UN General Assembly
1969

place in Asia, Africa and Latin America are shining examples of the total failure of the policy of force. 104. This is the dark and negative side of the situation prevailing in the Middle East since 1948 which has further deteriorated since Israel’s June 1967 aggression. There is, however, the other side of the picture where there is a ray of hope and a gleam of optimism that a fundamental remedy is beginning to emerge. By this I mean the growing valiant resistance movement of the people of Palestine who, under the yoke of Israel’s occupation in the darkness of refugee tents and conscious of their homelessness, suffer from the world’s lack of conscience and the impotence of this Organization to find a solution for the plight in which they have been living for twenty years now. Last year witnessed the intensification of patriotic resistance in Palestine and all occupied Arab territories. This resistance has become the criterion for the effectiveness of the Arab struggle. 105. From this rostrum, I wish to affirm the support of