UN General Assembly
1953

46. The present tactics seem to be to let matters ride quietly for a while until, whether at this session of the General Assembly or at next year’s session, the opportune moment arrives when it will be possible 'to have the United Nations take a fresh decision, rescinding the old one and making it possible for Israel, from the international juridical point of view, to establish its capital in Jerusalem. 47. Since this is my reading of the Jerusalem situation, it is appropriate, I believe, to make one or two fundamental observations. 48. First, I know there are attempts to persuade Jordan to establish its capital in the Old City, as a sort of compensation for accepting the Israel fait accompli in Jerusalem. It is right to declare that the Arabs will never accept the capital of Israel to be in Jerusalem.