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UN Security Council Resolution 242 and the Path of Israeli-Palestinian Peace

In 2009 the Administration of US President Barack Obama has decided to renew American efforts to broker a comprehensive and lasting peace between the State of Israel and the Palestinian authority. The aim of the paper is, first, to elucidate the exact sense in which November 1967 UN SC Resolution 242, a foundation for the entire Arab- Israeli peace process, contains an ambiguity, thus sustaining the conflict of interpretations and posing a serious obstacle to the Israeli- Palestinian peace negotiations. In other words, the paper primarily aims to answer the question of the aspect of the 242 that generates and prima facie justifies the interpretive conflict concerning the Resolution. Secondly, the paper offers some legal and linguistic considerations that seem irreconcilable with a major part of the interpretation of the 242 by John McHugo. Thirdly, it points to a number of divergent and dissonant historical narratives concerning the post-242 developments of the Arab-Israeli and wider international-political relationships, and explains such narrative dissonance in the light of the 242 ambiguity. Hence, the paper emphasizes the need to recognize a relative and only limited merit of the key historical accounts concerning the post-242 international political developments, and consequently to refrain from passing an unambiguous judgment on either the agents or the character of such developments. Finally, from a critical-rationalist and, broadly speaking, discourse-ethical perspective, the paper proposes some preliminary guidelines for a start of effective disambiguation of the 242, outlining the ways in which the notion of moral/legal right is intertwined with our use of language in general, and with interpretive practice in particular.

UN 242 ; Ambiguity ; Interpretation ; Israel ; Palestine ; Occupied territories

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