Word: labib
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Dates: during 1976-1976
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...hauled before a United Nations panel to answer charges of cruelty to Arabs and Zionist expansion. The scene, as often before, was the 15-member Security Council, where Egypt accused Israel of "brutal and illegal actions" against the 650,000 Palestinians on the occupied Jordan West Bank. Zeh-di Labib Terzi, U.N. Spokesman for the Palestine Liberation Organization, urged the council to demand immediate Israeli withdrawal from the West Bank. Terzi's request, if adopted, would certainly provoke another U.S. veto...
...Herzog also decided to attend-after Washington exerted pressure on Jerusalem to alter its longstanding policy of refusing any face-to-face meetings with P.L.O. members. Thus for the first time ever, Israeli and P.L.O. delegates sat down together in the Security Council. Herzog carefully ignored P.L.O. Observer Zehdi Labib Terzi. Terzi interrupted the Israeli frequently on points of order and referred to Israel as the "Zionist entity...