UN General Assembly
1952

108. Indeed, it was this huge expanse, of Arab sovereignty which stood before the eyes of the United Nations when the question of Israel’s right to statehood came before it. The nations of the world pronounced a simple truth. They said, “If it is right for the Arab peoples to possess their vast continent, it cannot be wrong for the Jewish people to enjoy the peaceful possession of its more -modest but precious home”. It was plain to every balanced conscience that there is no value whatever in an international philosophy which would withhold from Israel in its infinitely smaller domain the privileges and opportunities with which the Arab people is so lavishly endowed?