Last week’s anti-Israel censure by the United Nations Security Council was severely criticized here today in a statement on behalf of the Board of Deputies of British Jews by Sir Barnett Janner, president of the Board. The resolution condemning Israel for alleged “aggressions against Syria, as a result of Israel’s defensive military action in the Lake Tiberias area, had been cosponsored by the British and American delegation to the United Nations.
“The resolution,” stated Sir Barnett, “cannot be described as either objective or just Israel’s complaint to the Security Council, concerning repeated acts of aggression committed by Syrian armed forces against the citizens and territory of Israel, and of threats against Israel’s territorial integrity and political independence uttered by leaders of the Syrian Arab Republic, were neither challenged nor refuted. Yet the Security Council’s resolution completely ignored Syria’s violations of her obligations under the UN Charter and under the Israel–Syrian Armistice Agreement of 1949.
“In these circumstances, the Board of Deputies records its opinion that an injustice was committed by the resolution and feels that, instead of the resolution being a landmark in the restoration of peace in the area, it will prove rather to be a step backward–an act of appeasement of the aggressor.”
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