Does the 1967 UN Resolution require Israel to withdraw to its pre-1967 borders?
“The resolution [242] was a masterpiece of deliberate British ambiguity. It was this ambiguity that won for the resolution the support of the United States, the Soviet Union, Jordan, and Egypt but not of Syria. Israel had many successes on the long road that led to its adoption. It defeated a series of Arab and Soviet proposals that called for withdrawal without peace. Another success was to avoid the requirement of withdrawing from ‘the territories’ or ‘all the territories’ occupied in the recent war. The final wording was ‘withdrawal from territories,’ and this gave Israel some room for maneuvering.
