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Editorials from the New York Times Summarize Injustice of the UN PLO
The following editorials ap- estinian leader Yassir Arafat ese spokesman declared that
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peared in the New York
Times on Nov. 23 and Nov.
25.
CAUSE QF TERROR
Conning a majority of the
United Nations into a grant
of national respectability was
relatively easy—and rela-
tively meaningless.
The real challenge for Pal-
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and his myopic sponsors
among the Arab leaders has
now been thrust tragically
before them; to assert their
authority and discipline, so
easily endorsed by govern-
ments far away in geogra-
phy and understanding, up-
on fanatic murderers who
consider themselves far more
worthy fighters for the Pal-
estinian cause.
The latest hijacking of a
British airliner by three dis-
sident Palestinian gunmen,
the cold-blooded murder of
a West German banker
whose only crime was to
have been on tht plane, these
are acts of insane cruelty
which further degrade the
whole Palestinian movement.
Condemnation of this deed
by the Palestine Liberation
Organization and the appar-
ent reluctance of Arab gov-
ernments to give succor to
the airborne gangsters was
the least that could have
been expected from civilized
men; if only they had so -re-
acted long ago.
The PLO and Arab leaders
cannot shed all their respon-
sibility for a long series of
terroristic outrages by belat-
ed expressions of dismay. It
was Mr. Arafat himself who
stood before the United Na-
tions General Assembly less
than two weeks ago to give
justification to warped minds
intent upon criminal. designs.
"Whoever stands by a just
cause . . . cannot possibly
be called terrorist," he said.
Now he and the Arab re-
gimes that cheer for him
have seen how this inhuman
doctrine can be used against
their own political interests.
* * *
PLO vs. UNESCO
In the name of "culture,"
the Arab bloc and its obe-
dient Communist and African
allies have succeeded in pol-
iticizing the heretofore non-
political United Nations Edu-
cational, Scientific and Cul-
tural Organization by ban-
ning Israel participation and
cutting off the modest aid
received for its museums, li-
braries and restorations —
a sum, incidentally, that
amounts to about one-eighth
of Israel's own contribution
to UNESCO.
This shameful act, con-
demned by the United States,
Canada and most of the
Western Kuropean and La-
tin-American nations, in ef-
fect-makes the Palestine Lib-
eration Organization the cen-
sor of UNESCO's activities.
Archeologists from`- Israel
and other countries have
been uncovering the debris
of the centuries that has ac-
cumulated around the south-
western edge of Jerusalem's
Western . Wall to reveal the
history and artifacts of the
ancient city of Herod, with-
out however touching - any of
the buildings or monuments
belonging to any religious
group.
Despite the recognized in-
ternational nature of Israel's
and UNESCO's activities, the
PLO forced the general con-
ference in Paris to withhold
aid because the "historical
features" of Jerusalem have
supposedly been altered. The
politicized bloc went beyond
this—revealing that its aim
was not preservation at all—
by excluding Israel from the
European or any other of the
regional groups. Its Leban-
Israel is "a state that be-
longs nowhere."
When UNESCO took the
initiative of organizing inter-
national action to safeguard
ancient- Egyptian monuments
in Nubia at the request of
the United Arab Republic
and the Republic of Sudan,
the nations, of the world
helped preserve these ar-
cheological treasures.
Millions of dollars were
contributed by Western coun-
tries, without considering
these monuments part of any
political bloc or geographical
region.
UNESCO, like other spe-
cialized UN agencies, has up
to now been above the bat-
tles in the General Assem-
bly. The PLO would tear it
all down and, with it, the
work of educators and scien-
tists who have cooperated
across the curtains of the
world. Not one historical ex-
cavation but UNESCO itself
will collapse in ruins if the
PLO dominates the past—
and the U.N.'s future. .
* *
INVITATION TO DISASTER.
Twenty-seven years ago
this month, after exhaustive-
ly examining all possible
remedies for resolving an in-
creasingly bloody conflict be-
tween Arabs and Jews in
Palestine, a special commit-
tee of the United Nations
recommended that the dis-
puted territory be partitioned
into separate independent
Arab and Jewish states as
the only practical solution.
The General Assembly
adopted that recommenda-
tion by a vote of 33 to 13,
with 'both the United States
and the Soviet Union voting
in the affirmative. The foun-
ders of Israel promptly ac-
cepted this pragmatic com-
promise. The Arabs did not.
Although both sides have
been guilty of grave provo-
cations, the Arabs' refusal
to accept the United Nations
peace plan, to recognize the
right of Israel to coexist in
peace as a sovereign state
beside her Arab neighbors,
has remained at the root of
a generation of bloodshed
and war in the Middle East.
, The first real hope for
peace in the area emerged
only after last fall's trauma-
tic fourth Arab-Israeli con-
flict, when some Arab states,
notably Egypt, indicated they
were , prepared to negotiate
a settlement which would
recognize the reality and the
rights of Israel.
This monumental break-I
through has now been disas-
trously undermined by the
irresponsible action of the
General Assembly in adopt-
ing an •Arab-sponsored reso-
lution on Palestine that would,
in effect, turn the clock back
to 1947.
The problem does not lie
in the resolution's reaffirma-
tion of the Palestinian right
to independence and sover-
eignty nor in its recognition
of the right of the Palestinian
peoPle to be represented at
peace talks. These rights
have always existed, al-
though they have often been
neglected by other parties to
the digpute, including the
Arab states.
The tragic difficulty lies in
the Assembly majority's fail-
ure to insist on the concur-
rent rights of the state of
Israel, and in the Assembly's
blind acceptance of a defi-
nition of Palestinian rights
laid down by a self-anointed
leadership—the Palestine Lib-
aration Organization—which
continues to reject the UN's
own partition principle, i.e.,
Israel's right to exist.
This incredible surrender
to a group which has stooped
—and continues to stoop—
to unspeakable acts of ter-
rorism to advance its ex-
treme demands is an invita-
tion to more bloodshed, an-
other Middle East war and
potential disaster for man-
kind.
Fortunately for mankind,
but not for the United Na-
tions, General Assembly res-
olutions carry little weight
in the real world any more.
The kind of mindless bloc-
voting that gave the Arabs
their "triumphs" this week
at Turtle Bay and in parallel
anti-Israeli actions at a
UNESCO conference in• Paris
has all but eliminated the
world organization as a seri-
ous force for good. or evil.
The more significant de-
velopment here this week
was the unanimity with which
the United States, the nations
of the European Common
Market, and to a lesser ex-
tent even the hypocritical
members of the Soviet bloc
spoke, up in debate for the
right of Israel to live in peace
and security behind recog-
nized borders. .
That is the real message
that the heady representa-
tives of the Palestinians
should carry with them back
to the Middle East. If they
16—Friday, Nov. 29, 1974
would heed it, there might
yet be some hope for a set-
tlement that would offer jus-
tice to all parties, including
the Palestinian people.
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