Rogers Plan

The Rogers Plan was a framework proposed by United States Secretary of State William P. Rogers to achieve an end to belligerence in the Arab-Israeli conflict following the Six-Day War and the continuing War of Attrition. The plan was publicly proposed in a December 9, 1969 speech at an Adult Education conference, and was formally announced on June 19, 1970. Despite eventual concessions Egyptians ceded for the plan, Israel lobbyists opposed to the proposal galvanized American public against it.

The December 1969 speech followed the failure of the Jarring Mission to negotiate an implementation plan for UN Security Council Resolution 242 among the principals in the Six-Day War. It was in the context of the UN's failure to arbitrate Egypt–Israel tensions that the Soviet Union approached the US Nixon administration with the proposal to negotiate a peace settlement in the Middle East, with the two superpowers acting as mediators. The Soviet Union would work with Egypt and the United States would seek to represent Israel's interests.

Some of the points included in Rogers’ ten-point paper called for the following:

• Negotiations under Gunnar Jarring’s auspices following procedures used in the 1949 meetings on Rhodes;
• Israeli withdrawal from Egyptian territory occupied in the war;
• An agreement signed by the two sides officially ending the state of war and prohibiting “acts inconsistent with the state of peace between them”;
• Negotiations between Israel and Egypt for agreement on areas to be demilitarized, measures to guarantee free passage through the Gulf of Aqaba, and security arrangements for Gaza;
• A "fair settlement of the refugee problem".