UN General Assembly
1973

89. Does the rule of law apply to the Middle East situation? What rule of law is it which permits a Member State of this Organization to continue its occupation of the territories of three other Member States? What rule of law is it which allows the occupying Power to annex formally some of those territories and change their demographic character? What rule of law is it which denies the fundamental rights of the Arab people of Palestine to be free and secure in their ancestral homeland and prevents them from freely exercising their rights of self- determination? 90. If we want justice to be the supreme arbiter in the affairs of men, should we not start to deal effectively with some of the most glaring examples of injustice and brutal oppression in our contemporary world, such as colonialism, racial discrimination and the continued denial for millions of Africans of their fundamental human rights and freedoms?