“.. Israel is the product of the most sustained historic…

“.. Israel is the product of the most sustained historic tenacity which the ages recall. The state of Israel is on immutable part of the international landscape. To plan the future, without it is to build delusions on sand…” (The United Nations, 3 July 1948)

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