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in the challenge of keeping track with all the diverse news in the world, i stumbled across an excellent report by the BBC on the history of 40 years of failed peace in the middle-east. in the context of conflict resolution and it history, i think that it is more than viable to share this piece of information with the community, if you haven't already found out by yourself while surfing the net.
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History of failed peace talks
In the 40 years since the Middle East war of June 1967, there have been many peace plans and many negotiations.

Some of these have been successful, including those between Egypt and Israel and Israel and Jordan, but a settlement has still not been reached in the core conflict, the dispute between the Israelis and Palestinians.


The BBC News website is publishing a series of articles about the attempts to achieve peace and the main obstacles. To start the series, Paul Reynolds looks at the main peace proposals since 1967 and what happened to them.



SECURITY COUNCIL RESOLUTION 242, 1967
This was passed on 22 November 1967 and embodies the principle that has guided most of the subsequent peace plans - the exchange of land for peace.

The resolution called for the "withdrawal of Israeli armed forces from territories occupied in the recent conflict", 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 peace within secure and recognized boundaries free from threats or acts of force".

The resolution is famous for the imprecision, in English, of its central phase concerning an Israeli withdrawal - it says simply "from territories".

The Israelis said this did not necessarily mean all territories, but Arab negotiators argued that it did.

It was written under Chapter VI of the UN Charter, under which Security Council resolutions are recommendations, not under Chapter VII, which means they are orders. Many peace proposals refer to 242.

Resolution 338 is usually linked to it. This called for a ceasefire in the war of October 1973 and urged the implementation of 242 "in all its parts".

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