UN General Assembly
1957

103. Israel was established against the will of the people of the land. Israel was wedged in the sub-continent of the Arab people against their determined refusal. The initial assumption — and I invite the attention of the Assembly now to this initial assumption — upon which the General Assembly recommended the creation of Israel was that partition would separate two conflicting communities. That was the assumption for the partition and the establishment of Israel: a separation of two conflicting communities. Succeeding events have vitiated this assumption. Instead of removing the evil, partition led to evil and conflict, but in greater proportions. In the words of the representative of the United States, while advocating partition before the General Assembly in 1947, the boundary between Israel and the Arab States "will be as friendly as the boundary which runs for three thousand miles between Canada and the United States” [124th meeting].