U.S. Conditions for PLO Talks Outlined by Kissinger in 1975
American conditions for dialogue with the Palestine Liberation Organization were first outlined by Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger in 1975, when he sought Israel’s approval for a troop separation agreement with Egypt in the Sinai Peninsula, seized by Israel in 1967 and retained during the Arab-Israeli War of 1973.
Kissinger promised the Israelis that the United States would never deal with the PLO unless the organization acknowledged Israel’s right to exist and accepted U.N. Security Council Resolutions 242 and 338, which called for Israeli withdrawal from occupied territory in exchange for peace and a guarantee to all states in the region of the right to live within internationally recognized borders.
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