Tabib Shihib, Iraq Ambassador to the United Nations, today openly encouraged and supported the Palestinian guerrilla movement against Israel. Interviewed by Columbia Broadcasting Company United Nations correspondent Richard B. Hottelet over the CBS radio network this morning, Mr. Shibib warned that the “half-measured” solutions proposed to bring peace to the Middle East would not achieve a just peace for the area, but would result in war and suffering not only continuing to engulf the Middle East but spreading and threatening the entire world. “We are not trouble makers, nor war mongers,” Mr. Shibib said. “We are after peace, but a lasting, permanent and just peace, and we feel that all the plans that so far have been advocated will not bring peace to the area.” Warning that Iraq would not stand by and see the Palestinian resistance movement liquidated, the Ambassador said, sometimes, a just peace can be achieved as the result of a limited war. But, he added, “If the only alternative left to the Palestinians is to raise arms in order to regain their rights, then I feel that it is a legitimate right which has been exercised by people all over the world when the need has risen.” (The Iraq government has denounced the United States peace initiative in the Middle East as an “imperialist plot” and called for an Arab united front to oppose it.)
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