UN General Assembly
1966

155. As in Africa, imperialism in the Middle East, held at bay by the resistance of the peoples, is trying to take another form. The situation in Oman remains confused and, while imperialism is promising to lead the people of Aden to independence, it is striving to keep intact its economic and strategic interests by creating the Federation of South Arabia. 156. Further to the north, in Palestine, Israel remains a military enclave, a bridgehead of imperialism in the midst of the Arab countries. The Palestine problem has been given racial overtones only by those who have expelled the indigenous inhabitants from their own land in order to install foreign settlers in their place. Indeed, what is needed is to go beyond the racial criteria and eliminate the segregationist State, in order to return this country to its people. This people, like any other people in the world, must have its right to self-determination recognized,