UN General Assembly
1958

126. Thus, it becomes obvious that the assumptions which you took as a basis in the creation of Israel have been vitiated, not by one or two events but by a lengthy series of condemnations of Israel by the Security Council, a long history of tension, insecurity and instability through a whole decade. "What was the main object of the establishment of Israel and of partition? What was the premise upon which partition was decided? The United Nations aimed at bringing about a peaceful settlement of the Palestine question. The boundaries between Israel and the Arab States, it was forcefully argued in 1947, again by the representative of the United States speaking in defence of partition, "will be as freely crossed as the boundaries which separate the individual states within the United States".