UN General Assembly
1969

terrorism, violence and fire. For more than twenty years these “refugees” have been living in poverty, bitterness and nostalgia for their usurped fatherland. But today some profess to be shocked because these people have rebelled and because resistance to oppression is being organized and is becoming a key factor in the problem—a new factor which cannot and should not in any way be underestimated. 93. In 1967, the June war led to the occupation of the whole of Jerusalem and the West Bank of the Jordan, as well as Sinai and the Golan Heights; And on 21 August 1969 came the burning of the Al-Aqsa Mosque, which was deeply resented by both Christendom and Islam. Was not this burning, as was stated recently by the Algerian representative in the Security Council [1508th meeting], “the tragic accomplishment that must follow the complacency of the international community“? 94. It would take too long to cite the decisions of the General Assembly and of the Security Council which have remained dead letters for Israel. This contempt for the