Where Is/Are Israel's Border/s?

I have been informed that the next Memory and Identity Working Group, of the University of California at Berkeley meeting will be on the subject: The History of the Map of Israel presented by Rachel Havrelock, University of Illinois, Chicago to take place on Monday November 14, 2011, 4:00 pm, 254 Barrows Hall.

An explanation:

What are the legitimate borders of Israel? Who should determine where they fall? When should the borders become permanent? These are just a few of the controversial questions that surround Israel's border disputes.

In this talk, Professor Rachel Havrelock explains how the existing borders came into being and the reasons why they are disputed. Religious traditions, the European creation of the modern Middle East, and the wars of the 20th century all contribute to the current as well as the proposed maps of the region. Accompanied by a power point presentation of historical maps, Havrelock will tell the stories behind the borders and show how, from biblical times to the present, many interpretations of the map of Israel have coexisted.

This event is co-sponsored by the Near Eastern Studies Department, the Jewish Studies Program, and the Townsend Center for the Humanities and is part of the Memory and Identity Working Group lecture series. Memory and Identity Working Group meetings are designed to encourage dialogue across the department's diverse traditions.

Now, if you are thinking that Israel will be staunchly defended, think again:

Rachel Havrelock is a scholar of the Hebrew Bible and its interpretation...Rachel began her graduate work at Tel Aviv and Bir Zeit Universities, continuing and completing it in the Joint Doctoral Program in Jewish Studies at the University of California, Berkeley and the Graduate Theological Union.
...Rachel is...the author of "The Two Maps of Israel's Land," Journal of Biblical Literature 126:4 (2007): 649-667; "My Home is Over Jordan: River as Border in Israeli and Palestinian National Mythology," National Identities 9:2 (2007): 105-126;...

Rachel is completing River Jordan: The Mythic History of a Dividing Line, a manuscript that considers the Jordan River as a border in the Bible, in Rabbinic and Patristic exegesis and in Jewish and Palestinian nationalisms.

She has written and directed hip-hop plays, From Tel Aviv to Ramallah and Soundtrack City...

In that "play", she promotes the idea about Israel's border that

a dividing line. The dividing line in question is the Green Line, a militarized boundary that separates Israel from the occupied Palestinian West Bank.

Oh, oh.

She is also known as a 'mythbuster'.

Oh, oh, oh.

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