UN General Assembly
1979

73. The solution of the Middle East problem, including the achievement of a just peace in the area, is of the utmost importance. However, it can be brought about, not by devious means, immoral methods and illegal ways, but only by enabling the Palestinian people to liberate their land and exercise their rights to self- determination and to return to their homeland. The representative of the Egyptian regime, in his search for justification of the causes that led that regime to alienate Egypt from its Arabism and the Arab nation, claimed that the Arab nation could not provide any alternative solution. I should like to assure him and all others from this rostrum that there is a solution—in which he in fact personally believes—and that it is the only solution. The United States of America must first realize that it carries the onus of an historical responsibility and should, for once seek, the interests of the American people and not yield to pressure, terrorism and election-blackmail by Zionist forces within the United States.