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Al-Jaber

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1969-09-24

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1971-09-24

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1. “On the contrary, the fate of the Protocol of Lausanne and the four General Armistice Agreements of 1949 eloquently testifies to the fact that Israel has generally displayed little reluctance to abrogate international agreements unilaterally, tearing them up at will as though they were worthless scraps of paper. 120. Thirdly, thoughtless violation of the fundamental rules of international law and the habitual breaking of international contracts are appropriately accompanied by disdain for, and non-compliance with, the resolutions adopted by United Nations organs. Israel has gone so far as to wage an organized campaign against the United Nations and its principal organs for adopting some of those resolutions, even in cases where they were adopted by unanimous votes. 121.”

   1969-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 24 (1969)

2. “Even though the General Assembly, the Security Council, the Economic and Social Council, the Commission on Human Rights and the International Conference on Human Rights have all reminded Israel of its obligations under that Convention and called upon it to comply with its provisions, in no less than 11 formal resolutions, adopted since June 1967, Israel has persisted in its disregard of the Convention, by its refusal to apply it to the situation at hand, and in its flagrant violation of some of its most important provisions. 119. Nor has this been the sole instance of Israel’s disregard of international agreements to which it is a party.”

   1969-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 24 (1969)

3. “Secondly, respect for the international conventions and treaties to which it is a party, application of their provisions and fulfilment of the obligations arising from them, are elementary ingredients of the pattern of conduct of a civilized State. Yet, in the two years and four months which have elapsed since Israel occupied militarily territories belonging to Arab States, the world has witnessed a continuing, obstinate refusal by Israel to put into effect the Geneva Convention of 1949 relative to the protection of civilian persons in occupied territories, to which Israel and the three Arab States immediately concerned are parties.”

   1969-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 24 (1969)

4. “Nor can sophistic reasoning and semantic acrobatics, however skillfully practised by some of Israel’s spokesmen, succeed in concealing the following facts: that retaining possession of any part of territories occupied by war is an act of annexation, whatever the pretext put forward or the name applied; that such annexation constitutes a flagrant violation of a basic principle of the Charter and the rule of international law, which has been repeatedly reaffirmed by the Security Council; and that such unlawful annexation is, in fact, an application of the principle of territorial expansion through violence, which is an essential ingredient of the Zionist-Israeli programme. 118.”

   1969-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 24 (1969)

5. “The determination of Israel to retain, under all circumstances, its possession of at least some of the lands it occupied by war from the territories of three Arab States, Members of the United Nations, is no longer a secret.”

   1969-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 24 (1969)

6. “First, clear and thoughtless violation of some established rules of public international law which are also fundamental principles of the Charter; foremost among these is the principle of inadmissibility of the acquisition of territory by war or military conquest, a principle which has been reaffirmed four times by the Security Council in the past two years. Nevertheless, Israel has, in fact, formally annexed a portion of the territories it occupied by war in 1967, and has proceeded to create in other portions new situations which, as some Israeli leaders have candidly and clearly explained, aim at creating new “accomplished facts”, the ultimate effect of which would be to render annexation by Israel inescapable and irresistible. 117.”

   1969-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 24 (1969)

7. “Accordingly, its programmes and policies have been racist in inspiration and their practical application has manifested all the familiar features of racism; including racial hatred, racial self-segregation and isolation, belief in intrinsic racial superiority, resulting in the right for racial supremacy and the exercise of racial discrimination in all fields. 116. In the third place, the Middle East crisis reflects certain forms of international conduct which have come to be considered discreditable by the civilized world. These forms of conduct constitute in their totality an integral behavioural pattern which, if followed by all States in their international relations, would lead only to global chaos and perpetual turmoil. I shall now discuss, by way of illustration, three facets of this Israeli behavioural pattern.”

   1969-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 24 (1969)

8. “In the second place, the influence of racism, from which some parts of the world still suffer, is also present in the Middle East crisis which, in one of its aspects, is a crisis caused by the existence of a racist régime; racist in its doctrinal presuppositions, racist in its inspiration and racist in its programmes and actions. The quintessence of Zionism is the call for the Jews of the world to segregate themselves by withdrawing from the countries of their residence and citizenship and to isolate themselves in one country which would become “Jewish”, through the displacement of its non-Jewish indigenous population.”

   1969-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 24 (1969)

9. “The only difference between the residua of die-hard colonialism still existing in some pockets which have thus far defied purification and the Israeli colonial presence since 1967 in the territories of three sovereign States, Members of the United Nations, is this: the Israeli colonial presence was accomplished in an era in which the conscience of the civilized world had totally repudiated the logic of colonialism, and the international community had established an alternative international system on the anti-colonial foundation of what the charter of decolonization calls “the principles of equal rights and self-determination of all peoples”. Nothing is worse than the colonialism which refuses to disappear in the era of the liquidation of colonialism, save that which comes into being in the heyday decolonization. 115.”

   1969-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 24 (1969)

10. “In the first place, the heavy burden of colonialism, which still weighs oppressively on some areas of the world, is felt in the Middle East. For the Middle East crisis is, in one of its aspects, a colonial crisis, where colonialism — clearly reveals itself in all its classical manifestations: the occupation of the land of others, the subjugation of its inhabitants, the exploitation of its resources and the introduction of foreign settlements on its soil.”

    1969-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 24 (1969)

11. “Of all the international questions on the agenda of the present session of the General Assembly, none concerns Kuwait as intensely as what it has become customary of late to call the “Middle East crisis”. 113. This special concern is caused not only by the fact that issue affects the existence, survival and entire destiny of an Arab people, the Palestinian people, as well as the territorial integrity of three Arab States adjacent to Palestine, some of whose lands are presently under Israeli occupation. Besides the national bonds tying us to the peoples and States concerned, there is another reason for our special concern; all the elements which occur in the persistent international problems of today may be found together in the Middle East crisis, as interrelated and interactive ingredients thereof. 114.”

    1969-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 24 (1969)

12. “110. It gives me great pleasure to congratulate the President on her unanimous election to the presidency of the twenty-fourth session of the General Assembly. This is a fitting tribute to the struggle for the emancipation of women in Africa and other parts of the third world. I should also like to congratulate her on the manner in which she has been directing the proceedings of this session, which is a proof of her ability and skill. 111. I should also like to pay a tribute to the memory of the late Mr. Emilio Arenales, who presided over the twenty-third session of the General Assembly. His untimely death shocked us all and was a loss to his country and people. 112.”

    1969-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 24 (1969)