UN General Assembly
1952

The only government in its area in which the ideals and practices of democracy are held up; almost the only country in the area in which individual freedom is not restricted by despotic monarchy or military dictatorship ; the only State which, above all others in the area, devotes its political freedom consistently and earnestly to the purpose of social and economic progress; the only State in the area in which all adult men and women have freedom to vote; the only government in the area which is prepared without condition to enter into full and normal relations with all other governments in the area; the only government in the region which by sacrifice close to the very point of exhaustion has given shelter and home to 750,000 of its kinsmen, while the Arab governments of that same area voluntarily withhold permanent home and shelter and employment from their own flesh and blood, whose flight and panic those governments caused and whose rehabilitation they have the full capacity to effect; the only government in the area which, despite all attack, refuses to abandon or renounce the ultimate prospect of Israel-Arab peace.