Houston Chronicle · Houston, Texas · 15 October 1980
CP-1980-003
Reagan says Israeli settlements are legal
Chronicle News Services
Transcribed from the clipping
“Republican candidate Ronald Reagan says the Carter administration is wrong in saying Israeli settlements on the occupied West Bank are illegal. Reagan said in Los Angeles that the settlements ‘are entirely legal’ under U.N.
Resolution 242, adopted after the 1967 Israeli-Arab war… Reagan said, ‘All people — Moslem, Jew and Christian — are entitled to live on the West Bank until a determination is made’ on the future of the area.
U.S. administrations since the mid-1960s, both Democratic and Republican, have consistently declared that the Israeli settlements were not legal, pending a final peace settlement.”
Context added by this archive
The paper puts the change on the record in its own copy: every administration since the mid-1960s had said the opposite.
A correction
Slide 11 captions this scan as the Los Angeles Herald Examiner, 11 January 1978. It reports the Reagan-Carter campaign, so it is the 1980 Houston paper.
Cite this clipping
"Reagan says Israeli settlements are legal," Houston Chronicle, 15 October 1980, p. 1. Covering Palestine archive, CP-1980-003. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-1980-003
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