UN General Assembly
1958

8. The representative of Iraq clearly lacks the most elementary knowledge of the history and aspirations of an ancient people nurtured for thousands of years on the hope of restoring its independence and its equality with other nations. Surely he must know from his own experience that the 130,000 Jews who fled from Iraq in 1950 and 1951 — with the recollection of persecution still vivid in their minds — came to us for no purpose save to live in peace and dignity and with firm dedication to the restored nation of Israel. The same holds good for the additional hundreds of thousands of our people who have joined us from other Arab-speaking countries of the Middle East and North Africa as well as for all those who. came to us from so many other parts of the world. Israel is not an "instrument" of anything excepting its people's own passionate will for freedom and peace.