Iraq Prime Minister Nuri on Radio Baghdad: “Israel’s last attack on Egypt has proved that the fears of Iraq on the subject of the Israeli danger are justified. Iraq’s firm decision is to ask the states concerned with peace and stability and justice to cooperate with Iraq in order to liquidate Israel.” Source: 73, p. […]
Egypt Official Broadcast on Radio Cairo: “The Arabs will not rest so long as Israel remains in existence in this region. They will do everything in their power to destroy her and to cleanse the Middle East of Zionism.” Source: 73, p. 307.
“As early as the first months of 1948, the Arab League issued orders exhorting the people to seek a temporary refuge in neighboring countries, later to return to their abodes…and obtain their share of abandoned Jewish property.” Source: Bulletin of the Research Group for European Migration Problems, 1957. As Hamilton Fish Armstrong, Editor of Foreign […]
Iraq Radio Baghdad: “Iraq has announced openly that the Middle East question cannot be solved except with the removal of Israel from the area. It is expected that the Arabs will cooperate and work towards annihilating this cancer, instead of accusing each other of conspiracies and attacking each other.” Source: 73, p. 308
U.N. Secretary General Dag Hammerjkold, in a report to the U.N. General Assembly: “The international significance of the gulf of Aqaba must be considered to justify the right of innocent passage through the straits of Tiran and the Gulf in accordance with recognized rules of international law.” Source: Public Affairs Institute. Regional Development for Regional […]
Murder In her statement to the UN General Assembly, Golda Meir, then Foreign Minister Of Israel, recited the many violations and acts of bad faith by the Egyptians that led to the Sinai Campaign and its aftermath. Speaking of the fedayeen, she said: A similar fate has befallen the injunction of the General Assembly in […]
Henry R. Labouisse, Director of UNRWA (United Nations Relief and Works Agency), answered the question as to why UNRWA cannot help the refugees to settle and work in the countries where they are: “The answer lies in the realm of politics and in deep-seeded human emotions … it cannot overcome the fact that the Refugees […]
US Secretary of State John Foster Dulles (1953-1959): “The United States recalls that on 28 January 1950, the Egyptian Ministry of Foreign Affairs informed the United States that the Egyptian occupation of the two islands of Tiran and Sanafir at the entrance of the gulf of Aqaba was only to protect the islands themselves against […]
Murder Two civilians were killed by terrorist landmines, next to Nir Yitzhak, on the southern border of the Gaza Strip.
February 20, 1957 American Presidents President Dwight Eisenhower (1953-1961): “We should assume that if Israel withdraws (from Sharm el Sheikh), Egypt will not prevent Israel shipping from using the Suez Canal or the Gulf of Aqaba. If unhappily hereafter Egypt violates the armistice agreement or other international obligation, then this should be dealt with firmly […]