Eshkol accepts Resolution 242, which calls for…

Eshkol accepts Resolution 242, which calls for "withdrawal of Israeli armed forces from territories occupied in the recent conflict" in exchange for Arab acceptance of Israel.

The Israelis are willing to view their conquests (except Jerusalem) as bargaining chips but insist on Arab recognition of the right of Israel to exist and firm guarantees against future attack.

The so-called frontline Arab states are neither able (for domestic reasons) nor willing to give such guarantees and instead court Soviet and Third World support against "U.S.­-Israeli imperialism."

Hence Israel remains both greatly enlarged and possessed of shorter, more defensible borders, although it does acquire the problem of administering more than a million Arabs in Gaza and the West Bank.