UN General Assembly
1954

83. It is not my intention to unfold the tragedy that began with the Balfour Declaration on 2 November 1917. Nor is it my intention to portray the lamentable record of British policy in its endeavour to establish the Jewish National Home upon the Palestine population. Likewise, I shall not endeavour to place before you a bloody picture of Zionist atrocities before and after Israel, atrocities committed against the defenceless and innocent population of Palestine. I shall only confine myself to the outstanding facts of the problem, not in their frame of history, but as they stand now, and only now.