A few days ago {90th meeting] I rose to present to the Assembly draft resolution A/31/L.24 on behalf of my delegation. This draft resolution was, as I pointed out, crystal clear, unequivocal and straightforward, and as such represents Israel's policy on the issue of negotiations for peace.
3. We en…
Events which may be of great and historic importance are in the offing in the Middle East. In view of this it seems to me appropriate that this event should be reflected in this Assembly both in its plenary meetings and in its committees, in that the acrimonious and counter-productive debate on the …
Three weeks ago during the debate on the policies of apartheid of the Government of South Africa I stated at length the position of the Government of Israel with regard to racism and apartheid f72nd meeting]. That, after all, was the subject of the debate, and I referred repres~ntatives to the verba…
Yesterday in this hall [88th meetingJ ( expressed the hope that the General Assembly would rise to the challenge offered by the current moves towards peace. Instead, by proposing to endorse the two draft resolutions before us, the Assembly is allying itself firmly with the forces ofrejection and ref…
A momentous and historic event has taken place in the Middle East. Only a few days ago, all of us here watched spellbound as old suspicions and barriers were broken down, as rhetoric gave way to dialogue, and the limits ofwhat seemed possible were suddenly expanded
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9. Let us all be real…
My delegation has participated in the consensus on this resolution because Israel, as a principal target of the forces ofinternational terror, is only too aware of the urgency of this problem. However, let me say at the outset that the resolution is a disappoL,ting one. It is weak, for it is a compr…
In explaining my delegation's vote on the financing of UNEF and UNDOF, I wish to make it clear that the Government of Israel regards the
presence of UNEF and UNDOF as an integral part of the Agreement on Disengagement of Forces between Israel and Egypt entered into freely by both Governments in Jan…
I rise to address the plenary meeting on this point because I sense a certain concern among Members of this Organization that the General Assembly has previously spent insufficient time attacking Israel. After all, the last two sessions of the Assembly devoted only 50 per cent of their time to discu…
The Middle East stands today at one of the most crucial turning-points in its modem history. After four wars and incalculable suffering, we stand, for the first time, on the eve of serious negotiations aimed at resolving the issues that divide us and replacing the decades of bloodshed and destructio…
Thank you, Mr. President, for permitting me to make a further statement in introducing this draft resolution.
4. I present to the Assembly draft resolution A/31/L.24, which has been submitted by the delegation of Israel under agenda item 29 and which reads as follows: 5. The draft resolution follow…
I do not wish at this moment to enter into any particular discussion of the substance of
121. We are wasting vast quantities of money, even taking into consideration only the direct fmancial implications of each of these debates, which run into millions of dollars, just in order to hear the Arab re…
I reject out of hand the statement just made by the Libyan representative, allegedly on behalf of the Arab group of States, which negates the principles of the Charter of the United Nations and, above/ all,the principle of the universality of this Organization.
129. The credentials of the Israeli d…
In speaking on draft resolutions A to E, in paragraph 17 of document A/31/333, Ishallrefer, in particular, to draft resolutions D and E. These two draft resolutions not only contain information that completely disregards and contradicts the true state of affairsobtaining in the area, but, as draft r…
For the first time in the history of the United Nations an ad hoc committee of the General Assembly has set out deliberately to distort the history of the Arab-Israel conflict, a history with which this Organi- zation has been intimately involved, and to turn the clock back for the purpose of rewrit…
My delegation has made its position quite clear in the course of this discussion and on other occasions on Israel's attitude towards apartheid. In the words of my Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mr. Yigal Allon, to this General Assembly,
"Racism and racial discrimination, in …
It is regrettable that, instead of being able to achieve consensus on a subject which calls for such consensus, it has again this year not been possible to do so because of the injection by the Arab delegations of irrelevancies into the debate and of a diloordant note which is the invariable result …
My delegation has supported draft resolution A/31/L.5. Our support of the draft resolution must be regarded as beingwithout prejudice to a more thorough study by us of the practical implications of the applicability of paragraph 4.
I wish merely to refer to the disclaimer made by the representative of Kuwait to this body.
176. I have two documents here: one is an excerpt from Africa, No. 56, dated April 1976, in which, on page 98, there is a detailed analysis of the Kuwaiti involvement in Lonrho, Ltd.; the other is The Times …
I do not intend to answer all the remarks made by the Arab representatives in reply to me. It is quite obvious that I have uncovered a very touchy nerve and the violent, obsessive reaction of some of the Arab delegations to my remarks is indicative of how very vulnerable they are. As I said in my sp…
