:No one has to. We have to provide reliable sources saying it, which has been done in spades.  I've suggested a compromise where we sidestep the issue with a sentence on the territorial claims. You don't like that either. Leading the article with a viewpoint unique to one country is prima facie NPOV; you and other editors disagree, hence the tag. And we need to deal with "In Israel" cats at some point if everyone hasn't smashed their computers after this is over =X