Premier Yitzhak Rabin declared tonight that the pro-PLO resolutions overwhelmingly adopted by the United Nations General Assembly today constituted “an assault on the right of existence of the State of Israel; disavowal of the role designated the UN” and ” sabotage of the effort to achieve peace between Israel and the Arab states.”
He declared that “No resolution of the UN General Assembly will bind Israel to negotiate with the terrorist organization” and affirmed that Israel’s reply to the resolutions “together with the Jewish people throughout the world, will be increasing unity in the effort to reinforce the strength of the State of Israel in the fulfillment of its historic tasks.” He thanked those nations that voted against the measures.
Rabin’s statement said; “I regard it as necessary to react without delay, on behalf of the government of Israel, to the resolutions adopted today in the UN General Assembly. The majority in the Assembly today reached a nadir in two resolutions both of which, alike, have the significance of an assault on the right of existence of the State of Israel, of disavowal of the role designated the UN, and of sabotage of the effort to achieve peace between Israel and the Arab states.
“The countries that supported each of these two resolutions have assumed a heavy responsibility for a step whose meaning is the granting of encouragement by the UN General Assembly to organizations whose method is terrorism and whose declared objective is to destroy a member state of the UN-the State of Israel, Any anti-Israel terrorist element seeking to thwart any effort to promote peace between Israel and its neighbors will find justification for its criminal acts in these contemptible resolutions of the UN General Assembly.
DEVOID OF MORAL VALIDITY
“This is not the first time that the majority of the UN General Assembly has adopted discriminatory resolutions which ignore the rights of the State of Israel. But the resolutions now adopted seek to integrate the anti-Zionist ideological aspect with a practical anti-Israel aspect. The majority of the Assembly calls for the establishment of a committee on behalf of the UN among whose tasks will be to work for the implementation of UN General Assembly resolutions contravening the rights of Israel as a sovereign and Independent state.
“These resolutions are devoid of any moral validity. The government of Israel will not cooperate with the committee decided upon. The government of Israel will not negotiate with terrorist organizations calling themselves the Palestine Liberation Organization.
OBSTACLE TO GENEVA CONFERENCE
“We made it clear at an early stage to all the political factors that we reject the invitation of the PLO to the Geneva conference. It was agreed with us that only factors to whose invitation all sides would agree upon would be invited to the conference. The countries that voted for the Arab initiative in the Assembly must, therefore, be aware that the said resolutions constitute an obstacle on the road to the convening of the Geneva conference. No resolution of the UN General Assembly will bind Israel to negotiate with the terrorist organizations.
“We express our esteem to all the states that did not lend a hand to these disgraceful resolutions and did not yield to appeasement vis-a-vis Israel’s enemies. Our reply-together with the Jewish people throughout the world-will be: Increasing unity in the effort to reinforce the strength of the State of Israel in the fulfillment of its historic tasks.”
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