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Right.One of the reasons the EU, Jordan, and other anti-Israel countries believe Israel. Has to return to the pre-1967 borders is the Resolution based on a General Assembly, The UN General Assembly. Firstly, unlike the Security Council, decisions taken by the General Assembly are not binding. More importantly, 242 doesn’t say what the anti-Israel countries think it states. Those people claim that the wording of 242 calls for Israel to withdraw from “the”territories (the =all) taken during the Six-Day War. The Resolution actually says that ‘Israel should withdraw from territories’ taken during the war (no “the” =some).
It was no accident that “the” was left out. Diplomats are very exact in their language. During the negotiations to create Resolution 242, Arab governments tried three times to have “the” inserted into the Resolution, and their request was rejected by the rest of the assembly. But, by repeating what they wanted the Resolution to say after 242 had passed years, the haters succeeded in convincing many people to accept their distorted interpretation.
However, if you read the statements of the drafters of the Resolution, there is no ambiguity about what they meant. Below are those statements by country and participant:
(full article online)
UN 242 For Anti-Israel Dummies
The UN Resolution Some Countries Will Incorrectly Cite After The Warwww.jewishpress.com