| Under the plan, Israel would assert and sustain military presence over the West Bank up to the Jordan River, the West Bank would be demilitarized, the Palestinians would be provided self-administration in an autonomous or semiautonomous region, and Israel would remain in full control over a united Jerusalem, with perhaps a Jordanian status in the Muslim quarter of the Old City | The latter term is used within and outside the context of armed conflicts, to designate a unilateral decision adopted by a State in order to extent its sovereignty over a given territory |
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| Stein, 1999, Heroic Diplomacy: Sadat, Kissinger, Carter, Begin and the Quest for Arab-Israeli Peace: "Submitted to several Israeli Cabinets for approval but not officially endorsed, the Allon Plan was initially presented in July 1967 | This attempt at producing a transfer of sovereignty through the exclusive decision of the victor is not generally recognized as valid, both in classical and in contemporary international law |
Yehudit Auerbach, 1991, Journal of Conflict Resolution, "Attitudes to an Existence Conflict: Allon and Peres on the Palestinian Issue, 1967—1987": "The [Allon] plan called for a political settlement of the conflict between Israel and the Arab states, based on the following themes: Israel would not return to the June 4, 1967 borders; the Jordan River would be Israel's defense border; Jerusalem, the capital of Israel, would remain united; and a solution to the Palestinian problem would be found as part of a peace agreement with Jordan.
11| It called for incorporating in Israel the following areas: a strip of land ten to fifteen kilometers wide along the Jordan River; most of the Judean desert along the Dead Sea; and a substantial area around Greater Jerusalem, including the Latrun salient | in contrast to acquisition a of terra nullius by means of effective occupation accompanied by the intent to appropriate the territory; b by cession as a result of a treaty concluded between the States concerned Treaties , or an act of adjudication, both followed by the effective peaceful transfer of territory; c by means of prescription defined as the legitimization of a doubtful title to territory by passage of time and presumed acquiescence of the former sovereign; d by accretion constituting the physical process by which new land is formed close to, or becomes attached to, existing land |
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| it was obvious that they were in fact always subservient to the will of the Occupying Power |