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...worst outbreaks of Israeli-Arab violence since the 1956 Sinai-Suez crisis, and it brought the U.N. Security Council into emergency session. What the council heard about seemed to be a battle of inches. Accusing Israel of "wanton aggression," Syria's U.N. Ambassador Rafik Asha charged that the gravel road on which the Israeli patrol had been traveling was 50 yards inside the Syrian border. Not so, replied Israeli Ambassador Michael Comay angrily: according to a 1962 U.N. survey, the road is seven yards from the border, and on the Israeli side...
Liveran's speech followed an attack by Syria's chief U.N. delegate, Rafik Asha, who claimed that Israel has refused to take care of its Arab refugees as called for in the U.N. plan for partition of Palestine...
...million Arabs were terrorized and finally expelled in the establishment of Israel," Asha asserted. "The refugees," he continued, "remain the most important. single problem arising out of Zionism in Palestine...
Furthermore, said Asha, the Israelis treat those Arabs who remain as second class citizens, denying them equal wages for equal work. "These people," claimed Asha, "are transplanted at will to make room for newly arrived Jewish immigrants." And Israel, he went on, is luring unlimited amounts of immigrants into the country beyond Israel's limited capacity--a situation, he said, pointing to inevitable territorial expansion...
...Israeli side of the question will be presented today at 2 p.m. in Sever 11 by Israel's U.N. delegate, Arthur Liveran, who countered many of Asha's points last night in a preview of today's speech. Among other points, Liveran criticized the Arabs with a "distortion of history," and claimed that most of the present Near Eastern tensions, including the refugee problem, are the result of the war the Arabs started against Israel...