UN General Assembly
1956

155. May I say that the people of Israel cannot emulate, nor do they understand, this legalistic detachment. When their peaceable fellow-citizens are murdered in cold blood, in the course of their daily occupations, they are provoked, and they demand that their Government reflect chat sense of provocation by affording them the protection which every State owes its citizens and which international bodies are apparently unable to provide. 156. If moral distinctions are to be made, then let me suggest that controlled military actions — with limited and well-defined military or police objectives — are less abhorrent, even to the most sensitive conscience, than wanton and indiscriminate murder which strikes not at military targets, but solely at civilians. 157. The campaign of terror unleashed against Israel was not stopped by the intervention of the United Nations. The cease-fire secured by the Secretary-General last April was not honoured. Instead, despite Israel’s exemplary compliance with the cease-fire agreement, violence was immediately resumed and increased on every border.