{"id":189088,"date":"1979-01-18T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-11T22:32:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/?p=189088"},"modified":"2019-03-11T22:32:11","modified_gmt":"2019-03-11T22:32:11","slug":"auto-insert-189088","status":"publish","type":"document","link":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/auto-insert-189088\/","title":{"rendered":"Attack in Israel – Letter from Israel"},"content":{"rendered":"
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LETTER DATED 18 JANUARY 1979 FROM THE PERMANENT REPRESENTATIVE<\/p><\/div>\n

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OF ISRAEL To THE ±¬ÁÏÍøITED NATIONS ADDRESSED TO THE PRESIDENT OF<\/p><\/div>\n

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THE SECURITY CO±¬ÁÏÍøCIL<\/p><\/div>\n

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\t<\/span>Further to my letters of 21 December 1978 (S\/12978 and S\/12979), of 14 January 1979 (<\/span>S\/13028<\/a>) and 17 January 1979 (S\/13037), I wish to draw your attention to a further PLO terrorist outrage which occurred in Jerusalem this morning.<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n

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\t<\/span>At about 11.00 (Israel time) an explosive device which had been placed beside a grocer's stand in the Machane Yehuda open market exploded and injured 20 civilians, some seriously. The victims included women and children who had<\/p><\/div>\n

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come to the market to buy provisions on what is traditionally the busiest day of the week. The device was timed to explode in mid-morning, when the market would be at its fullest, with the clear intention of causing havoc and indiscriminate murder.<\/p><\/div>\n

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\t<\/span>Responsibility has already been taken for this crime by the so-called PLO through its spokesman, as reported on Radio Beirut today.<\/p><\/div>\n

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\t<\/span>This is yet another in the recent series of outrages which have been perpetrated by the terrorist PLO, timed, inter alia<\/u>, to coincide both with the ongoing peace process and the meeting of the so-called "Palestinian National Council" which opened in Damascus on 15 January. <\/p><\/div>\n

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\t<\/span>The PLO and its leaders make no attempt to disguise their real intentions, despite the efforts made of late to attribute a moderate image to them. On 10 December 1978, the Reuters News Agency reported Yasser Arafat as stating: "Armed struggle is our only road. We have no other road to reach Jerusalem and Tel-Aviv."<\/p><\/div>\n

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\t<\/span>On 17 January 1979, Arafat was again reported by Reuters from Damascus as calling for an intensification of terror against Israel, "to defeat what he termed 'U.S.-Zionist plots' in the Middle East." This is of course standard PLO jargon to describe the peace efforts in the Middle East.<\/p><\/div>\n

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\t<\/span>I can only repeat that given the true character of this murder organization, the Government of Israel is duty-bound, as I have indicated in previous letters, to take all measures necessary to protect the lives and safety of its citizens.<\/p><\/div>\n

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\t<\/span>I have the honour to request that this letter be circulated as a document of the Security Council.<\/p><\/div>\n

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(Signed<\/u>) Yehuda Z. BLUM<\/p><\/div>\n

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Ambassador<\/p><\/div>\n

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Permanent Representative of Israel<\/p><\/div>\n

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to the United Nations<\/p><\/div>\n

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