Here's a good rebuttal from Democracy Now!
President Netanyahu made a big impression with what he called the "indefensible" return to the pre-1967 borders. Now, for anyone whose been following the Israel/Palestine conflict, would know that Israel has been legally mandated to go back to it's pre-1967 borders...since 1967.
With the unanimous passage of UN Resolution 242 it very specifically required:
(i) Withdrawal of Israel armed forces from territories occupied in the recent conflict;
That's not exactly hard to misinterpret but apologists are already trying to justify Israel's blatant rejection. The so-called "liberal" Allen Dershowitz has cited Resolution 242 stating that it "contemplated that Israel would hold on to the Western Wall, the Jewish Quarter of Jerusalem and the access roads to Hebrew University, without the need for any land swaps." Now I don't exactly know what "contemplated" is supposed to mean here, but nowhere in the resolution does it mention a "Western Wall" or "Hebrew University".
The other "argument" Netanyahu announced was that the new settlement has to recognize "demographic changes" since 1967. The "demographic changes" being the blatantly illegal settlements which the UN has long condemned as a grave violation of the Fourth Geneva Convention.
