Resolution 242

The Palestinians’ Dubious UN Move

It is a strategy that will ultimately backfire for it will remind key players in the international community that the Palestinian Authority does not want a negotiated peace with Israel, leading the U.S. and even the EU to question why they should continue to invest in it at all.  Read More »

The Settlements Issue: Distorting the Geneva Convention and the Oslo Accords

The Misleading Interpretation of UN Security Council Resolution 242

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The Palestinians Resurrect the Partition Plan

But if his U.N. speech is taken together with the language of the letter that he submitted, it is clear that Abbas aspires to a Palestinian state on the 1967 lines, without conceding his “rights” to the territories that he insists were allocated to the Palestinians under Resolution 181.  Read More »

Erekat’s Deceptive Numbers Game

This September. Israel’s struggle at the U.N. is not only about Palestinian statehood, but rather about Israel’s rights not to be forced back to the pre-1967 lines, which were once enshrined by the U.N., but are now facing a full assault.  Read More »

The Principles of Peacemaking

The Plight of the Refugees and Resolution 242

The Territorial Clauses of Security Council Resolution 242

Security Council Resolution 242: An Analysis of its Main Provisions

Contextualizing Resolution 242

Introduction: Correcting the Record on Resolution 242

Israel’s Right to Secure Boundaries: Four Decades Since
UN Security Resolution 242: Preface