November 22, 1967 UN Resolution 242

U.N. Security Council Resolution 242

Lord Caradon, chief architect of the resolution, said, “It would have been wrong to demand that Israel return to its positions of June 4, 1967, because those positions were undesirable and artificial.  After all, they were just the places where the soldiers of each side happened to be on the day the fighting stopped in 1948.  They were just armistice lines.  That’s why we didn’t demand that the Israelis return to them.

George Brown, Britain’s Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs in 1967, stated in 1970 “The proposal said, ‘Israel will withdraw from territories that were occupied,’ and not from ‘the’ territories which means that Israel will not withdraw from all the territories.”

Source: New York Sun, “Memo to the Media: Stop Distorting Un Resolution 242!” June 5, 2002