UN Resolution 242: land for peace
1967 · Event
The Security Council unanimously adopts the formula every Middle East negotiation has cited since: Israeli withdrawal from territories occupied in the war, in exchange for every state's right to live in peace within secure and recognised boundaries. A missing 'the' before 'territories' — deliberate — keeps both sides arguing about what it means for fifty years.
On these timelines: The Six-Day War, The Levant, Master, Cold War
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- Israel's dawn strike destroys Egypt's air force (1967)
- Israel takes East Jerusalem and the West Bank (1967)
- Israel storms the Golan Heights (1967)
- Egypt closes the Straits of Tiran (1967)
- The Khartoum 'Three No's' (1967)
- Nasser orders the UN peacekeepers out of Sinai (1967)
- The War of Attrition (1967)
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- Prague Spring (1968)
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- Vietnam War (American phase) (1965)
- The Beatles (1960)
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