2166: Green Line, Purple Line, Blue Line Nov 19, 2020

The borders of Israel have been established with the so called Green Line (1948) and Purple Line (1967). Many people believe that the Green Line was named because of natural barriers from trees and other plants that separated Israel and Jordan and Lebanon etc. but actually it was just because it was made with a pen with green ink drawn onto the map. Likewise, the Purple Line defining the Syrian-Israeli armistice border and Blue Line defining Lebanese-Israeli border, all officially named as such, were done so in reference to the UN maps and UN itself respectively.