UN General Assembly
1983

72. And what is the United States doing about the Middle East problem? It is engaged in "strategic cooperation" with the Israeli aggressors, supplying them with modern weapons. It is the United States that nurtured this militaristic State in the Middle East. As a result, Israel's military expenditures amount to 62 per cent of its gross national product, while its external indebtedness exceeds its annual gross national product. The United States has been supporting Israel's aggressive actions against the Arab peoples, defending it in the Security Council against the wrath and the just demands of the international community. As for the PLO, the United States has no other words for it but torrents of malicious insults. The United States not only has been evading a comprehensive and just settlement in the Middle East but also—at the very time of the International Conference on the Question of Palestine, which it sabotaged—proceeded to overt military actions against the Lebanese, thus making a mockery of its promise to protect them.