On March 12, 1980, the New York Times printed a letter from Arthur J. Goldberg, who was the U.S. ambassador to the U.N. when Resolution 242 was adopted. That resolution provides for an Israeli withdrawal from an unspecified portion of “territories” in exchange for secure and recognized borders, and the Roadmap designates Resolution 242 as the basis for final status negotiations. Goldberg wrote “to set the record straight”:
Rick Richman
Resolution 242 in no way refers to Jerusalem, and this omission was deliberate. . . . In a number of speeches at the UN in 1967, I repeatedly stated that the armistice lines fixed after 1948 were intended to be temporary. This, of course, was particularly true of Jerusalem. . . . I made it clear that the status of Jerusalem should be negotiable and that the armistice lines dividing Jerusalem were no longer viable. In other words, Jerusalem was not to be divided again.
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