Word: liveran
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Dates: during 1954-1954
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...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...
...Arabs who left Palestine," Liveran explained, "did so because the leaders of the Arab states themselves forced them out as part of a war maneuver to block the roads by packing civilians into the path of the Jewish army, following the example of Hitler in World War II. This is the origin of the refugee problem...
...Intercollegiate Zionist Federation, a graduate school Israeli group, and the Hillel Society have all charged that the Syrian speaker has received publicity from the U.N. Council in the form of posters, which has not been given to Israeli U.N. delegate Arthur Liveran. Liveran is speaking tomorrow afternoon in Sever...
...talk, and hence would give the Arabs as unfair advantage since the Israelis have been denied the right to have a representative question Asha directly. Richardson replied that questions will be allowed from the floor, and that the Council had done its best for the Israelis by arranging for Liveran to present their side of the Middle East dispute. In addition, Richardson observed, lest anyone charge the U.N. Council with favoritism, "an Israeli speaker had been invited before there was any protest whatsoever...