UN General Assembly
1951

29. Instead of doing so, they overlooked the Egyptian crisis and the Palestine catastrophe, with its refugees, and proceeded to draft a kind of intervention in Arab domestic affairs impinging on their sovereign rights. I do not know if the authors of that project expected the Arab States to acquiesce in that arrangement while such sad events were being perpetrated around the Suez Canal and in other Egyptian territories, and whilst the resolutions of the General Assembly regarding the repatriation of the Arab refugees of Palestine received no support from the big Powers, who were themselves responsible for the implementation of those neglected resolutions. 30. Another representative referred to the case of Palestine, advising the Arabs and Jews there to live together in friendship and advocating the peaceful co-existence of peoples of the same area. That was wise advice, probably emanating from goodwill, but the representative knows very well that peaceful co-existence must be based on justice and respect for the rights of neighbours, which is not the case in Palestine at present.