Blum: Hebron Killings Was an Outrage

Israel’s Ambassador to the United Nations, Yehuda Blum, charged today that the ambush killings in Hebron represented an attempt to “interfere” with the autonomy negotiations now in progress and “illustrate once again the true character of the PLO and its violent aims.” In a message to Secretary General Kurt Waldheim describing the outrage, Blum declared:

“Beyond indiscriminate murder, the object of this unconscionable exercise was to inflame religious sentiments among local Arabs and to foment incitement in an attempt to interfere with the stepped-up negotiations on full autonomy for the Palestinian Arabs in Judaea, Samaria and the Gaza district. Cowardliness and callousness characterized PLO terror since its inception and this criminal incident illustrates once again the true character of the PLO and its violent aims.”