General Armistice Agreement Between Israel and Jordan - April 3, 1949
ARTICLE ii
2. It is also recognized that no provision of this Agreement shall in any way prejudice the rights, claims and positions of either Party hereto in the ultimate peaceful settlement of the Palestine question, the provisions of this Agreement being dedicated exclusively by military considerations.
According to international scholar and lawyer Dr. Jacques Gauthier, the idea of these lines were to say, "If you stop fighting, don't worry. There will be no implications from a political or legal point of view of these lines."
Talking about the 1967 borders is a misnomer and a misrepresentation. We are in fact talking about the 1949 armistice lines - the very lines that are not supposed to give right to the parties.
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