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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 doesnāt say what the anti-Israel countries think it states. Those people claim that the wording of 242 calls for Israel to withdraw from ātheāterritories (the =all) taken during the Six-Day War. The Resolution actually says that āIsrael should withdraw from territoriesā taken during the war (no ātheā =some).
It was no accident that ātheā was left out. Diplomats are very exact in their language. During the negotiations to create Resolution 242, Arab governments tried three times to have ātheā 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:
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UN 242 For Anti-Israel Dummies
The UN Resolution Some Countries Will Incorrectly Cite After The Warwww.jewishpress.com
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An image recently posted to Twitter glorifying Yahya Ayyash (the 'Engineer'), a Hamas mass murderer who masterminded a wave of suicide bombings that killed and wounded hundreds of Israelis. The image shows Ayyash's face superimposed over an Israeli bus that was blown up by a Palestinian suicide bomber in the 1990's.
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