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  1. “It would, in my view, lead to disastrous consequences if the United Nations were to abandon or compromise this fundamental principle". This statement has lost none of its timeliness and significance today. The passage of time has not diminished its pertinence and urgency. More than ever, it provides the only guideline for action by the international community. 15. The situation which confronts the United Nations at present was not brought about by fortuitous circumstances but resulted inevitably from a comprehensive Israeli plan of action with well-defined political, strategic and territorial objectives. This is no longer a matter of opinion or conjecture. The declarations of the Israeli leaders and indeed their action with regard to Jerusalem, Gaza and the West Bank of the Jordan leave no room for doubt as to their real intentions.”

    1968-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 23 (1968)

  2. “The decision of the United States Government, announced two days ago, to open negotiations with Israel for the sale of offensive supersonic Phantom jets provides incontrovertible proof of the complete bias of United States policy in Israel’s favour. This latest act of blatant favouritism will not fail to encourage Israel to continue its aggressive expansionist policy. 14. The Secretary-General in the introduction to his annual report last year stated the following: “There is the immediate and urgently challenging issue of the withdrawal of the armed forces of Israel from the territory of neighbouring Arab States occupied during the recent war. There is near unanimity on this issue, in principle, because everyone agrees that there should be no territorial gains by military conquest.”

    1968-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 23 (1968)

  3. “I would not be revealing anything new if I said that Israel would not have dared to commit all those aggressive acts and would not have continued to violate all principles of international morality if it had not been sustained by its unholy alliance with the United States, which still ignores its responsibility as a permanent member of the Security Council to respect the Charter and uphold the principles of international justice. It is ready to sacrifice all these principles for reasons which I need not elucidate, since they are known to all those who are aware of the role played by the United States in creating Israel in the heart of the Arab world as a base to obstruct the Arab liberation movement and the struggle of the Arab nation for progress and development. 13.”

    1968-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 23 (1968)

  4. “It also confirms Israel’s refusal to evacuate occupied Arab territory and its intention to annex those territories or at least to maintain indefinitely its control over them. The United Nations is thus again faced with a most serious challenge to one of the fundamental principles of the Charter, namely, the territorial integrity of States and the inadmissibility of territorial expansion by force. Failure to deal with this challenge will inevitably weaken faith and erode confidence in the Organization. The United Nations must demonstrate that its principles are applicable to all without discrimination, even though such an impartial application may not be to the liking of one of the great Powers. 12.”

    1968-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 23 (1968)

  5. “Not satisfied with the crimes committed in the occupied territories, Israel has extended its aggression to the Arab people of Jordan. During the past year, Israel has been twice condemned by the Security Council for wanton and unprovoked large-scale military attacks on many areas in Jordan. In the Suez Canal region, Israel has mercilessly bombarded the densely populated cities of Suez and Ismailia and has wilfully and arbitrarily obstructed all efforts to reopen the Suez Canal to international shipping and commerce. Israel’s behaviour during this past year is further proof of its lack of respect for the principles of international law and its utter disregard of the Charter.”

    1968-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 23 (1968)

  6. “The reign of terror and intimidation in the occupied territories continues unabated, violating all humanitarian principles and international conventions and reminiscent of the worst crimes committed in Europe under Nazi occupation. It was natural, therefore, that the International Conference on Human Rights in its resolution I, should denounce the violation of human rights in the occupied territories, where Israeli authorities continue to demolish homes and imprison thousands, inflicting upon them unspeakable degradations and torture. Hoping to hide these crimes Israel has refused to accept the Secretary-General’s proposal to send a special representative to look into the conditions of the civilian population in the areas it occupied in June 1967. 11.”

    1968-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 23 (1968)

  7. “Implicit in this was a universal condemnation of Israel’s ill-concealed ambition to annex the Arab territories occupied as a result of its treacherous attack on the Arab countries in June 1967. A whole year has passed and Israeli occupation still continues. Israel annexed Arab Jerusalem in violation of the decisions of the General Assembly and of the Security Council. Numerous administrative steps have been taken to integrate the rest of the Western Bank, politically and economically, with Israel. In Gaza, Israel has continued its systematic campaign to drain it of its Arab population in preparation for its eventual annexation.”

    1968-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 23 (1968)

  8. “For over twenty years, the people of Palestine have been cajoled, intimidated and subjected to all kinds of pressures and temptations to give up their claim to their homeland; but they resisted and will continue to resist however great are the sacrifices. 9. The people of Palestine have been the victims of an unparalleled racist colonial invasion. In their struggle to regain their rights and recover their lost freedom and usurped homeland, they are entitled to the understanding, sympathy and support of the other peoples of the world, especially those which only recently emerged from colonial rule. 10. During the general debate last year, there was virtual unanimity in upholding the Charter principles relating to the inadmissibility of territorial expansion by force.”

    1968-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 23 (1968)

  9. “The one solid unalterable fact which will always live in the conscience of the Arab nation and indeed of world opinion is the refusal of the people of Palestine to disappear as a distinct national Arab entity and their determination to stay alive whatever the cost. 8. In addition to the provisions of the Charter of the United Nations and the principle of international law, Iraq’s foreign policy derives its inspiration from the unshakable belief of our people in the right of the people of Palestine to live as part of the Arab nation. Iraq will spare no effort and will employ all available means inside this Organization as well as outside it to render assistance to the people of Palestine in its struggle to uphold and exercise that right.”

    1968-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 23 (1968)

  10. “A great deal has been said in the last year and a half about innocent passage through international waterways, about secure boundaries, about belligerency, territorial expansion by military force, negotiations, direct and indirect, and about what is called the crisis in the Middle East and the conflict between Israel and the Arab States. But not much has been heard about the people of Palestine, whose tragic fate is at the root of all the problems besetting our area. For can we forget that all those problems were created as a result of the onslaught of Zionism against the people of Palestine? Nothing will be settled, and nothing will endure, until and unless the consequences and implications of that aggression are recognized and fearlessly dealt with. 7.”

    1968-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 23 (1968)

  11. “In the view of the Government of Iraq, the primary cause of tension and conflict in the Middle East during the past twenty years has been, first, the failure to find a just solution to the Palestine question which would guarantee the inalienable right of self-determination of the people of Palestine to live in sovereign freedom and peace in their ancestral homeland; and second, the pursuance by Israel of aggressive and expansionist policies at the expense of the Arabs. If we really want to reduce tension in the area, we should never lose sight of the fact that we are dealing with the right of the Arab people of Palestine to survive as a distinct and homogeneous national community.”

    1968-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 23 (1968)

  12. “Once again we meet in an atmosphere filled with anxiety and foreboding. The sombre circumstances that prevailed at the opening of the previous session have become even darker and more ominous. As the Secretary-General said in the introduction to his annual report: “In the period under review, I regret to have to report that little progress, if any, has been recorded towards the growth of international order based on law and justice” [A/7201/Add.1, para. 174]. He further said that the deterioration of the international situation “has continued throughout the past year".[Ibid., para.1]. And nowhere has that deterioration been more evident than in the Middle East. 6.”

    1968-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 23 (1968)

  13. “1. It gives me great pleasure to join the previous speakers in extending to Mr. Arenales, from this rostrum, our sincere congratulations on his election to the Presidency of the General Assembly at its twenty-third session. His election is a high tribute to his country and a recognition of his high qualities as a Statesman. 2. I wish also to pay a tribute to Mr. Comeliu Manescu, the outgoing President, who conducted the work of the twenty-second session of the Assembly with great ability and distinction. 3. We also wish to take this opportunity to express our admiration and support to the Secretary-General for his untiring efforts in the cause of peace. 4. We welcome in our midst the new independent African State of Swaziland, and we extend to its people and Government our best wishes. 5.”

    1968-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 23 (1968)