UN General Assembly
1963

25. The problem is basically political and national. It is the problem of an entire nation torn away from its ancestral national home by forces of treachery and aggression and thrown into a life of injustice, torture, despair and degradation beyond the facilities of expression. It is a cold fact of history that these people who are now made the object of international charity, had before 1947 enjoyed one of the highest standards of living in the Middle East. It is also a fact that these Arab refugees own 90 per cent of the land of Palestine —property worth billions of dollars, the annual income of which is much greater than the amounts collected by the United Nations to keep them alive.