Gruesome photographs of maimed Palestinian children, women and men, allegedly the victims of Israeli aggression, will be displayed here next week at an exhibition sponsored by the Palestine Liberation Organization.
The exhibition, titled “The Palestinian Invalid,” is part of the events and activities of the UN Palestine Week, which opens here Monday. In addition to the PLO-sponsored exhibition, the UN itself will present an exhibition featuring the Palestinians’ culture and way of life, and emphasizing their “inalienable rights” to self-determination.
Palestine Week will begin with a special meeting of the General Assembly attended by Secretary General Kurt Waldheim who — as in previous years — will deliver a short speech honoring the yearly event. During the week the UN also will screen the documentary film “Palestinians Do Have Rights” which was produced two years ago by the UN under PLO direction and supervision.
On Tuesday, the General Assembly will open the “Palestinian Debate” — a yearly exercize in anti-Israeli speeches, culminating in an overwhelmingly ??? adopted resolution calling for the establishment of a Palestinian state.
Yehuda Blum, Israel’s Ambassador to the United Nations, will present Israel’s view at the debate claiming that the Palestinians already have a state of their own — Jordan — and that the autonomy talks, currently underway between Israel, Egypt and the United States, are the solution to the Palestinian problem.
Israeli diplomats at the UN pointed out that beginning with Palestine Week, Israel will be under relentless fire in the form of anti-Israeli resolutions in the Assembly for the next three weeks.
In addition to an anti-Israel resolution at the conclusion of the “Palestinian Debate,” there will also be anti-Israel resolutions at the end of the debate on the “Mideast Question” and on various other items before the Assembly, such as Israel’s relations with South Africa, Israel’s treatment of the Palestinian population on the West Bank and Gaza Strip, and Israel’s archaeological excavation. The debate on the “Mideast Question” is scheduled to begin Dec. 7.
The Mideast will also be on the agenda of the Security Council Dec. 18 when the mandate of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) will have to be extended for another six months. Diplomats said they do not expect any problems over the extension of the mandate.
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