Syrian delegate Ahmad Shukeiri denied during the weekend that he had threatened Israel with destruction, as charged in an Israel note to the United Nations Security Council. The Syrian delegate said that the Israel complaint to the Council was full of “misquotations.”
Shukeiri said that Israel’s existence was “anyway melting away” and that there was no need for a war to achieve the new state’s downfall. He set the date for the Jewish State’s collapse as 1955, when, he said, the United Nations will have to “appoint a Jewish commissioner” to administer the country, since it would be liquidated “economically and politically.” He carried his prediction o###tep further by expressing the opinion that the U.N. Commissioner would recommend the setting up of a “free and independent Palestine, where Moslems, Christians and Jews would be equally represented.”
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