches Operation Cast Lead against the Hamas controlled Gaza Strip, a full scale invasion of the territory.

As part of the Old City, controlled by Israel since 1967, both Israel and the Palestinian Authority claim sovereignty over the site, which remains a major focal point of the Arab-Israeli conflict.

During the 1967 Six-Day War Israel captured the Temple Mount together with all of East Jerusalem and the West Bank from Jordan, who had controlled it since 1948.

Additional to territorial concessions, Palestinian airspace would be controlled by Israel under Barak's offer.

Luria died at Safed, Ottoman Empire controlled Land of Israel, July 25, 1572 ( 5 Av 5332 ).

Black sold the Post to CanWest Global Communications Corp, controlled by Israel Asper, in two stages – 50 % in 2000, along with the entire Southam newspaper chain, and the remaining 50 % in 2001.

The main investor in the complex is the Plaza Centers Group, which ( according to its website ) is a member of the Europe Israel Group controlled by founder Mordechay Zisser.

The result ensured that the Upper Galilee, originally slated by the United Nations partition plan to be part of the Arab state, would be controlled by the newly formed state of Israel, and that more than 50, 000 new Palestinian refugees would leave for Lebanon.

As Russia switched to supporting the Arabs against Israel, Yockey believed an alliance between Soviet Communism and the extreme Right could ( and should ) be advanced to weaken the strategic position of the United States, which he believed was controlled by Zionist Jews.

The United States further noted that the consent of Israel would be required since it effectively controlled Jerusalem.

The city is located northeast of Gaza and the Mediterranean Sea, west of Amman, Jordan, southeast of Tel Aviv, Israel and south of Jerusalem.

* 1987 – An Israeli army tank transporter kills four Palestinian refugees and injures seven others during a traffic accident at the Erez Crossing on the Israel – Gaza Strip border, sparking the First Intifada.

The country borders Libya to the west, the Gaza Strip and Israel to the east, and Sudan to the south.

The northern third of Sinai is a flat, sandy coastal plain, which extends from the Suez Canal into the Gaza Strip and Israel.

In 2007, relations between the two have thawed in the fields of diplomacy and economic trade, only to collapse during the 2008 – 2009 Israel – Gaza conflict when the Iranian and Egyptian politicians exchanged blames over inaction towards the escalation.

However, Eritrea condemned Israeli military action during the 2008 – 2009 Israel – Gaza conflict.

The Gaza Strip (, ) is a strip of land on the Eastern coast of the Mediterranean Sea that borders Egypt on the southwest ( 11 km ) and Israel on the east and north ().

Israel captured and occupied the Gaza Strip in the Six-Day War in 1967.

Israel unilaterally disengaged from Gaza in 2005.

After the cessation of hostilities, the Israel-Egypt Armistice Agreement of 24 February 1949 established the separation line between Egyptian and Israeli forces, and established what became the present boundary between the Gaza Strip and Israel.

The population of the Gaza Strip had been greatly augmented by an influx of Palestinian refugees who fled from Israel before and during the fighting.

In total Israel created 21 settlements in the Gaza Strip, comprising 20 % of the total territory.

The final status of the Gaza Strip, and other relations between Israel and Palestinians, was not dealt with in the treaty.

To avoid allegations that it was still in occupation of any part of the Gaza Strip, Israel also withdrew from the Philadelphi Route, which is a narrow strip adjacent to the Strip's border with Egypt, after Egypt's agreement to secure its side of the border.

However, Israel maintained its control over the crossings in and out of Gaza.

Between 1994 and 1996, Israel built the Israeli Gaza Strip barrier to improve security in Israel.

Under the DOP, Israel agreed to recognize the West Bank and the Gaza Strip as a " Single Territorial Unit " as well as to transfer certain powers and responsibilities to the Palestinian Authority, which includes the Palestinian Legislative Council elected in January 1996, as part of the interim self-governing arrangements in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip.

The Treasury Department subsequently stated that the country of origin markings of goods from the West Bank and Gaza shall not contain the words " Israel ", " Made in Israel ", " Occupied Territories-Israel ", or words of similar meaning.

In August 2005, the Israel Defense Forces and Israeli police forcibly removed all settlers from the Gaza Strip.

A narrow definition would take in roughly the same area as the modern states of Israel, the West Bank, the Gaza Strip, and Jordan, while a wider definition would include Syria.

In the wake of the Israeli invasion of Gaza in January 2009, Hamas has been accused of systematically rounding up, torturing and summarily executing Fatah supporters suspected of supplying information to Israel.

During the period of Israeli control, Israel created a settlement bloc, Gush Katif, in the southwest corner of the Strip near Rafah and the Egyptian border.

Settlements also existed in the Sinai and Gaza Strip until Israel evacuated the Sinai settlements following the 1979 Israel-Egypt peace agreement and unilaterally disengaged from the Gaza Strip in 2005.

Israel dismantled 18 settlements in the Sinai Peninsula in 1982, and all 21 in the Gaza Strip and 4 in the West Bank in 2005, but continues to both expand its settlements and settle new areas in the West Bank in spite of the Oslo Accords which barred both Israeli and Palestinians from undertaking unilateral actions that would alter the status quo.

De facto, the Palestinian government administers the parts of the West Bank that Israel has granted it authority over from Ramallah, while the Gaza Strip is administered from Gaza.