A Top Secret cable sent to the new Israeli ambassador in Washington DC, Yitzhak Rabin, explains, with rare frankness, the reasons why Israel avoided formally recognizing the applicability of the Fourth Geneva Convention to the territories it occupied in 1967.

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The Comay and Meron cable to Ambassador Rabin: “Express recognition on our part of the applicability of the Geneva Convention would highlight serious issues with respect to the Convention"