The first official comment of the Israel Government on the South African disturbances was made by Mrs. Golda Meir, Israel’s Foreign Minister. She said that “the opposition of the Israel Government to racial persecution in any form and its insistence on human rights everywhere have been expressed on all occasions when this problem came up before the United Nations. “
Mrs. Meir made the statement in the Knesset, Israel’s Parliament, in reply to a question from Mapai Deputy Herzl Berger, who asked whether the Israel delegation at the UN had been invited to join the Afro-Asian delegations in requesting a debate on the South African events. She replied that Israel had not been invited, and that the Government of Israel “hopes with all its heart that a just solution will soon be found in this tragic problem.”
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