UN General Assembly
1967

140. In this context, the Arabs are being urged to accept conditions for peace. This is the demand of the Zionist Foreign Minister, Mr. Eban. What we find in this Zionist "context of peace" is the following. 141. First, the Arab people of Palestine must accept the fait accompli. They must accept slow death and total annihilation. They must not speak, as do other people, about their rights to self-determination and political independence. They must not speak of property or repatriation. They must speak and think only as beggars, in terms of mercy and charity. For this affords the Zionists a feeling of dignity and satisfaction, since the Zionists have had to go through such a humiliating drama in their efforts to win over world public opinion, and it also offers to those who aided the Zionists against the just rights of the Arabs a means for appeasing their conscience by helping those same Arabs in the misery inflicted upon them.