UN General Assembly
1969

international principles were to be received in the Security Council as a guardian of international peace and security? 214. If I close without any prediction about the prospects of peace in the Middle East it is because so much depends on the incalculable evolution of ideas. I fear that the it essence of the matter is ideological. 215. The Arab view of Israel and of the Middle East is deformed by a refusal to confront two essential attributes of our region. The first is the depth and authenticity of the historic forces which tie our people to the land of Israel. Much of human history is unintelligible unless that connexion is taken into due account. Remove Israel and all that has flowed from Israel out of Middle Eastern history and you evacuate that history of its central experiences. Here we have the only State in the world which speaks the same tongue, upholds the same faith and inhabits the same land as it did 3,000 years ago. And our neighbours speak of