UN General Assembly
1957

But does even he really believe that the 120,000 Jews who within little more than a year streamed destitute and terrorized from Iraq into Israel should or could be repatriated to Iraq? Or similarly in the case of thousands upon thousands from Egypt or from the other Arab-speaking countries? Or that the survivors of the Nazi slaughter could return to lands which are filled with tragic memories? Israel has said to these refugees, "You are our brothers." It has taken them to its heart. And today they are a part of the living and growing fabric of our life. Let the Arab nations also for their part, with their vast territories and possibilities of development and with the funds already available from United Nations and other sources, let them, who at the very least are not without blame for what has happened, say to their refugees: these are our brethren and we shall take them in. Let them do that, let them cease to play politics with human misery, and this grievous problem is solved.