No, the New U.S. Peace Plan Doesn’t Violate UN Resolutions
In fact, it’s the first to uphold the security concept of the UN’s foundational Resolution 242.
February 10, 2020
No, the New U.S. Peace Plan Doesn’t Violate UN Resolutions
In fact, it’s the first to uphold the security concept of the UN’s foundational Resolution 242.
In November 1967, the United Nations Security Council passed Resolution 242, cited in every subsequent peacemaking proposal, calling on Israel to withdraw from “territories occupied in the recent conflict.” The then-U.S. ambassador to the UN Arthur Goldberg has stated—as has his British counterpart, who drafted the resolution—that the text deliberately does not say “the territories” or “all the territories”; in other words, it emphatically did not demand a complete Israeli withdrawal. Thus, writes Evelyn Gordon, the oft-repeated claim that the recent American peace proposal violates UN resolutions is incorrect; to the contrary, it is the first to take Resolution 242 seriously:
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