The Labor Zionist Alliance issued a policy statement calling on the government of Israel to accept the traditional interpretation of Resolution 242 “namely, peace with defensible borders agreed to in negotiations with all of its neighboring states and including territorial compromises on all fronts, but no return to the 1967 borders.” At the same time, the LZA assailed the “continued erosion of support” for Israel by the Carter Administration and criticized the Administration for tying the sale of war planes to Israel with war plane sales to Egypt and Saudi Arabia.
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