Rep. Edward 1. Koch (D.,N.Y.) charged yesterday that the United Nations Security Council has “once again” shown its “bias against Israel” by the resolution it adopted early Monday morning directing Israel to “desist and refrain” from attacks against Lebanese terrorists.
“The Israelis, exercising the right of self-defense, provided for under international law and indeed the very charter of the United Nations. have undertaken to do what the Lebanese government says it is not about to do, namely strike at the terrorists in their camps located in Lebanon,” Koch stated.
“What an outrage it is that the Security Council, which stood by and failed to come to the defense of real victims of aggression like those in Hungary in 1956, Czechoslovakia in 1968, or most recently those in Pakistan, now condemns the State of Israel for exercising its right of self-defense,” Koch declared.
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