S/PV.2772 Security Council

In accordance with a decision taken at the 2770th meeting, I invite the representative of the Palestine Liberation Organisation to take a place at the Council table. At the invitation of the President, Mr. Al-Kidwa (Palestine Liberation Organization) took a place at the Council table.

In accordance with a decision taken at the 2770th meeting, I invite the representative of Israel to take the place reserved for him at the side of the Council Chamber. At the invitation of the President, Mr. Netanyahu (Israel) took the place reserved for him at the side of the Council Chamber.

I should like to inform members of the Council that I have received letters from the representatives Of Egypt, Jordan, Kuwait, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the Syrian Arab Republic, in which they request to be invited to participate in the discussion of the item on the Council's agenda. In conformity with the usual practice,'1 propose, with the consent of the Council, to invite those representatives to participate in the discussion, without the right to vote, in accordance with the relevant provisions At the invitation of the President, Mr. Hadawi (Egypt), Mr. Salah (Jordan), Mr. Abulhasan (Kuwait), Mr. Al-Kawari (Qatar), Mr.- Shihabi (Saudi Arabia) and Mr. Masri (Syrian Arab Republic) took the places reserved for them at the side of the Council Chamber.

I should like to inform members of the Council that I have received a letter dated 14 December 1987 from the Permanent Representative of the United Arab Emirates to the United Nations, which reads as follows: 'I have the honour to request the Security Council to extend an invitation, under rule 39 of its provisional rules of procedure, to His Excellency Dr. Clovis Maksoud, Permanent Observer of the League of Arab States to the United Nations, in connection with the item presently under consideration, entitled 'The situation in the occupied Arab territories". That letter will be published as a document of the Security Council under the symbol s/19339. If I hear no objection, I shall take it that the Council agrees to extend an invitation to Mr. Maksoud under rule 39 of its provisional rules of procedure. There being no objection, it is so decided. The Security Council will now resume its consideration of the item on its agenda. The first speaker is the representative of the Syrian Arab Republic. The first speaker is the representative of the Syrian Arab Republic. I invite I invite him to take a place at the Council,table and to make his statement. him to take a place at the Council,table and to make his statement. . Mr. MASRI (Syrian Arab Republic) (interpretation from Arabic)3 On behalf of my delegation and on my own behalf, I take this opportunity warmly to ;- . . congratulate you, Sir, on your assumption of the presidency of the Security Council for this month. We are sure that your well-known broad diplomatic experience is the surest guarantee of success for the Council's work. I should also like to thank Ambassador Kikuchi of Japan for the exemplary . manner in which he presided over the Council's work last month. The Council is once again considering the dangerous situation in the occupied Arab territories - a situation which, pursuant to its responsibilities, calls for an end to the Israeli occupation of those lands, thus enabling the Palestinian Arab people to exercise its inalienable national rights and achieve its national aspiration to the establishment of an independent and sovereign State on its national territory, Palestine. No one can disregard the rights and aspirations of a people which over the past 40 years has suffered from terrorism, repression, oppression and all forms of random violence at the hands of Zionist occupation forces reminiscent of the I barbarity the Nazi occupation forces unleashed against the people under their control during the Second World War. The popular uprisings taking place in the occupied Arab-lands - in Gaza, the West Bank, the Syrian Arab Golan and southern Lebanon - against the Fascist Israeli occupation forces clearly deserve the support of the Security Council. The situation before the Council is not merely one of popular unrest or demonstrations; it is the will of a people to resist occupation and the Fascist terrorist measures practised against it by Israeli occupation forces and a racist rdgime waging a,systematic extermination campaign against the inhabitants of the (Mr. Masri, Syrian Arab Republic) occupied Arab lands. This campaign in all its ramifications and aspects smacks of the Crime of genocide, which is prohibited under international law. The Israeli occupation forces, in the face of ,mass popular unrest in the occupied Arab lands, have once again stepped up their repression in which weapons have been used resulting in death and injury to dozens of innocent unarmed demonstrators, including male and female students and a nine-year-old child. The Fascist Israeli behaviour in the occupied Arab territories is intended to bring about the evacuation of the inhabitants, induce a state of psychosis among those in the area who are daily subjected to harassment, house arrest and them collective punishment, and the demolition of houses over their heads forcing to flee the area. The continuation of Israeli occupation of Arab lands represents a constant violation of the United Nations Charter and international .law. Worse still is the fact that the occupation has resulted in the establishment of settlements in the territories to accommodate waves of Jewish immigrmtS. The United Nations has in numerous resolutions condemned Israel’s behaviour and the policy it practices in the occupied Arab lands, the most recent of which were adopted at the current session of the General Assembly and condemned, inter alia, the decision to annex Jerusalem and the Syrian Arab Golan, subject the inhabitants of the occupied Arab lands to exorbitant taxes, establish Israeli settlements, expel the inhabitants of those lands, expropriate their property and subject them to collective punishment, disregard of their fundamental freedoms, interfere with freedom of religion and infringe on the rights’ of Arab families by disregarding their traditions , closing trade-union offices, harassing trade-union leaders, muzzling the press, repression of freedom of opinion, killing and injuring (Mr. Masri, Syrian Arab Republic) of demonstrators, and forced allocation of accommodation. The list of Israel's Fascist activities is lengthy indeed. The General Assembly in its most recent resolutions has also condemned measures taken against students, members of the Palestinian teaching staff in schools, universities and other centres of learning in the occupied Arab territories, including the shooting of unarmed students. The General Assembly has also condemned the campaign of constant repression launched by Israel against the universities and training institutes for professionals in the occupied Palestinian and other occupied Arab territories, and the restrictions imposed upon the academic activities of the Palestinian and Arab universities through interference with teaching methodology, school programmes and textbooks, together with the registration of students and the appointment Of members of the teaching staff in order to ensure control by the military occupation forces, in flagrant violation of the Geneva Convention. Since the end of the nineteenth century our region has seen waves of Zionist colonialist and racist invaders who have spread out from Palestine throughout the entire region with a view to securing total control over its resources and natural wealth, owing to its geographical and strategically important location. These invasions, which have received the support of British colonialism, culminated in the establishment of a Zionist, racist and colonial entity in Palestine, ac$ompanied by the expulsion of a whole people from its land, deprivation of its rights, confiscation of its goods , and harassment within its own occupied territory and elsewhere in an attempt to liquidate it. (Mr. Masri, Syrian Arab Republic) All of this occurred in broad daylight before the eyes of the entire world and with the blessing and support of the colonial and imperialist forces of the world. This gave rise to the tragedy which has no parallel in history. Those imperialist forces have impeded the quest for a just solution to this tragedy, one that would finally and unconditionally end the occupation and enable the Palestinian people to exercise its inalienable national rights, particularly the right to return to its ‘homeland, Pales tine, the right to self-determination . ,’ and the right to independent, sovereign statehood on its own national territory. The Arab people in Gaza, on the West Bank, in the Golan, in southern Lebanon will not cease its heroic fight against expansionist Israeli occupation until the last inch of those occupied lands has been freed and the rights of the people restored. Israel is attempting to implement its expansionist colonial programme in the Arab lands, flouting thereby the will of the international community, the Charter of the United Nations and international law. Israel has undertaken, within the context of this expansionist and aggressive plan, the annejration of the Arab city of Jerusalem, the Syrian Arab Golan and has intensified its expansionist policy in the occupied Arab and Pales tinian territories and in the Lebanon. It is also pursuing this expansionist and aggressive policy by diverting the water resources in the region for the benefit of its activities in occupied Arab territories. All of this continues to occur because of the financial and military support provided by the international imperialist forces which are encouraging the pursuit of this expansionist policy. In this connection, we should mention the attempts made to paralyze the Council and thus prevent it from exercising its (Mr. Masr i, Syrian Arab Republic) responsibilities. under the United Nations Charter and under international law *and ,,, to Prevent it from respecting the provisions of the fourth Geneva Convention, L:-cr.‘. : relating to the Protection of Civilian Persons .in Time of War in .the occupied!+rirS> ‘territories and from compelling Israel’to withdraw from those territories. %_‘,, .,., ; The file on this aggressive, terror is t r6gime is no less distressing than. the I. file built up by the Nazis during the Second World War and the record qf .the racist c rdgime in Pretoria. We are all aware of the appalling crimes corn+ tted by the , Nazis against mankind and the crimes of genocide .perpetrated..by them.. ., T,he s,tqqc@ against that rigime and its fascist practices is currently symbolised ,by..the : ,, 3r: ..,, i . ,_ ..: .I:. struggle of man to achieve freedom, human dignity and the future of generations -to ., - COlE. ., I _ .’ .. _ ;’ ,, .‘i i i. ,y .:.. Peace and security will, not ,prevail in so sensitive and contested ‘a region as the Middle East until we see the total withdrawal of the occupation force from. the Arab and Palestinian occupied territories and until the Arab people is, in a position to exercise its inalienable national rights, including its right to self-determination, the right of return and the right to independent and sovereign statehood upon its national soil in Palestine. TO speak of peace and security in the region without fulfilling these conditions is merely to preach pious words. Attempts are being made to thwart Arab resistance to Israeli occupation and expansion and put an end to the Palestinian cause. However, thanks to the determination of the Arab people to pursue its struggle, those attempts were unsuccessful. Suffice it to mntion the,Camp David agreements, which serve only to increase tensions in the area and to promote the expansionistand colonialist policy pursued by Israel. Those accords resulted in’ the annexation of’ Jerusalem , (i ,:? _ . (Mr. Masr i, Syrian Arab Republic) and U&Syrian Ai& ‘klan, the invasion of the Lebanon, the occupation of the , .% ..I , ,, .“” “’ \ (_l . ;. ,; i ~,,“” . 1 I . ‘_ :.. ,. ;.-. I, _ -. I, ” ,’ , southern ri@i&“of’th&t’ tt&f&jry a$ -in the .strateg& alliance between Washington .’ and &%‘yAfifv.“Qikh parti&p;dtion by the latter in the “Star Wars” programme which will enable it .to ‘*vielop ‘and ‘strengthen its military capacity. , L I The :ptimary ‘iespotisibilities ,of the Security Council require’ it to -a& to put / * an etid’to this behaviour and to adopt measures , ‘notably those under Chapter VII”of the United Natiork'Charter, to cokpel Israel to complywith the United t&tionb“ ' _‘. I + unconditi&&l$"fraia kr'the &&@i& Arab 'and Palestinian territories. Otherwise, the perilous-atid explosive situation resulting from the &ntinued occupation of Arab lands, the establishment of settlements and the denial of the national rights of the Palestinian Arab peoples will present a grave thteat to inter-national peace and security. .“I . : L ,1. -., >‘,.,i _~.I j ., ,,‘I, “_:. ,,. ..,, * j..-- .,:, ., . . . - ,- ,’ L . : ._’ ,- _

I thank the representative _ of the Syrian Arab Republic for the kind words he addressed to me. ._ .I.:. / .(. 1 ,,;: ,).; ., ., ,: i : ,.,I .~ ‘,‘C ‘;,“..‘.’ , ,:.,j;. .’ .- ‘Y?i”“, x a’, .yqD .j~;I;c,:?zd-!rr~~:‘! In view of the lateness of the hour, I would say to members of the Council,. ,,, , . . , : ib I -. ; ‘ 1 L : .~ . and those who have been invited to participate in our meeting, who obviously,have,l_ ,’ “ : :‘I. 1. ‘.’ an interest in our further plans , that it is my intention to hear. two further . I ‘. .- , / ; ; .‘y speakers today on the understanding that the remaining representatives who are ,. ,: , :’ scheduled to take part in today% debate will be able to make their statements c tomorrow at the meeting to begin at 4 p.m. ” i -.,;y~,,.;.*, .a* . .$.“““j*,“~:-. a , ,^ , . . II . i .. ., .d : * : i .., ‘.“’ .e f .rTs:;l- The next speaker is the representative of Rgypt. I invite him to take a place ~ ,.‘.‘<.. : :. >; _. .‘T,( f i^,;.. hT:> v ti -j ‘2 : at the Council table and to make his statement. .,’ - . , , . “: ‘, Mr. RADAWI (Egypt) (interpretation from Arabic): .>. It is .a source, ,pf ’ ., ,- (1, ,. ’ 1 , ,. . . ‘,, ,..:‘ji.3 ;, pleasure for me, Sir, to see you presiding over the work of the Security Council . ,*.;- .,; ,* this month. We have known you as an atiassador of your great country in my capi,.tal ,. ’ and have followed your untiring efforts to develop the bonds of friendship that _, I . bind both Egypt and the Soviet Union. We are fully confident that your well--Vknpwr\ -. , :.:‘-. ,.‘, ‘, .;.;. .:! j i * I_ ,-; ,, J ;::; abilities and great experience will be the best guarantee for the success of ,the ,,.. ,’ r.. 1 ,T ‘C :; ” Council’s work. ,. *., ._ ., .,/‘.‘. -’ I should also like on this occasion to express our deep appreciation to the : : ,,, :’ \“ Permanent Representative of Japan for his successful presidency of the Council last .: ‘- Z,L. month. , .:‘. During the past two weeks the General Assembly considered the question of-she. CA>,< ‘..~ : ., .-I :: .:, . ..“I.. Middle East and the question of Palestine, which constitutes the core and crux of ‘> “: ,., .. ” . _. 2; . ‘. ., :, ” ,‘ <.a:,, .S>. ,. ,i .,~ .,( the Arab-Israeli conflict. The General Assembly adopted a number of important r : .-::‘ . ,. 4 resolutions on those items, foremost among which are the two resolutions pertaining to the convening of an international conference on peace in the Middle East under ’ ,: .p:.- --._ _... 7, r: ‘, _i , ,._I I-*., . >%,.I 1 ~ the .auspices of the United Nations and with the participation of all parties to the conflict on an equal footing. (Mr. Badawi, Egypt) . . , That was ‘not the only call made recently for the convening of an ,: international conference to achievi peace ih the’region: .., 7_. ,.,e_ '!.' . . th~d&&nit meeting of the ,., : Arab States held’in Amman reaffirmed the desire of the Arab nation for peace. It called’forithe convening of ‘the conference with the participation of the five ‘. permanent m&b& of the Security Council as the appropriate way to achieve a just, comprehensive and.peaceful settlement of the conflict. The ink in which those resolutions were written was hardly dry before the ‘. ; ., < ‘.. :,,_ ‘,‘; ; ..* ._ ,: .,I 7 Israeli oCCul?atiOn authorities reacted to them with an extended series of acts of ;:‘).’ I<$ ,. i‘ _’ ‘. :’ .,*‘.‘, d .’ ‘. I’ co&!icin~agains~ the population of the occupied territories, whether in Gaza, throughout the West Bank or in Arab Jerusalem. In fact, the General Assembly, in ,~ its thorough analysis of the situation , seems to have anticipated such reactions by the ochi~tioi’ authorit$es. _.( The General Assembly adopted ‘a number of other resolutions dealing with the question of the illegal, coercive Israeli practices in the occupied territories and ,, ,, called. fir termination of Israeli occupation. . . ,. : ‘, c:. ;. ‘: ,I.-‘ ,:. ,‘ : ~j. During the Assembly’s deliberations Egypt made clear its position in denouncing the acts and practices of certain highly vocal forces in Israel that aim b., ,. .' at impeding peace efforts through the inculcation of mistrust and the escalation of , viol&e against Bales tinians in the occupied ter rftor ies. The last few days continue to bring to us news of the distressing and -5 . . T horrifying events ‘that have resulted in the martydom of a number of unarmed ,” -.. -. ,. ;i , ..I. ; Palestinian youths who have no alternative but to demonstrate against the violence .I ” ,. and oppression df the occupation authorities. This savagery and bloodshed mean . only that those forces in Israel have decided to continue suppressing and . ‘.‘ terrorizing the population of the occupied territories. That path cannot possibly 5 J.2 C$ ;.~c$ i ,; ; !;‘:.; ;’ ‘r <.* .. ‘<;,“l ,,.~, .,r(. ,,. /‘. : :. (I, ’ II-.’ \ f (Mr. Badawi, Egypt) lead to a final, just and comprehensive settlement, for it is the g&th of brtiti -‘“’ ; * ;. -,. ? : .,, “” : - _ .t* _, II 2 + ~ : 5 *.r,r ;..-’ force and of resort & ,..a& -& of’ k&i&& .an‘a”ii;ii5ir6~“a~na.. means”ot’is.ttsihg <~di.LuG.. conflict. ,, .: I .*<,.. = _ i -.I ( ‘, Egypt Condemns all such acts and. calls for their &m&at& &ssation~ “E&t” ” also calls UpOn all peace-loving international forces ‘&inter&@-‘i ‘put an end to these outdated practices and bloodstained actions which do gr&e.harm’to all efforts to achieve a peaceful settlement of the ‘conflict; ” ” ‘. 1 ‘f., .* .; e _ mixe foll&i& these : tia*i& ‘d~velirphen~&; &: ek&&C &ii srg&$$,- &it .i$i@rk+ ~, peace efforts in Israei to. staid resolut&lj againse ‘&it: korcg &i&h”c&e3n&“& fir?: live in the illusions of the past and the dreams of hegelaony, in&rance and ‘-’ ” violence. Frankly, we cannot imagine how Israeli forces and groups that aim at the achievement of a negotiated settlemnt through an international conference on peace in the Middle East can have a clear conscience while all these events are taking place before their very eyes. In the face of the deteriorating situation in the occupied territories, all those who believe in universal human rights without distinction as to race or creed must take a stand to deter the advocates of intransigence, violence and oppress ion. It is the duty of all international organizations and eminent personalities active in the field of defence of human rights to oppose the act taking place in the occupied territories, for they run oounter to all international norms and instruments, foremost among which is the fourth Geneva Convention relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War. For a long time Egypt has been warning thatthe standstill of the peace efforts threatens grave consequences and would lead to the explosion of the situation in the occupied territories. The recent developments bear out the (Mr. Badawi, Egypt) . ,- Egyptian analysis. of ‘the situation naw that the occupied Arab territories are . witnessing. this popular uprising against the practices of the occupation .“., ., authorities. Egypt is convinced that no amount of violence. or ‘oppression can break the Palestinian people’s, will to resist. Bather, it will lead them to carry out ,.' , .Y' .( . & more acts of resistance to occupation and terrorisation. j Suffice it to say that 20 years of occupation of the Arab, territories in the West Bank, Gaza, East Jerusalem and the Syrian Arab Goian Heights have not . ‘A extinpu,L+ed the, flCame ,of nationalism , “.) the sense of belonging, or the awareness of .’ Arab .righ.ts ,on,.~the7 part of all these Palestinian young people who were born under _ /’ - the yoke of that occupation. _.,‘. 1 _, .‘, ,.’ .’ : ; I, .” . , , , . , , . . . , I . . . .’ (Mr. Badawi, Egypt) More bloodshed, oppression, force or violence will not lead to the stabilization of the current deterioratinG situ&ion. That situation canbe ended only by the complete withdrawal of Israel. Pending such withdrawal, the occupying Power must carry out policies that can restore the confidence of the'popufation of' ' the occupied territories in the sincerity of Israeli society's attitudes about peace. Israel's acceptance of the International Conference as a way to achieve peace' and to negotiate with all the other Arab parties on the basis of the‘prfnciples'.~~' .' agreed upon by the international community would be the best guarantee of the, achievement of stability, good-neighbourliness and fruitful, constructive co-operation among all the peoples of the Middle East. Egypt expects the Security Council to shoulder its responsibilities for international peace and security by reaffirming the resolutions it has previously adopted on the situation in the occupied territories and reaffirming that the Israeli occupying Power must undertake to implement strictly the Geneva Convention Relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War. It must renounce all the shooting and other acts of violence against the unarmed Palestinian youth. The Council must demand that Israel desist forthwith from all such acts. My country believes that if, confronted by such a grave situation, the Security Council were to fail to shoulder its responsibilities, the occupying authorities might believe that they had a free hand to continue carrying out these illegal practices against the Palestinian people. We therefore once again call upon the Council to take a resolute, unanimous stand against these acts. The PRESIDENT finterpretation from Russian): I thank the representative of Egypt for the kind words he addressed to me; The next speaker isthe representative of Jordan. I invite him to take a *’ place at the Council table and to make his statement. Mr. SALAH (Jordan) (interpretation from Arabic): First, Sir, I extend to you our warmest congratulations on your assumption of the presidency of the SecurJty Council for this,month. We have every confidence that your competence and experience will enable the Council, under your guidance, to work effectively to face the challenges of more than one important cuestion threatening international peace and security. I extend our thanks and appreciation also to your predecessor, Ambassador Kikuchi of Japan , on the exemplary way in which he presided over the Council, last month. I also express our gratitude to the members of the'security Council for allowing my delegation to participate in the Security Council's consideration of the item "The situation in the occupied Arab territories". There was an uproar throughout the world when Israel invaded Lebanon in 1982. At the time, that uproar was reflected in the world press - and rightly SO.- It exposed the expansionist aims behind that invasion by Israel and emphasized its adverse conseuuences. Faced with that uproar, Israel'sought, in co-operation with its friends and supporters, to remove the problem of Palestine and the deteriorating situation in the occupied Arab territories from the purview of the intense media coverage, and even from the scope of the international diplomatic activity, if possible. Israel's aim was to prevent this problem and the deteriorating situation from being highlighted and, hence, to prevent Israel from being put in the spotlight as an,occupying Power, thereby exposing its practices and policies towards the Arab citizens in those territories and its nefarious role in exploiting the situation in the Middle East region, as well as the adverse effects that such acts have on international peace and security. IsraelBs leaders and those who plan its foreign policy believe that if they can succeed in diminishing international concern over the situation in the occupied (Mt. Salah, Jordan) territories, the world.will grow accustomed to Israel’s presence’ as an occupying &;e’;-id ‘w*fli.do~& ‘t&.is.z-pt:: it is it’ &.‘ ‘,, 2. ~ -. ,,.*.,. “.” 2, i. ,:...‘* :; :...,. I. ., ..- All cf Israel’s other machinery began to intensify their activities and tc’ ‘, ” ,. seek, by various means, to consecrate this reality in the context of’s prbdess of’. political engineering vis B vis the situation of the occupied territoriesana”the Arab population. They did that in the belief - a false belief - that the Arabs would accept Israel’s wishes as a fait accompli, once the world’s concern over the problem of Palestine had waned. Hence, Israel began to intensify its political plans and programmes - foremost among them being the endeavour to break out of its international isolation, while consolidating its creeping.annexation of Arab territories. Its leaders wished to solve Israel’s problems.while maintaining Israel as an occupying State and by intensifying the occupation rather than putting an end to it. Thus, Israel’s leaders have begun to ascribe the problems - the most prominent of which is the present civil disobedience in the WestBank and Gasa - to external factors and reasons. Indeed, this was done by the-representative of Israel before the Council last Friday evening, during the first of this series of Council meetings convened to discuss the situation in the occupied Arab territories. He explained the Arab resistance to occupation as being the result of instigation from abroad. The Israeli representative went even further in insulting the intelligence Of the members of the Council and their thorough knowledge of the facts of the Israeli-Arab conflict by stating that such Israeli actions as’brutal murder and oppression are admissible under the principles of international law. Of course, he ‘did not identify the principles he had in mind. 8e merely gave comparative examples of various acts of violence that had occurred in several countries and ‘that had not been the suhject,of consideration by the Security Council. He forgot - conveniently - that none of those States is occupying the territory of . . ,:. .“. other ,States and none of them has been dominating another people for more than 20 Years in the most heinous way. He forgot ;x~oqper!~ently~,~, .,that,, tge, ,)?.a$ VTfrJ’!ytt,yn .- ,. . , : c, of the.Secur$ty Council is to maintain international peace and security,.and to *,:_. ST. I ., : ~ 1. deter aggsesgive,, non-peace-Foving Stgtes; ,,- .)._ and that Israel and South A$xr,ica are the ., * i ’ only two States which fit that description. cc *‘( ,, ,’ . . L, ,‘ ; ( / : . . ,_ ; ,y. .‘; . 1. . L - ,_ ; : : ~’ j I i .: _ : ,. -. : ’ ,. ,I 1.p “. , . , ; _’ I.,.. ‘ .: .: I ., * L. ,.~ : ” . ‘,’ ‘, -, ..” ..~ ‘.._ : ., . (Mr. Salah, Jordan) ‘. Bence members must surely have understood the significance oi the statement of" hf I. i-& iel i ;-; : -\:;,: ;* . . il. -: :3 -7 AA.. 2;) 1 h+& &;JYteh '~. say...pgi &$;;~t;$;fon in *e &sT*ank the repre&%&ti& " i n and Gaza involved‘acts of legitimate resistance and was an'internal“quetition ior- ~ . . .: ! ,a Israel, and that the resistance is instigated from abfoad'by'ofher &ional'$rties having *eir :&& mtives. : z ::' .: . '1' -:*.‘. * ; I .: ; All members know the conventional wisdom that the oppressor'can use anything as a pretext for his oppression. Thus Israel uses'anything to'justify its brutal . "i ,l. ;.*a,. g T, ,:. :; acts .hf "oppression as;+.ti &i .,di'vilian.~&lh~i,;n i; &Y&ti+pi&~ iraG.. 2 T ;;' ",&I / :" ,o territories. ;..‘:~:r.l.:r:iep:‘ * But allow me to-give 'the'Counci1 an accuiate"p&&$ of‘& situation. The Palestinian Arab people, chafing under occupation, has long'been _,,. '." ";. '-.:':i ; _,') frustrated and humiliated as a result of Israel's tendency, esp&&&/y"in tf%iast two years, to strengthen its actions of annexation of the occupied &&&&rit&ii&;~ Young Palestinians who are as old as the occupation itself have begun to lose hope of attaining their 'freedom and getting rid of the humiliation of foreign rule and hegemony. ! : I Members'will.appreciate'~e depth'&& bi&ern&&'&J depriva&k‘ -. .a.,,. experienced by 'the Palestinians when they recall the"h'ideonsne& of an*y '&%!rn'~f $5 ,; !‘.G :: 'But the present situation is even worse; given the cruelty and ' '%' ." foreign rule. brutality of the Israeli occupation , which surpasses cknventional foreign occupation be&use of the systematic endeavour to eradicate the .moral and physical presence of the-Palestinian 'people. There have been impartial international reports about the hideousness and gravity of the occupation;&hich touches' on ak'~'~" .' aspects of life,'violating all the fundamental'freedoms of 'thee Palestinians.' :: .'_" "-. .‘Y The Pal&stink citizen is not spared any of the 'forms of Is'raeli oppresSiOn*' unless he surrenders his fundamental rights and freedoms. '. :.: If we consider Israelis conduct against the Palestinians , We find *at m&t. of the hu&b y&gj& pr&+id;d '.' .' for in the Universal lleclaration of Human Rights have been violated. .;_ '_ . . . ! ~-::Fj As a result Of this situation of,.fore;gn ocq@at%on,,imposed by,various,,* ,i;;ri;-.f .y: f%, .yf .'( y,,y.".:. .? " 1“-~ ' 7. .*', ) .,t . .~ Israel! practices.and policies , an explosive situation has developed among the * 2 .'.,'Z :,, *: ,., Palestinians,,whose frustration and hopelessness ast find expression.,$%It was only ~,.( ,:- , / . : I. . / ,, !". :. ,.: natural that their feelings would be manifested in resistance against the occupation and its policies., ;._._ Hence students deldonstrated in Gaza, Khan Yunis and Nablus and in.universities *..: ; in the West Bank, and' citizens in those ar~eas,,,demonstrated.against the,occupation .., ! . . . . :.. ,.A ,, . . ,, ;. :. .~j regardless of the direct result of their demonstrations.- be it a premeditated '..“'"DIF,~,!,$ i,Z' EL ,,: ,-, v,: ". < 1 : : lib--i "accident" or any other kind of,response. What is important is that the Palestinian people,under occupation has rightly come to feel that any, such Israeli r; ;;,& ; :. -, :a. "S ,, act.ts an aggression against Lt. Possibly that is what caused the incident in *. which.the Israeli settler was stabbed in Gaza a few days ago. Such an act !s a result of the Israeli settler colonialist policy. Israel has confiscated one third - . , of the land of:Gaza, whichis inhabited by 650,000 Arabs, in,an area..of no sore :, -. .~ . . _,I,,* .~*.-; .: . . i : ;' _,' , . ‘ than 370 square kilometres. The settler possibly lives on and exploits land . :- I. belonging to a Palestinian citizen expelled from it by Israel to force him to work in Israel's factories or to suffer unemployment. -. ; .' ,. That 'anomaly was recently expressed by none other than the Foreign Minister of -~. :‘; “ . ,' Israel in commenting on these events. Anyone who believes that the cause of the j blocdy events now taking place in the West Bank and Gaza are individual incidents, .'i~ '. ..c :.:.,~‘ 1. or that they are instigated from outside, is grav.ely mistaken. Such ,events are the.. . .:: '$. "' result of the continued Israeli occupation and Israel's conduct and practices aimed .*+si., I at consolidating its occupation. Hence in Gaza and the West Bank there is an .* overwhelming popular revolt, ,an expression of rejection ,of the occupation.-. 1.. _, ,. r. ,>' . . ,, I . . _i . . . "L i', . 5: - ;s. : :.. \ ; , : ~, ., . I That was confirmed by Abba Eban , the former Foreign Minister of Israel, when he said, ..“T.be ma+! .PT-e 9flr ‘3:. yyest &$e leak ~?+v -p~J$#@ &q$.@yb~~ pw I- ..f.‘. .I . : i: , I.i‘e’” light at the end of the tunnel”. ..: _ .~. .~_,-i^ , But how did Israel respond? Having heard the reply of .the fsaelL . . -J .. ,. ,. : “!, -., ,. S.-i representative here, we should not be surprised by the reply of fsrael’s leaders to ,_ .. ..,. .; the Palestinians who demonstrate and call for an end to the Israeli oyupation., ,., “,i’ . 1” The cities of the West Bank and Gaza and the Palestinian refugees have been .’ , I .;. transformed into something akin to a battlefield, but the battle is between an army that wants to impose occupation and civilians who only want freedom and dignity. Just as Israel’s representative disregards the truth, Israel’s leaders disregard the reality of the Palestinians under occupation. Hence they saw a threat to fsrael’s security in students ’ demnstrations and the closing of stores in protest against the occupation and the murder of Palestinian civilians. The Israeli forces responded by opening fire indiscriminately against the ‘: demonstrators. So far they have killed more than 10 civilians, most of them children, and they have injured scores of people. They have also arrested hundreds of others. Israeli forces have used helicopters, half-tracks, and various &her weapons to intimidate and terrorize the civilians. Even hospitals and ambulances have not been spared Israeli acts of aggression. Students and women fell~uictims in Ehan Yunis, the village of Nahallia and the refugee camps of Ballatpa, Allasza and Jeball ia. This is an extract from a report by Agence France Presse of 9 December concerning the situation: “In the Jeballia camp, which seems to be in revolt, stones and calls for free&m are met with deadly bullets and shells, while an Israeli soldier cries, ‘Now blood will flow!’ , and Israeli forces are mobilized near, the mosque and the hospital. Suddenly an old woman begins to tear off her ‘clothes, ‘weeping and raising her h&nds heavenward, crying s Onk Of my .~.MjUS~ ..f&lm .‘d”-maFQqrI ;, “‘The boy; Hattem Alsis, was hit ‘in ‘kh& &ad a minutes before by a bullet fired by an I$raeli unit stationed & top Fall& &ti~o~. ’ Fall& &ti~o~. ’ This was preceded by the martyrdom ok Rai’d Shehadi, who is This was preceded by the martyrdom ok Rai’d Shehadi, who is ., ’ ., ’ 2pbars &” , 2pbars &” , The ti&pd& goes ck td indicate the tension ‘prevailing in Gaza,. where the Israeli The ti&pd& goes ck td indicate the tension ‘prevailing in Gaza,. where the Israeli soldiers had opened fire over the demonstrators .out$ide the Gazd hospitial. soldiers had opened fire over the demonstrators .out$ide the Gazd hospitial. ,, ,, ,..I . ,..I . , “. : , “. : , ;_ ,‘;! ,;‘,.‘,‘.‘I‘-‘, , , ;_ ,‘;! ,;‘,.‘,‘.‘I‘-‘, , , , I..,, ‘, I..,, ‘, (Mr. Salah, Jordan) sons has ,.1.1,. .I few of the Reuters quoted international relief workers as saying that on 9 December at least ninc.Palestinians had.been injured.. ,,Palestinian children, includingtwo girls, one age 10 and the other 13, had been moved to the hospitals. That scene.is repeated continuously in various cities in the West Bank and the Palestinian. refugee camps.: The most recent instance took place at noon today in the city Of ' Khan Yunis, where Israeli forces killed a young man, Hassan Abu Garun, and injured : six others. fn the light of this explosive situation; we find'it necessary to recall agacn that if the Security Council is to preserve its credibility and prestige tid t0. maintain the confidence of the peace-loving peoples of the world in our international Organization it should consider the crux of the problem and scientifically establish the cause and effect. The real problem lies not'in the legitimate Arab acts of resistance against Israel and Israel's illegal response to it, but in the Israeli occupation of the Arab territories and Israel's desire to annex those lands, after depopulating~them, rt began that process in 1967, when iS annexed the Arab city of Al Quds, and it subsequently annexed the Golan in 1981. 1'. P Such an understanding will give the Council the true picture of the Arab-Israeli conflict and allow members to distinguish the cause and effect in the series Of developments taking place in the occupied Arab territories. .There is first the problem of occupation. Then there are Israel's Oppressive practices. Finally, there are the Arab acts of resistance. Therefore, if the Council wants to consider seriously the deteriorating situation in the occupied Arab territories, it cannot consider any of those problems in isolation. Nor can it consider them as a whole'without placing them in their proper causal context. The basis is the Israeli occupation of the West Bank, Gaza and the Golan and then the arbitrary military rule over approximately 2 million Arabs. That has naturally'; led to the displacement of some 3 million Palestinians, about 2 million of whom are refugees. sc,;r.tJe.red all .-over the. world, including thos.e camps in Lebanon whose inhabitants are subjected to continuous aggression, especially by Israel. Thus the Israeli occupation seeks to undermine the two nrost important objectives of the Palestinian Arab people - the return of the displaced refugees . and freedom for the Palestinians chafing under foreign domination. But instead of seeking to put an end to its occupation of the Arab territories in order to enable th.e, Palestinians to exercise those two natural rights, -Israel has taken an opposite tack by seeking to consecrate the occupation. It has given the refugees a choice I between assimilation in the societies in which they nw are and continuous displacement. As regards those Arabs chafing under its domination, it has ‘given them .a choice between accepting the fait accompli and departing. But the Palestinians have a right ‘to another legitimate option, that Of freedom and return. I believe the whole world, including the Council, supports therii in that. It is the duty of all:of us to seek to enable them to achieve that noble objective, which is enjoyed by the peoples of the States we represent. I believe that only in that context can we understand the nature of the recent developments unfolding in the West Bank and Gaza and those that have occurred in the Syrian Golan on previous occasions. Such events will be repeated in all those ‘. ‘4i .,*. “?q areas, because as long as there is Israeli occupation of the Arab territories there will be an Arab resistance aimed at getting rid of the occupation and not merely obtaining privileges or humanitarian treatment under such occupation. The attempt to imbue the Israeli occupation with a humanitarian character by referring to VariWS cosmetic administrative and economic actions is proof of Israel’s expansionist intentions, and hence is additional justification for resistance. That ,is matched by ,the attempt to delegitimize the struggle of the Palestinian , people by branding it as terrorism and extremism. * It therefore becomes, clear that Israel's pr&ices and arbitrary policies are symptoms Of the,basic disease of occupation and that',the.PalestiMans* legftimte resistance is the cure for that disease, which has been a cause of ,suffering. rt may appear that the Arab violence is a reaction ta the repressive.acts and inhundn . policies of I-sraeli organs. That is what Israel wants to convince the world of,, but I am confident the.members of the Council realize that the reason for the current conflict is the continued occupation, just as fsrael's policies and Oppression, first, ,are a means to consecrate the occuwtion and;"s&ndly, are""' ' aimed at responding to the legitimate resistance. .,.. . . . ."I, .1 We all realise that the Israeli acts of oppression increase the Arab acts'of.' violence'and resistance, because those Israeli acts of oppression create a difficult psychological situation and a tense political condition arong the ' Palestinians. If there are feelings of hatred , rejection 'and vengeance on the part of the Palestinians, such feelingsare the result of the ill treatment, aggression and injustice they are Subjected to by Israel. -. What does Israelexpect from Palestinian students,, one Of idiom W&S kil,l13$ by the bullets Of it6 Soldiers? Whatdoes Israel want from the sons Of' the OCCUpied‘ territories while they escort the funeral of their martyr - or more than one ' martyr - every day? Does it expect'them to throw flowers at the o-ceupation soldier6 instead of stones and Wolotov cocktails? Did the members af the French resistance during the Naii occupationof France behave any differently from tlie’hy in which the Palestinians are behaving now? Did the American resistance behave-~ " differently? The sons of the Palestinian people have even resorted to Gandhf's" 'non-violent, passive resistance, but to no avail. ,. : I. _' .a* These are the elements of the volatile situation in the occupied Arab te~I$Xi@+ "PI~,.8~QIP~~le.~Xsr$el~i Qc~upa.tiQn,,~which inflames the-Palestinians*: " :)‘+A _,,_ _ d. : 4 .,"."_l .I..2 L_ . I nafionalifeelinqs; cruel.and illegal policies; deteriorating social and economic Q@itiQnS,. TO that list we must add Israel's arrogance and disregarb'for the 2 . I realities and.dangers of occupation. We must add an army of occupation that employs the most sophisticated and hideous means of oppression; settlers that come from all over the world through suspect deals; politicians who try to outdo one another .in ?xt~rPi.snflend;~n-sIputing slogans.of ,hegeuony.and expansionism. : ,r. p ,a. .- I. They“ are all playing an infernal game targeted against the,Palestinian.Arab people in the West Bank,and Gaza. .I Palestinians under occupation are witness to the confiscation of their lands; the demolition of their homes; the hideous exploitation of their resources; the' i.n$Jry, imprisonment and murder of their children; the confiscation of their freedom; disregard f,or their dignity. They are witness to an imminent threat to their future; they see not a glimmer of hope. -, ; ,(.. ,,,.iT$e,ir .respowe.to all this is p0sitive action: .resistance. Resistance is' !. 1' . mOgIaslly, legally and politically justifiable. The Palestinians under occupation do not need instigators. from abroad; their motivation is at home: .the hideous occupation and its attendant brutal policy of oppression, which is unjustifiable and .illegal. When the occupier attempts to perpetuate its occupation and change th:$ legal Status,.dem~graphic character and Arab nature of the territories it ocdupies, it !,a? no legal justification. We therefore expect the Security Council .*. t0 denounce the Continued Israeli occupation of Arab territories and Israel's .., policy of attempting to enshrine that occupation. We expect-the Council to call upon Israel to end its acts of aggression and oppression, including firing on civilians, and to begin to put into place conditions conducive to moving forward the peace process, through the convening of an international conference under 'i.1 : united Nations auspices, with the-.partici.pa.tion+of .a11 parties,-in &pleman~@@n,~ - : I' .,: i. ‘>" , .- I. 1.. ,.ii". _ of United Nations resolutions relevant to the question in its prin_C_iQal .conteYrtC,rl~: .; ., ,, . :, .., ..- *’ ,m the Arab-lsraeli conflict, first and foremost the binding resoluk&ns of the *,__. :I': 2.' ;; . . Security Council. ., ,

I thank the representative of Jordan for the kind words he addressed to me. _> .' I had intended to adjourn the meeting following the statement of the. .,, I I ', l,. _. .., 'I L'. ,, :. ', :: --, I<> .' ; .::,:. ::. a 2. representative of Jordan, but 'the representative of Israel has-,asked to ~pe~k~~$.~, :-, ,. . , d..' : :, exercise of the right of reply. I therefore invite that representative to,take a,. , .,', place at-the Council table and to make his state,ment. ; ,_ .i4..*. _i ,_._, :: 7 ~ +' > i- Mr. NETANYARU (Israel): Again, it is almost B o'clock, end the,Councis. ,, has just spent a long hour in a debate - if one can call it that - laden with jargon, 1Ong on rhetoric and very short on fact. This will extend to tomorrow,.,and maybe it will extend to the next day; because the'idea i.s to axtend. Just as theIb:.r "_ ,'.' ;,:' .:.:.. 1;j.i a._'. .' I ,,__ i idea here is to extend the convening of this body to allow politiw.1 .attacks. -, .71,s ‘ :- against my country, that idea is matched in the field by calls to extend the ,.,_ ,.~. _. violence there: extend the violence there, extend the attacks here;, political, attacks, physical attacks feeding one upon the other, to occupy the time of -this : body, which should be devoted to other things. *. ~. . /_ -. I think we saw this evening a demonstration of what,,Fe purpose is, at least,,, _. " ._ t : I . .‘ . . :..: . . here. The purpose is not to discuss the recent incidents; the purposeeis to use:,,. the convening of the Council to launch a full-scale political assault On the very.. ,: j J..-.l foundations of the Jewish State, to brand it as nf.llegitimte", as *racist", a-s ,>. WFasciSt" and so on, and of course not really to deal with the facts .-:,,..$he ,fa:!+\s+ kc ,->.,.- ,, I.2 .I ..h ada* L' are not interesting. . . , . 1 (Mr. Netanyahu, Israel) . I found it‘interesting that the last attack was delivered by the . -. .; __ ,. * ‘. “illegal, oc&paefon”; :I the “annexation” and the “inevitable hopelessness” - that is his the& - of young’ Palestinian ‘Arabs born to this occupation that “denies them ., . their national rights’. That frustration bursts out in demonstrations. That is .,‘. the line repeated.endlessly not only by speakers here, but by others as well) this is an orchestrated campaign. ‘I t i I ‘,I , . I : ..;,* - .* ,~ . . > . . ‘,., . I think the’ rep&&&ative o’f ‘&&an conveniently f&g;‘& that the annexation of J$iea-Sama;ia :G& .:a -&.gti annexation. ‘ii f:‘; ; _ F&r 19 years, Jordan first annexed then iklegaily occupied what it calls the West Bank. By ‘the way, until that time, 1949, it never called it the West Bank; it called it Judea and Samaria; in the Unil& Nations documents one finds Judea and Samaria. That occupation was also an attempt to change, to extinguish any of the long-standing historic and actual Jewish connect$ons, starting with the eradication of the name and, upon occupation 1’ and ‘&nexa&on, going ‘& to ‘the destruction ‘of J”ewish &munities that had lived ,.. . there, ih’Hebron for ‘example, since time immemorial - and, of course, the destruction of other Jewish towns and villages in Judea-Samaria. They conquered,. they ;changed the name, but one thing they did not do - and nobody did - was to say a word at that time or at any time throughout those 19 years about Palestinian nationalism, about frustration , about the hopelessness of .<.’ ,, ., ., . : youth .“’ ‘j They did not ‘tdlk about Palestinian nationhood because it did not exist then. ‘“‘Tl’ke ‘were other sourties of unrest and disturbance under that annexation of .,I.. ‘. Jud&Samaria: The representa-tive of Jordan spoke about brutality, murder and OppreSsion? I should like to remind him of some incidents that took place during . _ . Jordan,s. lg+ar && .. , -. c., In October 1954, according to a 26 October 1954 dispatch from Beirut Radio, z: : army was called in: a state of emergency was declared ;, an offjcial announcement miiL! : :. ,- , '., ; ' ;I,, “,F' :, said that 14 were killed, with 10 in Amman, and 117 injured,,while the,Fdia . c.: claimed that 90 were killed. _.; .-., ~..‘.,*:.; '11 -, .'). *" Then, in April 1957 actions were taken by King qusseint there were riots in .I 2 Jerusalem and Ramallah; emergency regulations entered into force; a curfew was 1 . . imposed in Jerusalem and Ramallah; newspapers were closed; municipal councils in ,. ,. :'..:' ,' I * ; e..:;. : :., ,: ', (, "'.Z - ::.. .~, ::‘. :' ;,,;, ;. _ ->: Il, T-r _ ,,+.,.. Bethlehem, Nablus, Tulkarm and Jenin were dismissed; there were wtde :., I arrests,, ,,I 7: 1: J., > ,, : ; ,: J r, . gfJ:*‘ L‘ including 169 UNRWA teachers. That was from Al-Difa' of 19 April 1957. . . .:. .'. . . . i ,A.- ‘_ ,’ (Mr. Netanyahu, Israel) The following is taken from Al-Nahat: on 24 April 1963, in JerUSalemr 11 ~killecT;‘-~~.Iwij~~d,..incliidi~~'~7 girls sbudents; .ix J$;maii*,;', on.~:,.kiileh, 35 wounded; in'Jenin and Irbid, dozens wounded; 120 politicians.arrested. On 22 November 1966, according to Reuters and Al-Goumhuriyar Some 200 students barricaded in a school in Nablus; they stoned the police cthich used tear-gas to disper-se them. But they do not normally use tear-gas. Again, this is from Al-Goumhuriyat Riots in Nablus and in Hebron; police open fire against ,' . . _. demunstr'ator$‘% the 19th; tanks used to &ell'den&strators in Rablus and Hebron . ' on the 20th; some‘5u killled and wounded in Nablus and later more killed at the funeral. No Palestinian nationalism. One will not find a word about it. No pent-up frustrations of Palestinian youths. One will not hear 'a word about that either. No talk about ending the illegal occupation. But one does see the application of means of "restoring order" that Israel would never dream of using. We never fire point-blank with Browning .5 submachine-guns into a crowd. We did not put our tanks in front of refugee camps and blast away. We would not and we do not, because if we did that is the number of casualties we would have. The Jordanian Legion was liberated from any restraint, any inhibition, any constraint on the use of fire-arms: They did not fire rubber bullets; they did not have orders that only if their life were in jeopardy they fired. No, they simply fired away. So to receive these lectures from the representative of Jordan - I do not want to say it is insulting, because it does not insult me - amuses me. The same goes for the message we heard from the representative of Syria. But what can I say? Re spoke - with feeling - about the Palestinian Arabs, about the . *systematic extermination and genocide". A few persons lost their lives, it is true. I said on Friday - and I stand by what I said - that we regret that loss of life. Did Syria regret the loss of lives of thousands of Palestinian Arabs that it slaughtered.in. the camps in-Lebanon, that 'it slaughtered in the Bekaa Valley? 1. :.r should we call that - and is it not - systematic extermination? The representative of Syria spoke of occupation and international law. Syria occupies 60 per cent of Lebanon; there is no Geneva convention there and we did not :. hear about that. Then he spoke &out dozens of innocent demonstrators, and f thoughts What about those people who demonstrated against the oppression of the Syrian r6gime in the town of Hamah? What happened to them when they were cut down, when 10,000 persons lost their lives? *.,, . He taiked about the disregard of traditibn,. but did not mention the mosques in Hamah - some of them ancient mosques - destroyed under rubble by Syrian artillery. He spoke of muzzling a free press. I assume'he spoke from the vantage point of the free press in Damascus. I , Y But most interesting, he spoke about the racist r&gimes, that is, 'equating Israel to the Nazis. He said: We are all aware of the appalling crimes committed by the Nazis against, humanity;" As well you 'should, Sir, because you are holding the most notorious, arch-Nazi criminal, Eichmann's deputy, Alois'Buehler, -in your >. ,, capital. You had the gall to speak about the Nazis. You speak from knowledge.' Mr. Buehler is protected by your President and his brother. He is instructing them in techniques of crowd control and other things that he brought with him from his fruitful experience. Then we heard the expressions of the representative of Egypt. , 1"must say I was troubled to hear from a representative who know& the history of the Gaza Strip and I shall not take up any more of the Council's time - but if it becomes’ necessary we shall on another occasion - to describe what happened in the Gaza Strip before the six-day war, when it was under Egyptian rule; before there was" II _, ; /,_ _ ., \ .,, (Mr. Netanyahu, Israeli talk of Balestinfan nationalism.,, hop~elessness,. desperation, the techniques of-.crad r,“,,j-. J *:‘;‘:‘,kL ” :r4 r _ ** control used by Egyptian forces there, the riots, the killings, and the absence of law. For that matter, I shall not go into-a discussion of the riots, demonstrations and loss of life that have continuously plagued Egypt in recent years and the actions taken by the Esyptian Government to quell those . ‘> -; -: demonstrations. They certainly merit close scrutinity by anyone criticizing the actions that my Government has taken under strict and 4ifficult:orders for its <i’,i,.: _I. .’ forces. They merit comparison .. , and we shall not fall short in that comparison. ,.,, _’ ,’ The attempt here to create a political argument that the source of the COnfliCt that we witness in the Middle East - it was repeated again - the core of the conflict in the Middle East, is the fact that 20 years ago Israel repelled an attack on its life and was able to drive away forces staged on the killing grounds of Judea, Samaria and Gaza that threatened to extinguish its very life force. The attempt to describe that as the source of the conflict is absurd. The attempt to say that the disturbances in those specific territories began in 1967 is absurd. I, But f do not want to get into a long discussion about the conflict. I have talked about this, but I shall repeat it - if r,may summarize this point - merely because these statements were hurled at my country in an attempt to open up here a political front for broadside attacks. This ‘is not our interest. Our interest is to try to deal with the facts and explain what is happening. I did not notice anyone dealing with the facts. Let .me try to do so briefly. The facts are that the incidents we’are now .witnessing began a few days ago and were then primed up by a carefully orchestrated campaign. There were two important incidents; the first was on 9 December. with the murder of Schlomo Saker, who was shopping in an Arab market; he was stabbed to .death by a mamber of 417, (Mr. Netanyahu, Israel) Yasser Arafat ‘6 personal bodyguard force, which took credit - that is. the word - for that action. On 10 December, the day after Saker’s murder, there was a traffic accident in Jabaliya near Gaza in which four Arab bystanders lost their lives,, On . the day of that traffic accident Al-Fair , :_ a pro-PLG paper in Jerusalem : by the way a paper that did not exist there before 1967 - said: “This was an intenti.onal and deliberate assaultW - the accident. And all PLO, organs spread the idea, this canard, that the accident yas caused not merely by Jews avenging Saker.ls death; , .’ this was caused by Saker ‘8 brother , they said, who was dr Lving the truck,,when _ it, ‘:: hit the bystanders - which is, of course, nonsense. Here was a deliberate, attempt. to incite passion and disturbances , accompanied on that same date - 10 December...- by a broadcast from Baghdad, from Arafat, exhorting the,Arab population “to .:,!, increase the disturbances and to teach the enemy an unimaginable lesson”. And one of Arafat’s advisers, Bassam Abu Sharif suggested that would be “a message to Reagan and Gorbachev”. Reagan and Gorbachev”. : _' :. . (Mr. Netanyahu, Israel) Now;'&) 11 D&erhber, following those exhortations, there were disturbances in i. '-. I . : in Jebzliyd~~abd~ -on '12 Decen;ber, in'Dallata“and'Kalandia. ‘I saibj'on'Fr'iday*;" that none of this was spontaneous, that there were attempts to 'orQani;te 'in-t&ember 'an incitation of riots that were boosted by those events. I I men'tioned a few dates 'in &vember,'not all of them: 2 November, the &four Declaration; 8 November, the Amman Sum&t; 19 November, the tenth anniversary of Sadat's visit to iferusalem;‘li December, the twentieth-annlverb&ry.of *the founding i .,, - , Of the~jPF~~:‘.12.'~~~e~$r‘;'th.~-end~~f the,United'Nations Middle East debate and 1 J&&$&2$l .$g..g $& of he f&u&ding 'of ($6 Fatah. All'those dates converge, and they &x&Zge annually as one can see by the graph of violence which rises in anticipation and in exhortation 'i'deiiberate incitation and deliberate exhortation around those dates.. That is exactly what we are witnessing right nOw, with the one -/ added difference that they were able to use' that unfortunate accident and the murder of Shlomo Saker, which the PLO itself committed, to generate an acceleration of this violence. I just want to describe here a typical disturbance, because it is important to understand how it breaks out. A typical disturbance breaks out when students are either going to school or leaving school after school hours. We have had hundreds of incidents where PLO masked men enter a girls' school - typically they do not do it in a boys' school; they do it in a girls' school. They come in, with clubs or other weapons; they force the girls into the streets; they stone the school yards. One school principal came to our security forces and said: "Please protect the schools build me a new wall to keep these people out because there is no way that we can prevent this violence." (Mr. Netanyahu, Israel) They forcibly force the girls out into the street - forcibly. ,_ Ambassador ‘_ Badawi said here “they have no other alternative”. He is absolytdly righf.:,. ,C.,lrlT’ . . Frequently, anyone who wishes to stay in the school ydrd and not go .into.,9e,,str$$t __ - : : .,I *(.‘1 4 has no other alternative: he will be clubbed. They push, the glr+yq inW tie .: .I: I .I ., ,;: .,. street, and occasionally some boys; they form a mObi and they force a confrontation i with the security forces who reach the scene, usually in small numbers in small I’, patrols. They then surround them, throw bottles at them - sometimes, ~olot6V _ I / _ .’ ., :... ‘.. _,) .’ - cocktails - bars, stones, rocks and jeopardise their lives. ,Some ,rwqonq. lz$ey++.;_::i /.... ., ‘. _ ,L ,.: .s .._. place; some violence takes place; and all of that is inflamed by ,these..&eop~.e~,i~ ;.‘. .- . .; a,:. : ., . ,- :-~i’ :i .I .* the rear; by that time they have taken off their masks; they do not have a . .’ I ; :.:. problem: there is a crowd. They incite, they force, they co$mer ,the.y+,fnfl.M!e,.~n~ _, .:, -1 ,1 . . then they bring it here. ‘, The way to bring it here is to orchestrate a propaganda campaign. And of . course the call for the convening of the Security Council starts the cycle that I . _ .‘..’ , _‘ describe before: violence, political debate ; .: violence, political .,debate; .in ,or,der i,,.,T: .- ,d. -’ ._, : :.. 2. -* .I to keep it going as long as they can-. : ,, .i , ,. y.,( ~ They do the same thing with the hospitals. I said on Friday that the cla$mc. . . . - the assertion, that our forces block the hospital entrances is a flat lie. It is a >- ,. ..~ .- flat lie, but what is important to understand is who does block the hospital, __, -, 1 : entrances. It is the same people who organize the demonstrations. They prevent!, the Israeli forces from opening up the hospitals. If YOU try to open up, the ,.,., .‘, :;:, ,,. :. .:. - ~ .._. _ ..; ,, ; I hospitals they throw stones, rocks and Molotov cocktails to prev,ent any medical:; j : :~,;“. ,,.’ . ., treatment from coming in. They block access to the hospitals ,and ,then they falsify and claim that we block access. Well, as I have indicated, we have been able to open up access to the local hospitals and to take any injured person to the hospitals nearby in Ashkalon and Beersheba. * - (Mr. Netanyahu, Israel) There’ is one other tactic that they use: the stealing of corpses. Corpses are “ery usg$ti; y i ,“y I.-r:*-$. “f r.77 “*@...~““&.‘:&.” -) . . . . a*.\ --- ,.r *: >.. ‘., ,. -;- d .. _” ‘. They are a very useful way ‘to ~infl& crowds. 80 they go to the hosi;i&& ‘ha a’.&,ar ‘&f, corpse; - . . We have had appeals from families who say: 5” aPleaS&“&ke ‘ihe”&pses &y f&m’ the PLO and -bring them back to US.” ‘The corpses *).-” . , _ . . : . . , ; I . e -. . , 2:: are necessary if ‘&u &nt to start .a riot. Families have begged us to return the , . bodies of their 1oved”one.s. . I We have had some experience with this incitation. We’knaw that’ the majority . . i : do not wan’t to r ; - . . . ; , ;‘ ;.,,’ I’, y , : ! ‘*‘, ‘; i . , “. . . ‘- c :,> , I i, ! -t : , f 7: / . .’ ;> : “‘. of the -people In Judea&maria and in Gaza do not participate, < :‘i.l ;“ .:, n *~,;-r;‘. ~.,! - ‘) parti&pdfa,“abhor this violence and would want to see &im restored. Cur - autharities have’mut‘with the local Arab representatives to defuse the situation anptoc.y&~~e- &irni ‘“.kdr eg;lr;dld , the Mayor of Nablus and the IDF Commander of the Central District met a day or so ago and decided on several measures to do just / that. We’ are determined to preserve stability and order for the benefit of all. ‘, We will also continue, despite the objections of my Jordanian colleague and others ., r ?, 1 ~ .‘... ._(( * .,; a I . ).. s. .’ .I .,t_ i, : .i c,.. ’ I here;‘%ith ‘these ‘%os&tic” things to ‘improve the life of the .inhabftants ‘- 2. ‘cosmetic” things like electrification and housing , agricultural improvements ana , impr6ve&nts. in ‘de banking system, in the fisheries and ‘so on. We shall continue 1.. with ‘all these “co.&natic* things because our idea is’ coexistence, our idea is peace and a peaceful settlement. That is not the ideal of those who organize and orchestrate and incite, including’ in this Council. There is one principle we are discussing ‘here, ‘and’ that ‘principle is the right of any Government - military or l , . _.. , , .‘.IY..I. : , ’ civilian -*‘to a’dminister a territory and ensure law and order’for the safety of ,-a . ., :..I all;“%iis”is a principle that I believe is recognized by virtually every lMr- ., Netanyahu, Israel) ,; fair-minded representative here. I.. . b.1 :’ _** :- I F It is one that was enunciated by someone who 1 . . s _. , .: “.. . . ..<....1 - 47(5-f .I a. ..;+c*tJJ”f,.v$r IsiL;:&.aa. u,2 b&M..,-MC .‘<i -.. ‘- - think should knew something about it. He said: We find it our duty to:take,.a .,:$ /_. *. :.;y,“,y’ . series of measures to restore law and order, to preserve ‘the life”of every citizen, ,, . . . . I ). .r . . =:, .:. -. his means of living and his property.’ I This is not a quotation from ::the leaders ,oS , 1 . _: :: ,.,--. the Israeli Government or from their representative here in this Chamber. It is a quote from none other than King Hussein , who, in his biography written by . .._. t-.: Peter Snow said, on page 222: ” It is a principle that we should all repair to.. _ ,,‘.I _ ,~,. ‘./ , - ‘ . ,: It-.. “- :_i 2.’ , _. $23 -..~..y-.yp:-: F‘.,,_ ;.- :pc::-: .f* ;-: is a correct one,* We fully concur and we believe that everybody who ,,,has~~z.+,..ac_ts I ~ ‘5 :-‘. . . ) _ : ” Z’ .;3:i of the matter at hand knows that this is precisely what Israel is doing. I,,j_ ,.; ,’ ..,I. ,.I. But the question is: What is the Council doing? Why is the- .supremeY body. of the United Nations - the one charged with the maintenance of interna-tional.. peace0 . I. ,,-,; ,... *: quelling wars and resolving conflicts of unimaginable magnitude that are naw ’ 1,: ; flaring up in the world - allwing itself to be misused in such a distortion of ,. truth and the purposes for which it was founded? 7 ,; .: : ‘,. ;. ,.I : * .’ : I: ‘ ,’ -< The PRRSIDEWT (interpretation from Russian) : The repres.entative,of .the t, I : . . I? ,I::: :, ) .; ! p;t;.r?:; fr Syrian Arab Republic has asked to speak in exercise of the right of reply. I , 1 I_ . invite him to take a place at the Council table and to make his statement., /. 1 ‘, ‘ ; .’ ‘_I : Mr. MASRI (Syrian Arab Republic) (interpretation from Arabic) : We have become accuston&to hearing untruths, distortions and lies. ‘The Council, which is . regarded as the supreme international body, with responsibility for international : I peace and security, is well aware of the situation. It knows the truth of the matter. The speaker pieceding me has not spoken the truth. He has told lies. The grave situation in the occupied Arab lands is fraught with the most serious danger to international peace and security. Nobody can be unaware of the I_ fact that this danger arose primarily because of the occupation and the blind for&‘&f repression of the occupying PaJer against the inhabitants of the occupied Arab territories. That representative, without t&e slightest embarrassment, spoke of his wish for peace. Hut -what peace was hetalking about? .Peace under occupation, within the context of expansionism - and indeed reminiscent of measures taken by the Nazis during the Second World War? How can one describe the massacres that have taken place in towns and villages in occupied Palestine? How can one describe the massacres of Heir Yassin, Nahhalin and elsewhere, and the massacres committed by the Israeli occupying forces throughout the occupied Arab territories7 H~J can one describe the barbaric invasion of Lebanon and the brutal botiing of the city of Beirut? HCX, indeed, can one describe all this ‘except as brutal massacres, such as those that occurred in Sabra and Shatila? Are these less than what was done by the Nazis; less than the measures they adopted during the Second World War? In his statement that speaker suggested that there was a kind of hysteria in our describing as Nazi the acts perpetrated in the occupied Arab territories. Yes, that is hm we describe them, because how else can one describe the indiscriminate massacring of women, children and the aged? (Mr. Masri, Syrian Arab Republic) That speaker scorned all recognized values by giving Jewish names to Arab ’ territories. % But I reaffirm that Arab land will remain Arab land. It will never bti zhist it&a. Whatever the duration of the,occupation, or of those Fascist, Nazi repressive measures which are adopted against the entire Arab Palestinian people in the-occupied Arab territories and in occupied Palestine, the resistance .’ will continue. It is legitimate resistance. It is resistance to occupation, ,.’ resistance to outside invasion. That representative of the Fascist occupying forces is trying to distort and remake the truth. And why is he doing this? There is a proverb to the effect that one cannot hide the sun with the palm of the hand. The immutable truth is that .’ there is occupation; there has been an invasion; the Israeli occupying forces have enacted a whole arsenal of repressive measures. What do you expect of people suffering every day, in their homes and in their schools, because of those measures? The speaker innundated us with lies and more lies, as if he could cover up the truth. It was just a smokescreen, however: the truth cannot be hidden. It is clear to everybody. There has beenan invasion; there is an occupation. The people of the occupied Arab territories have been exiled. There have been massacres. There is killing. By what right does that representative claim that his authorities are entitled to take certain measures to restore public order and law and order? What kind of law and order? Where? In the oc,cupied Arab territories? By what right do the occupying forces use such brutal and barbaric measures against national resistance? They do this on the pretext of preserving law and order. Law and order in these territories can only be achieved if there is a complete withdrawal 1. .” ,’ from them and if the inhabitants of those lands are allowed to enjoy their (Mr, Masri, Syrian Arab Republic) inal,ienable rights that are recognized under international law and the Charter of the United Nations. Security can never be achieved through Nazi, Fascist and repressive actions. It is claimed that these authorities took certain actions. But that speaker forgets that they are like the Nazis were. This is the greatest threat to peace and security, He forgets that these occupying forces are the Nazis of today. The Council must adopt the necessary measures. The Council must, as soon as possible, adopt these measures so as to force the racist and Fascist rdgime to withdraw entirely and immediately from-the octipied Arab territories, thereby enabling the Palestinian people to exercise their inalienable national rights. Nobody can justify this occupation. Nobody can claim that these measures are legit-imate. The Council, the principal organ responsible for the maintenance of international peace and security, has not yet been able to take the necessary measures againinst that expansionist and colonialist rhgim, It has not yet been able to put an end to its misdeeds. ’ We do not wish to abuse the Council. We do not wish to launch campaigns and to make &xusations, which is what the preceding speaker claimed. We avail ourselves of the forum provided by the Council to tell the truth to the world, to denounce the neo-Nazi measures being taken against the inhabitants of the occupied . . . Arab territories and against the Arab people. We avail ourselves cf this forum not -: .s .- to hurl accusations but to ask for restaration of the rights of-‘oppressed peoples. ’ - (Mr. Al-Masri, Syrian Arab Republic) i, I. -. We have told the world the truth and we therefore expect the international community to take the position incumbent on it by its responsibilities for international peace and security, and to combat this outlaw rbgime, which has placed itself outside the pale of all moral and human values. We appeal to the Security Council to take the measures required to protect the Arab inhabitants of the occupied Arab territories, to give them international ! . . protection against these barbaric actions by the occupying Isaeli forces. I do not wish to dwell on this matter; I know that the Council's time is valuable. I would merely say.once again that we are here today awaiting the adoption of the measures required by the situation* , we are awaiting the Council's shouldering of its responsibilities to law, right and justice.

The representative of fhe Palestine Liberation Organization wishes' to speak in exercise of the right of reply, and I now call on him. Mr. ,AL-KIDWA (Palestine Liberation Organization) (interpretation from Arabic): I should have liked to place before the Security Council today the developments that have taken place in the serious situation in the occupied Palestinian territories and the details of the crimes committed against our people there. Hcwever, because of the constraints of time, we shall do that at the: next meeting of the Security Council, tomorrow. On Friday last, during the meeting of thz Security Council on the serious situation in the occupied Palestinian territories, the representative of Israel spoke and tried to hide the facts. He summed up the situation as if it were a mere traffic accident and described the information that had been given to the Council as "lies". He also said that what had been happening was only riots directed by the Palestine Liberation Organization. We would have thought that the wealth Of (Mr. Al-Kidwa, Palestine Liberation Organisation) details that had been given about the serious deterioration of the situation in the . occupied territories would prevent him from repeating these same statements. However, regrettably, he went on repeating them. He tried to make it appear that we have to be protected by the occupying Israeli forces. In this connection, I would only quote a message Lord Nottingham addressed to Mrs. Thatcher, the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, on 7 December 1987, on behalf of a delegation of British Liberals that had visited Jordan and the occupied territories. This message contains that delegation's evaluation of the reasons for the deterioration of the situation in the occupied territories. It reads: (spoke in English) "The delegation believes that the sharp rise in hostilities to the occupation forces has resulted from three things: "First, a growth in human-rights abuses by the occupying Power. Examples of this are: The shooting of innocent people has become commonplace. There is n0 punishment for army indiscipline and no apparent control. No supervision or disciplining of individual army units firing on unarmed civilian demonstrations has become normal. Children of 12 to 15 years of age are frequently picked up off the streets and held in detention for up to three months without right of appeal, and often with no indication that they are in custody. "Secondly, a complete failure to achieve any kind of political or administrative solution to the illegal Israeli occupation. "Thirdly, a specific example of the kind of abuse by the occupation authorities that is provoking the catastrophe: In Gaza the illegal Israeli Settlers are given over 30 per cent of the total water supplies available, while the remainder of the water is shared among the 640,000 refugees and (Mr. Al-Kidwa, Palestine Liberation Organizationl other persons under the occupation , many of whom are living in squalor and. deprivation that is inconceivable to the Western mind - mostly as a direct result of the occupation. “The situation is rapidly moving towards a crisis that will make the. massacres of the Sabra and Shatilla refugee camps seem insignificant by comparison. Urgent action must be taken to reduce the threat..” (continued in Arabic) As we have said, that is the message of unbiased witnesses concerning the reasons for what, is happening in the occupied territories. I do not think I have to give any more evidence. If the resistance of our people to the Israeli occupation and: the policy of the iron fist is the cause of the rejection of this occupation, then we in the PLO are proud of that. If the resistance of our people to the Israeli occupation and the policy of the iron fist is the result of the efforts of the PLO and the adherence of our people to the PLO as its sole, legitimate representative.‘ then. we are proud of that. We and our people do not hide the fact that we are struggling to achieve our legi timate national rights and to put an end to occupation. (Mr. Al-Kidwa, Palestine Liberation Organization) The Israeli representative also said, as he always does whenever the question of Palestine is discussed, something in order to draw our attention away from the core of the problem and to the inter-Arab conflict. We have not in any way claimed that we are without Arab conflicts and disputes. But we reaffirm that those problems and disputes are radically different from the . Israeli occupation of Palestinian soil. There is an Israeli occupation; Israel is engaging in oppressive practices; all international laws, the Charter, the Fourth Geneva Convention and all other international instruments are being violated. The Palestinian national identity has always existed. The aspirations of the Palestinian people have always existed, and will always exist. Here I would echo the Ambassador of Jordan, who has said that the Palestinian people will not be satisfied with any foreign rule. We emphasize that. Indeed the Palestinian people will not accept any foreign rule. The only rule it will accept is- Palestinian rule for our Palestinian people. The,PRESIDENT (interpretation from Russian): The next meeting of the * Security Council to continue our consideration of this agenda item will take place tomorrow, Tuesday, 15 December 1987, at 4 p.m. The meeting rose at 8.30 p.m.