ELI HERTZ: NO RETURN TO THE 1967 BORDERS
Eban, a lifetime dove, vowed:
“With Syrians on the mountain and we in the valley, with the Jordanian army in sight of the sea, with the Egyptians … hold[ing] our throat in their hands in Gaza. This is a situation which will never be repeated in history.” [emphasis added]
In the aftermath of the 1967 Six-Day War, after three Arab armies converged on Israel’s nightmarish borders, even the United Nations was forced to recognize that Israel’s pre-1967 Six-Day War borders invited repeated aggression. Thus, UN Resolution 242 – which formed the conceptual foundation for a peace settlement – declares that all states in the region should be guaranteed “safe and secure borders.”
President Lyndon B. Johnson, in an address on September 10, 1968, declared:
“We [The United States] are not the ones to say where other nations should draw the lines between them that will assure each the greatest security.”
“It is clear, however, that a return to the situation of June 4, 1967, will not bring peace. There must be secure and there must be recognized borders.” [emphasis added]
(59 Department of State Bulletin 348 [1968] )
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