Editing Land for peace (section)

==Peace treaties==
[[File:EgyptIsraelBorderEilat.JPG|thumb|200px|Egypt–Israel border, looking north from the Eilat Mountains]]
On 19 June 1967, shortly after the Six-Day War, the Israeli government voted to return the Sinai to Egypt and the Golan Heights to Syria in exchange for a permanent peace settlement and a demilitarization of the returned territories.<ref>Herzog, ''Heroes of Israel'', p. 253.</ref><ref>{{cite news |author=Seth S. King |date=30 June 1967 |title=Israeli aims tied to 6 vital areas |url=http://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1967/06/30/83128870.html?pageNumber=1 |access-date=21 September 2015 |newspaper=The New York Times}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |author=Drew Middleton |date=1 June 1967 |title=Latin nations bid Israel withdraw |url=http://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1967/07/01/83130813.html?pageNumber=1 |access-date=21 September 2015 |newspaper=The New York Times}}</ref> This decision was not made public at the time, nor was it conveyed to any Arab state. Israeli Foreign Minister [[Abba Eban]] has said that it had been conveyed, but there seems to be no solid evidence to corroborate his claim; no formal peace proposal was made either directly or indirectly by Israel.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Raz |first=Avi |date=2013 |title=The Generous Peace Offer that was Never Offered: The Israeli Cabinet Resolution of June 19, 1967 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/44254276 |journal=Diplomatic History |volume=37 |issue=1 |pages=85–108 |issn=0145-2096}}</ref> The Americans, who were briefed of the Cabinet's decision by Eban, were not asked to convey it to Cairo and Damascus as official peace proposals, nor were they given indications that Israel expected a reply.<ref>{{cite book |last=Shlaim |first=Avi |title=The Iron Wall – Israel and the Arab World |date=2014 |publisher=Penguin Books |isbn=978-0-14-103322-8 |edition=paperback 2014 |page=270 |quote=The decision of 19 June read, "Israel proposes the conclusion of a peace agreement with Egypt based on the international border and the security needs of Israel." The international border placed the Gaza strip within Israel's territory. ... it makes no mention of a request by Eban to transmit these terms to Egypt and Syria. ... One is left with the impression that Eban was more interested in using the cabinet decision of 19 June to impress the Americans than to engage the governments of Egypt and Syria in substantive negotiations}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |author=Shlomo Ben-Ami |title=Scars of War, Wounds of Peace: The Israeli–Arab Tragedy |publisher=Phoenix |year=2005 |isbn=978-0-7538-2104-6 |page=125 |quote="But was there on 19 June 1967 an Israeli peace overture towards Syria and Egypt? Did the Israeli cabinet end its deliberations on that day with a decision to convey concrete peace proposals to its Arab neighbors along the lines as discussed in the Cabinet, or perhaps ask the American administration to do so on its behalf? Notwithstanding Abba Eban's (Israeli Minister of Foreign Affairs in 1967) insistence that this was indeed the case, there seems to be no solid evidence to corroborate his claim. No formal peace proposal was made either directly or indirectly by Israel. The Americans, who were briefed on the Cabinet's decision by Eban, were not asked to convey it to Cairo and Damascus as official peace proposals, nor were they given indications that Israel expected a reply. At the meeting of 19 June the Israeli government developed policy guidelines; it did not discuss a peace initiative, nor did it ever formalise it as such."}}</ref> Eban rejected the prospect of a mediated peace, insisting on the need for direct negotiations with the Arab governments.<ref>{{cite news |last=Smith |first=Terrebce |date=15 August 1967 |title=A Mediated Peace Rejected by Eban |url=http://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1967/08/15/90390826.html?pageNumber=1 |access-date=16 September 2015 |newspaper=New York Times}}</ref>

The Arab position, as it emerged in September 1967 at the [[Khartoum Resolution|Khartoum Arab Summit]], was to reject any peaceful settlement with the State of Israel. The eight participating states—Egypt, Syria, Jordan, Lebanon, Iraq, Algeria, Kuwait, and Sudan—passed a resolution that would later become known as the "three no's": there would be no peace, no recognition and no negotiation with Israel. Prior to that, King [[Hussein of Jordan]] had stated that he could not rule out a possibility of a "real, permanent peace" between Israel and the Arab states.<ref>{{cite news |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |date=27 June 1967 |title=Eban rejects aid in settling crisis |url=http://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1967/06/26/83125500.html?pageNumber=3 |access-date=21 September 2015 |newspaper=The New York Times |page=3}}</ref>

The first application of the land for peace formula was [[Egypt–Israel peace treaty|Israel's peace treaty with Egypt]] in 1979,{{citation needed|date=March 2018}} under which Israel withdrew from the [[Sinai Peninsula|Sinai]] as part of a comprehensive peace agreement facilitated by economic assistance to both sides from the United States.

In 1994 a similar comprehensive agreement invoking resolution 242<ref>{{cite web|title=Overview of Israel-Jordan Peace Negotiations|website=Jewish Virtual Library|url=https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/overview-of-israel-jordan-peace-negotiations}}</ref> formed the basis of the Israel Jordan peace treaty whereby both sides redeployed to their respective sides of the agreed international boundary.