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Article: MIDDLE EAST HISTORY: IT HAPPENED IN AUGUST; Fulbright Called for U.S. Defense Pact With Israel But Was Labeled Anti-Semite
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- The Washington Report on Middle East Affairs
- Article date:
- September 30, 1997
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MIDDLE EAST HISTORY: IT HAPPENED IN AUGUST; Fulbright Called for U.S. Defense Pact With Israel But Was Labeled Anti-Semite
It was 27 years ago, on Aug. 22, 1970, when Democratic Senator J. William Ful-bright of Arkansas proposed that the United Nations impose peace on Israel and Arab states and that the United States guarantee Israel's borders within its pre-1967 boundaries. His proposal also urged that the Palestinians living under Israeli occupation be granted self-determination, that Jerusalem become an international city, as man- dated in the original U.N. partition of Palestine, and that Israeli ships be guaranteed passage through the Straits of Tiran and the Suez Canal.(1)
Fulbright ...