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-- SC Resolution 298 (1971) affirming "acquisition of territory by military conquest is inadmissible."
Rejecting Legitimate Peace Talks
In his book "The Peace Process," William Quant traces American-led negotiations from the mid-1970s when the term signified a "gradual, step-by-step approach to resolving one of the world's most difficult conflicts." At best, it was a "process," at worst, "little more than a slogan used to mask the marking of time," what, in fact, it's been for the past 35 years. As a result, since 1967, Israel expropriated valued Palestinian land, dispossessed tens of thousands incrementally, and, through violence and oppression, continues to commit slow-motion genocide - hardly a recipe for peace and conflict resolution.
The "peace process," in fact, subverts it in a region Dwight Eisenhower called the most "strategically important area in the world" with its enormous energy reserves. Pressured by the Israeli Lobby, Washington's prevailing view is that Israel is vital to US Middle East dominance, part of a plan to control all Eurasia with 75% of the world's population, most of its resources and physical wealth, and three-fourths of its energy reserves - the grandest of grand prizes, too valuable to slip away, and one not to let peace obstruct.
It's no surprise that Washington vetoed SC Resolution 11940 (January 1976) calling for a pre-1967 border settlement with "appropriate arrangements....to guarantee....the sovereignty, territorial integrity and the political independence of all states in the area and their right to live in peace within secure and recognized boundaries," including a sovereign Palestinian state in the West Bank and Gaza. Egypt, Syria, Jordan, and the PLO backed it. Israel was opposed. Washington obliged with a veto as it's done dozens of times over the past half century blocking resolutions harmful to Israeli interests.
Israel's record is even worse. With full US support, it's ignored over five dozen UN resolutions condemning or censuring it for its actions against the Palestinians or other Arab states, deploring it for committing them, or demanding, calling on, or urging the Jewish state to end them. To the present, Israel never did, acting with impunity to obstruct peace, continue conflict, and deny Palestinians a sovereign independent state or a viable one-state solution for all its people.
After the 1967 Six Day War, the "Allon Plan," named after Defense Minister (later Prime Minister) Yigal Allon, was an early rejectionist measure by proposing:
-- "maximum land with minimum Arabs;"
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