UN General Assembly
1968

158. We have every reason now to believe that Israel is obsessed with territorial expansion and is therefore deliberately obstructing all efforts for peace. It is enough to keep in mind that while Israel was conducting its procedural and rhetorical games, it wasted no time in consolidating its occupation. It planted Israeli settlements in the occupied Arab territories. It expelled hundreds of thousands of inhabitants of the occupied areas from their homes, deliberately and systematically. It bulldozed into non-existence villages and large quarters of Arab cities. Israel took drastic and violent measures to swallow the Holy City of Jerusalem into its political structure by wholesale confiscation of land and property and by other radical measures. The Israeli authorities arrested, imprisoned, deported, tortured, shot or subjected to various forms of persecution thousands of Arabs in the occupied area. Israel also stepped up its wild attacks against my country, Jordan, in particular, in a systematic programme of heavy shelling and air bombardment of Jordanian villages and towns, perhaps in the hope that that would break the spirit of resistance in my people and pave the way for more expansion into Jordanian territory. It is incredible that twenty-three years after the founding of the United Nations the right of a people to live free from aggression becomes a question for debate.