UN General Assembly
1963

66. What is severely painful in the question of Palestine is not only the extirpation of the native and legitimate inhabitants from their fatherland, but equally the fact that in the age of the United Nations this population, scattered here and there, has continued to suffer in destitution and exile for fifteen long years and continues to wait for redress. Time has not softened the bitterness of the Arab people with regard to Palestine. There is no other problem in the world which could arouse the sentiments of the Arabs more than that of Palestine, I would venture to say that the political attitude of the Arab nation as a whole in its international relations could be seriously affected one way or another, or shifted from one position to the other, if the Palestine question or any of its aspects and ramifications is at stake.