UN General Assembly
1982

Lebanon. What has been done by the Israeli military clique in that long-suffering country is nothing short of genocide, a planned and deliberate extermination of the Palestinian people. The tragedy of Beirut has brought back to the memory of mankind the darkest scenes from the past—the bloody crimes of the Nazis in the Second World War. It ranks with such evil deeds of the Fascists as the massacre of the people of Babi Yar, Kiev, where in 1941 many tens of thousands of people were murdered, mainly women, children and old men and where, incidentally, side by side with Russians and Ukrainians many innocent Jews were kitted. 33. Blinded by military intoxication the ruling circles in Israel have trampled into the mud not only the time- honoured international rules and concepts that were reaffirmed in the Charter and the will of the international community expressed in numerous resolutions of the General Assembly and of the Secu¬rity Council, but also their own human image. Such brutal behavior by the aggressor would not have been possible without the political protection