Israel must withdraw behind the 1967 borders? expressed
While Israel's willingness to compromise in the course of peace negotiations, there are still those (who from the Gaza Strip, Israel has already withdrawn voluntarily) on the complete end of all Jewish presence in the West Bank, and on a full Return to the armistice lines of 1948 erratic insist that existed before the Six-Day War of 1967.
There are no provisions in any of the agreements signed between Israel and the Palestinians, a withdrawal behind the border lines demand of 1967. There are no geographical imperatives that the 1967 lines holy. Certainly there is no logic in it to anchor an unintended boundary line that existed less than 19 years. The boundaries of the West Bank of 4 June 1967 were not based on historical facts, natural geographical formations, demographic considerations or international agreement.
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67-limit lines rather based on the armistice lines were drawn based on the position of the army after the independence war of 1948. contained Accordingly, the ceasefire agreement of 1949, all F estsetzung the final political border. These Lin ien reflected only the relative positions of the Jordanian-Iraqi 's and Israeli forces at the end of the war against. A few months after the Six-Day War, adopted by the UN Security Council adopted Resolution 242, the core UN decision on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The resolution recognized the problematic nature of the boundaries of 1967, leaving Israel with a 'wasp waist' of 9 kilometers, and Israel's need for "secure and recognized borders." In particular, the Security Council had returned the Arab demand for a text that Israel committed to the complete return of all of the UNT during the conflict of 1967 he brought his control area, said Israel was only to "retreat from areas in the recent conflict were occupied, "called, not from an" all the territories ", not even from" the territories ".
Subsequent peace talks have dealt with solutions that include compromises border between Israel and a potential Palestinian state. Even Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and Peace stated in his last Knesset speech to his assassination in 1995, that Israel is not a behind-the-line 4 will retire in June 1967. reflects this position against both the changes that have over the past four decades gone locally pace than even the problematic nature of the original boundary lines.
exist now important Israeli population centers in the West Bank, concentrated most of which are in residential blocks and are close to the lines of 1967. The forced deportation of its inhabitants rather than a rationalization of the border would not be approved by the Israeli population and represent an insurmountable challenge for any Israeli government.
The Israelis have old ties to this part of the land of Israel, and Jews have lived there for centuries - until 1948, the ethnic cleansing in the West Bank were victims. Many sites of great religious and historical significance for the Jewish people are in the West Bank. This includes the grave of the Patriarchs in Hebron, where the According to tradition, Abraham, Sarah, Issac, Rebekah, Jacob and Leah are buried.
A rational assessment of a realistic and lasting peace process, the Jewish presence in the West Bank will be charged. Until now, all negotiations on a two-state solution to this premise is based. A final status agreement will reflect the new reality of the West Bank and require both sides to a compromise.
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