UN General Assembly
1982

without recognition of the legitimate, inalienable rights of the Palestinian people. It is with that in view that concrete proposals for an overall peaceful solution have been formulated. 244. Unfortunately these peace efforts are still pitted against the political ambitions of the Zionists, who wish to relegate the Palestinian cause to historical oblivion so as to promote their expansionist policy. The Zionists do not wish to accept or tolerate any talk of national rights for Palestinians; they wished to bury the natural aspirations of an entire people under the ruins of Beirut. In order to do that the Zionist war-lords unleashed the most devastating and the most bloody aggression against Lebanon, using the most sophisticated weaponry, with the avowed intention of annihilating the Palestinian people, of liquidating the PLO and destroying its organizational structure. 245. For more than two months Lebanon has been subjected to the most merciless destruction. Beirut, besieged, deprived of water, food, electricity and medicines, constantly bombarded from land, air and sea, has undergone an ordeal which no city has experienced since the Second World War.