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English Text Of 242
Favors Israel Position
Copenhagen (JTA) — A
Danish diplomat who helped
draft U.N. Security Council
Resolution 242 maintains
that the English text of the
resolution, which allowed a
broader interpretation of
Israel's exchanging ter-
ritories for peace, was the in-
tended version of the docu-
ment when it was drafted in
1967.
Hans Tabor, currently
Denmark's ambassador to
Norway, described the
resolution as favoring
Israel's position, in an inter-
view he gave to the Danish
daily Politiken.
"The English version was
the result of a compromise
between opposing positions,
and it was not possible to at-
tain agreement for another
version, given the power re-
lations then prevailing in
the Security Council. The
English version of Resolu-
tion 242 is the original one,"
said Mr. Tabor, who was
president of the Security
Council at the time the
resolution was drafted.
While the English version,
introduced by Britain, calls
for an Israeli withdrawal
"from occupied territories,"
the French translation,
made later, could be con-
strued as saying "from the
occupied territories."
The definite article "des,"
in this case preceding the
word "territoires," is com-
monly used in French, a
language that almost always
uses definite articles. But
the addition of the article
could imply that the resolu-
tion calls for Israel to
exchange all the territories
it acquired after it was at-
tacked on June 5, 1967.
This interpretation is the
one favored by the Arabs.
Nevertheless, 'the English
version is the one we for-
mulated at the Security
Council," Mr. Tabor told
Politiken.
"The French translation of
the resolution," said Mr.
Tabor, "came later and is
based on the English ver-
sion," Mr. Tabor explained.
His remarks were made in
connection with the Israeli-
Arab peace conference in
Madrid, whose every turn
focused on the interpretation
of the call for exchanging
land for peace.
"The controversial Resolu-
tion 242 does not demand
Israeli withdrawal from all
of the territories that it
captured in 1967," said Mr.
Tabor. "On the contrary, the
resolution permits Israel,
due to security considera-
tions, to hold on to some of
the territories."
A few months after Mr.
Tabor headed the Security
Council as its rotating presi-
dent, he was named Den-
mark's foreign minister and
led his country's delegation
to the Security Council
meeting where, on Nov. 22,
1967, Resolution 242 was
adopted.
The resolution, and its
companion Resolution 338,
which makes 242 legally
binding, are recognized by
all parties as the basic for-
mula for an Arab-Israeli
peace settlement.
"It had to be done that
way, so that all the parties
could vote in its favor," he
said. "There are territories
that Israel cannot withdraw
from for security and strate-
gic reasons. I still believe
this is the meaning of the
resolution," Mr. Tabor said.
Mr. Tabor's interpretation
was recently supported by
another of the resolution's
authors, Eugene Rostow,
who was U.S. undersecretary
of state.
In an article in the Oct. 21
issue of the New Republic,
Mr. Rostow wrote that
although the resolution has
been deemed to be
"deliberately ambiguous,"
in fact, "nothing could be
further from the truth."
Mr. Rostow, who is now a
distinguished fellow at the
United States Peace In-
stitute, said that Resolution
242 "allows Israel to ad-
minister the territories it oc-
cupied in 1967 until a just
and lasting peace in the
Middle East' is achieved.
"When such a peace is
made, Israel is required to
withdraw its armed forces
`from territories' it occupied
during the Six- Day War —
not from 'the' territories, nor
from 'all' the territories, but
from some of the territories,
which included the Sinai
Desert, the West Bank, the
Golan Heights, East
Jerusalem, and the Gaza
Strip.
"Five-and-a-half months of
vehement public diplomacy
in 1967 made it perfectly
clear what the missing
definite article in Resolution
242 means," he wrote.
"Ingeniously drafted
resolutions calling for
withdrawal from 'all' the
territories were defeated in
the Security Council and the
General Assembly."
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