UN General Assembly
1982

despite the fact that the international community has come increasingly to recognize the PLO as the sole legitimate representative of the Palestinian people, Israel persists in its aggressive policy and its imperialist settlement policy on the land of Palestine. 136. By means of its policy of physically liquidating the Palestinian people, and its attempts to distort the history of Palestine and destroy its religious and cultural institutions, as well as to bring about changes in the demographic pattern there, Israel is attempting to put an end to Palestinian identity, with no respect either for international public opinion or for the United Nations. 137. If Palestine is our primary cause, the Holy City of Jerusalem is its essence. In this connection, Saudi Arabia, on its own behalf and on behalf of the Islamic countries which are members of the Organization of the Islamic Conference, reaffirms its determination to preserve the Islamic Arab character of Jerusalem and to return the Holy City to Arab sovereignty, under which it was always a meeting