Israel’s former UN ambassador Dore Gold told Fox News in an interview on May 27:
“I think the prime minister laid out something very fundamental and very important for the future of any talks. There’s an expectation that Israel withdraws to the 1967 lines, which were never a border for the State of Israel.
They were where armies had stopped in an earlier war when Israel had been invaded. What the prime minister said is that those lines were indefensible and therefore Israel needs defensible borders, and in any future talks, that will be one of the points that Israel will insist on.”
“I think the prime minister laid out something very fundamental and very important for the future of any talks. There’s an expectation that Israel withdraws to the 1967 lines, which were never a border for the State of Israel.
They were where armies had stopped in an earlier war when Israel had been invaded. What the prime minister said is that those lines were indefensible and therefore Israel needs defensible borders, and in any future talks, that will be one of the points that Israel will insist on.”
“In 2004 the State of Israel received a presidential letter that was confirmed by both houses of Congress, saying that Israel would not be expected to fully withdraw to the 1949 armistice line – that’s the technical name of the 1967 line. George Shultz, who was secretary of state of Ronald Reagan, said that Israel would never withdraw to the 1967 lines. So it hasn’t always been a reference term. I think President Obama introduced some wiggle room in terms of what the expectation is of Israel with reference to that line.”
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