"He calls for continued Israeli security control over the West Bank and recognition of a so-called "Jewish state" while at the same time voicing a desire for a "genuine peace process", the ministry said. The West Bank and Gaza Strip became "administered territories", a temporary solution that is still in place 50 years later.
Statements of the latter kind bemoan Israel's "occupation" of the Palestinians and describe it as a disaster that has to end - fast.
"The United States is looking carefully at this Council and our participation in it".
"The new secure and recognized worldwide borders between Israel and Palestine will be negotiated based on the 1967 lines with mutually-agreed swaps whose size and location will be negotiated, so that Palestine will have viable territory corresponding in size to the territory controlled by Egypt and Jordan before June 4, 1967, with territorial contiguity in the West Bank". After the 1967 war, Israel annexed East Jerusalem and deems all of the city its "indivisible and eternal capital", a status not recognized internationally.
Netanyahu declared that Israel will maintain security control over the entire Judea and Samaria region, with or without a peace agreement with the Palestinians.
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If Corbyn wins the situation is more unclear, with the Labour leader remaining something of an unknown quantity on Brexit. As home secretary, Rudd is in charge of the police and security services and helped lead the response to the attacks.
The settlers, pillars of support for Netanyahu's right-wing government, are still smarting over the February demolition of the Amona rogue settlement outpost in the West Bank.
Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas's spokesman said today that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's vow to build across the occupied West Bank was a "challenge" to Donald Trump's efforts to restart peace talks. Anything else would have been catastrophic for Israel and the Jewish people. Three years prior to the Six-Day War, Yasir Arafat created the Palestine Liberation Organization. Palestinians say any peace deal would have to include "right to return" or the right of the 700,000 displaced Palestinians and their descendants to return to their homes, a proposal Israel has fiercely opposed. "In negotiating the borders, the parties will need to take into account subsequent developments, Israel's security requirements and the goal of minimizing movement of existing populations while avoiding friction", the paragraph read, according to the report. The Council's critical stance of Israel has always been a contentious issue for the United States, Israel's main ally.
UNSC 242 states: "Withdrawal of Israeli armed forces from territories occupied in recent conflict". It sought to make the case that Israel only makes compromises after being forced by violent Palestinian actions and/or American diplomatic pressure.
In a message released at the United Nations headquarters, the United Nations chief understated "now is the time to end the conflict by establishing an independent Palestinian state, living side by side in peace and security with Israel".
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