UN General Assembly
1962

53. Why should the United States, a great Power and a permanent member of the Security Council, behave in this contradictory manner? Why should the United States supply arms to an aggressor who has insistently violated the decisions of the United Nations? This is not the first time that the United States has supported Israel's aggressive policy, nor the only form in which the United States has built up Israel's military power. Since the creation of Israel, the United States has been rendering colossal material and economic assistance disproportionate to Israel's size and population. Other Western Powers have done the same, and continuously. The West is interested in maintaining and strengthening Israel as a bridge-head for colonialism in the Middle East. The reasons are obvious — to resist the national liberation movements in the Middle East and Africa; to force the new countries to remain within the framework of the Western economic system and under the yoke of colonial domination, and to use it for the implementation of the colonial and military plans of the West. Last but not least, the West is using Israel as a cover for its policy of intervention in the Middle East, Africa and Asia. Israel's role is co-operation in subversion and the perpetuation of tension in the Middle East.