UN General Assembly
1982

to the situation in the Middle East, where the nub, the first step, must be recognition of the inalienable rights of the Palestinian people. By entering west Beirut, in a gesture of utter disregard for world public opinion and for Israel's pledges to respect the peace agreements, Israeli troops created the conditions for Haddad's murderous gangs to take cowardly advantage of the honorable withdrawal from Beirut of the heroic Palestinian leaders and fighters a withdrawal designed precisely for the purpose of avoiding the indiscriminate slaughter of civilians and fall like bloodthirsty savages on the defenseless Palestinian camps. In doing so they relied on the collaboration of Israel, which had responsibility and which set the scene for them and facilitated the carrying out of the slaughter. Hitler would have had much to learn from the madness of Messrs. Begin and Sharon. HO. The Zionist genocide in Beirut is the direct result of the United States Government's policy of force, violence and oppression. Nobody has failed to notice the direct connection and manifest complicity