Speech #890008164

However. it was the Arabs who refused to adhere to the United Nations decision and instead replied by launching a military attack. The U.N. resolution of December 1948 must. therefore. be understood in that context. for the resolution was designed to bring about a peaceful solution through negotiation. That is why the resolution contained a number of provisions besides the one applying to the refugees. The very key paragraph in the U.N. resolution sums up the intent of the United Nations decision when it called upon Israel and her Arab neighbors to "seek agreement by negotiation conducted with a view toward the final settlement of all questions outstanding between them." This is precisely the heart of the whole matter since the Arabs refuse even to sit down at the same table with Israelis to discuss the implementation of the entirewe repeat--entire resolution. The Arabs do not want to negotiate. They want unconditional surrender which. in practical terms. means the destruction of Israel. Ahmed Shukary. the selfproclaimed spokesman for the Arab refugees--a man who worked for the Nazis and their henchmen during World War II and who is currently one of Nassers marionettes--denounced the late Secretary General Hammarskjolds suggestions to solve the refugee problem in these words: "We must all be aware that the Arab refugees will not return to Palestine unless Palestine returns to the Arabs" (New York Times. Mar. 19. 1959). Shukary was merely echoing the views of his mentor. President Nasser. On Fel~ruary 20. 1960. Nasser declared: "You shall liberate Palestine. * * * Today we proclaim to the whole world that we will retrieve our rights with our own hands and that. as we shed blood in the past. we will shed blood and lay down our lives In the future for the glory of the entire Arab nation." Several months later (May 8. 1960) Nasser repeated this theme: "The rights of thePalestinian people are the rights of the entire Arab Nation. and no matter what plots are hatched by Zionism and Imperialism. no matter how great the support of Zionism in the United States and France. we hereby proclaim our determination to retrieve our rights by force of our arms." The propaganda line of the Nasserites on the Arab refugee problem is clear and unmistakable. It was summed up by Radio Cairo in the summer of 1957 when it told its listeners: "The fact that Israel is trying to solve the refugee problem proves she has an interest in solving itand this alone is reason enough to rule out any such attempt by us. * *- This tactic gives the game away. The Arabs do not want a solution of the refugee problem for that would deprive them of a potent weapon which serves as an excuse for their policy of war against Israel. This is not really a novel trick. As a matter of fact.