Israel reacted with unconcealed gratification to the windup of the UN Security Council’s debate on Israel’s rescue operation at Entebbe Airport in Uganda. The resolution by the Organization of African Unity calling on the Council to condemn the Israeli action was withdrawn at the last moment when its sponsors realized that the measure would fail to receive the nine votes required for its adoption.
In an official statement issued last Thursday evening, a Foreign Ministry spokesman said the “abject failure of the attempt to condemn Israel for the Entebbe operation” in effect was an acknowledgement of “Israel’s right to act the way she did.” The failure meant, too, that the Council had refused to give its “stamp of approval” to Arab international terrorism.
“Israel draws encouragement from the vote of six countries (the United States, Britain, France, Italy, Sweden and Japan) which supported the proposal condemning terrorism…. The rejection of that proposal (by the U.S. and Britain) serves as further proof of the inability of the UN to deal effectively with problems threatening human society as a whole….”
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