Middle East Conflict Primary Sources | United Nations Resolution 242

United Nations Security Council Resolution 242
(November 22, 1967)

Reprinted in Palestine and the Arab-Israeli Conflict
Edited by Charles D. Smith
Published in 2001

"The Security Council, expressing its continuing concern with the grave situation in the Middle East...and the need to work for a just and lasting peace in which every state in the area can live in security...."

Ever since its founding in 1945, the United Nations has had a special relationship with Palestine and the problems the country faced. Among its first actions as an organization was the creation of the United Nations Special Committee on Palestine (UNSCOP), which in 1947 recommended the division of Palestine into two independent states, one Jewish and one Arab. On November 29, 1947, the United Nations General Assembly adopted Resolution 181, which set in place a plan to...