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OILYAWORD
AWAY FROM PEACE?
U.N. Security Council Resolution #242
Unanimo
by the
United Nations
Council
in November 1967,
tion
#
242 was meant
provide
guidelines for devisi a peace
formula to end the 1
Middle
East conflict. However, because
of its deliberately ambiguous
provisions, the resolution was
never implemented. The official
English translation (left) calls
for lsraeli withdrawal "from
territories" occupied during the
Six-Day War.
) reads
," since in
ible to omit the
contends
al/
occupied
therefore
necessarily i
d, while the
Arabs insist that it is. Despite over
six years of Arab-lsraeli dis–
agreement on the resolution's true
meaning, Resolution
#
242
remains, by broad diplomatic
agreement, the ambiguous founda–
tion upon which a permanent
peace is to be built.
sur les
probleme
PLAIN TRUTH February 1974