Annexation of Territories After the Six-Day War

WHY DID ISRAEL NOT ANNEX THE TERRITORIES IT OCCUPIED DURING THE SIXDAY WAR IN 1967?

In the examination of the question posed in the title of this research, the first thing that must be acknowledged is that Israel did, almost immediately, annex some of the territory it occupied in the SixDay War in 1967, soon thereafter annexed more of such territory, and, in the early1990s, indicates that it does not ever intend to relinquish some of the as yet unannexed territory under any conditions. During the SixDay War, Israel occupied (and remained in occupation subsequent to the end of the war) the Sinai Peninsula, the Golan Heights, the West Bank, the Gaza Strip, and East Jerusalem (Lewis, 1990). Israel unilaterally annexed East Jerusalem immediately upon conclusion of the SixDay War (Tartter and Mason, 1990). Much later, in 1981, Israel annexed the Golan Heights (Tartter and Mason, 1990). As Israeli Prime Minister, Menachem Begin traded landforpeace in negotiations with Egypt through the Camp David Accordsthe Sinai Peninsula was returned to Egypt in trade for a guarantee of peace between Israel and Egypt (Lewis, 1990). At the same time, however, Begin indicated that he considered the West Bank to be an integral part of the State of Israel (Lewis, 1990). Actions by subsequent Israeli governments have strengthened Israel's absorption of the West Bank, although actual annexation has not occurred (Benevisti, 1990). These actions cover all of the occu

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srael in the territory of Palestine. This action certainly created a great injustice for the Arab Palestinians, but it was not the result of a clash of equal rights. United Nations Resolution Number 242 calls for the return by Israel of the territories in occupied as a consequence of the SixDay War. The Resolution also calls for the Arab states and the Palestine Liberation Organization to recognize the right of the State of Israel to exist. The United States officially supports Resolution 242. In actual practice, however, the United States has usually supported Israel in that country's attempts to maintain control of the territories. American policy in the ArabIsraeli conflict since 1967 has been neither restrained nor balanced (Green, 1988). Rather, American policy toward the conflict has provided for an intensive American involvement, with a solid preference for Israel (Wingerter, 1985). In the early1950s, "Israel was a small, struggling country. Survival was really an issue . ., and American foreign policy in the Middle East was to achieve peace in order to assure that survival" (Green, 1988, p. 1). Contemporary Israel, however, has "the fifth or sixth most powerful army in the world, the third largest airforce, and

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