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...Manhattan that message was apparently heard. A similar resolution, demanding Israel's ejection from the 157-member U.N. General Assembly, was losing momentum. Libyan Ambassador to the U.N. Ali Treiki announced on Friday that a 20-member Arab bloc would cease, for the moment at least, to press for Israel's ostracism...
...Arab League to oust Israel from the United Nations arouses both anger and contempt. On the one hand, the Arab's hypocrisy in trying to go beyond their usual verbal assaults on the Jewish state inspires outrage. On the other hand, the counter-productive short-sightedness the Libyan-led move displayed seems evident...
When asked why his country was trying to expel Israel from the General Assembly, the Libyan ambassador to the U.N. explained, "Israel is not a peace-loving nation." Assuming for a moment the validity of that statement, you wonder whether Libya won't go after Iran and Iraq next. The little war those two countries are fighting has claimed tens of thousands of lives. Or how about the Soviet Union, whose troops recently slaughtered more than 200 Afghan civilians in a single afternoon? And what of the Palestine Liberation Organization, currently seeking U.N. recognition? Won't the Libyans...
...term disappears without a trace, and the Shah of Iran is no longer mentioned as a steadfast ally of the U.S. Egypt has a sharply different role: now it is assumed not to be a reliable Soviet client state but, in alliance with Saudi Arabia, a force that extinguishes Libyan extremism, helps to impose moderation on the Israelis and thus stabilizes the Middle East. Otherwise, our next spasm of global bloodshed remains much as imagined four years ago in The Third World War: August 1985 by retired British General Sir John Hackett, 71, and his military associates. So does...
Concluded the Libyan leader: "Israel should not be joyful about its operation in Lebanon, because it is not over yet. Inshalhah [if God wills], Israel will be destroyed. But so will America's interests in the Arab world be destroyed, and everywhere else as well...