From: adam@sparkle.uucp (Adam Shostack)
Newsgroups: talk.politics.misc,talk.politics.mideast,misc.headlines
Subject: Re: Fair Swap
Date: 4 Sep 92 18:23:14 GMT
Article-I.D.: das.1992Sep4.182314.28708
Organization: Aiken Computation Lab, Harvard University

In article <EGGERTJ.92Sep4121946@moses.atc.ll.mit.edu> eggertj@atc.ll.mit.edu writes:
>In article <1992Sep3.210032.29898@colorado.edu> perlman@qso.Colorado.EDU (Eric S. Perlman) writes:
>>   Further, let's remember the writings of both Lord Ambassador Caradon and
>>   Ambassador Goldberg (GB and US respectively), who have written that
>>   border changes are quite legal under 242, and Goldberg has in fact
>>   written that 242 was never meant to apply to Jerusalem. 

>Of course the public opinions of two ambassadors do not carry the
>weight of international law that UNSC resolutions do.  If the UNSC
>doesn't want their resolution to apply to Jerusalem, then they'd
>better write it as such.  Until then, it sure does apply to Jerusalem,
>despite public posturing by some individuals.

Actually, they did write it so that it does not apply to Jerusalem.
The word Jerusalem does not appear in the resolution.  And, as has
been pointed out many times, the word "the" is missing, intentionally,
from 1.i, meaning that the resolution does *not* automatically apply
to all of the land, but quite possibly, only some of it.  That some
does not need to include Jerusalem.

For your reading pleasure:

Resolution 242 Nov 22, 1967
 
The Security Council,
Expressing its continuing concern with the grave situation in the
Middle East,
Emphasizing the inadmissibility of acquisition of territory by war and
the need to work for a just and lasting peace in which every State in
the area can live in security,
Emphasizing further that all member states in their acceptance of the
Charter of the United Nations have undertaken a commitment to act in
accordance with Article 2 of the Charter,
 
1.  Affirms the fulfillment of the charter principles requires the
establishment of a just and lasting peace in the Middle East which
should include the application of both of the following principles:
 
i.  Withdrawal of Israeli armed forces from territories occupied in
the recent conflict;
ii.  Termination of all claims or states of belligerency and respect
for and acknowledgement of the sovereignty, territorial integrity and
political independence of every state in the area and their right to
live in secure and recognized boundaries free from threats or acts of
force;
 
 
2.  Affirms further the necessity
 
a.  For guaranteeing freedom of navigation through international
waterways in the area;
b.  For achieving a just settlement to the refugee problem;
c.  For guaranteeing the territorial inviolability and political
independence of every State in the area, through measures including
the establishment of demilitarized zones;
 
3.  Requests the Secretary-General to designate a special
representative to proceed to the Middle East to establish and maintain
contacts with the states concerned in order to promote agreement and
assist efforts to achieve a peaceful and accepted settlement in
accordance with the provisions and principles in this resolution;
 
4.  Requests the Secretary-General to report to the Security Council
on the progress of the efforts of the Special Representative as soon
as possible.





Adam Shostack 					adam@das.harvard.edu

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