Shukairy vs aid for Arab refugees

Congressional Record: Proceedings and Debates of the ... Congress, Volume 107, Part 24 - United States. Congress - U.S. Government Printing Office, 1961
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It should be pointed out that such aid has been given in the face of deliberate sabotage by Arab oilicials of UNRWA's rehabilitation work.

It is the Arab Governments who deliberately keep these refugees in the most squalid conditions and prevent them from becoming productive members of their respective communities.

While Mr. Shukairy waxed eloquent in defending the alleged private property rights of the Arabs, he had nothing to say about the property rights of the half million Jewish refugees who were forced out of Arab countries.

In this connection, it is interesting to note that while Israel has released the bank deposits of the Arabs who are now in Iraq, the Iraqi Government has refused to reciprocate with regard to Jews who were forced to leave Iraq.

A sidelight to Mr. Shukari's performance was the spectacle of Mr. Morozov, the Soviet delegate, supporting Shukairy's appeal on behalf of the sanctity of private property! Not only was this a strange role for the Russians, but it is also quite out  ...

The record will show that on more than one occasion Mr. Shukairy has publicly declared that the refugee problem cannot be solved by merely upholding private property rights.

On October 2. 1958. he demanded that the UN. General Assembly reverse its resolution of 1947 establishing the State of Israel. In ominous tones he warned:
"The UN can help in an orderly undoing of Israel left it should take place in no orderly manmer.”
One year later, Mr. Shukairy returned to the same theme when he led the Arab Delegations in opposing Secretary General Hammarskjold's plan for economic aid to the Arab refugees. The Secretary General's program envisaged the spending of close to $2 billion within a period of 5 years to create productive jobs for the refugees.
However, Shukairy, speaking for the other Arab Delegates, denounced Mr. Hammerskjold's economic proposals and said: "We must all be aware that the Arab refugees will not return to Palestine unless Palestine returns to the Arabs"
  New York Times Aug. 1959).

The idea that Justice for the Arab refugees can only come with the physical destruction of Israel is at the core of thinking of present Arab leadership, exemplified by President Nasser. On February 20. 1960. Nasser declared:
"You shall liberate Palestine Palestine. . . 
Today we proclaim to the whole world that we will retrieve our rights with our own hands and that , as we shed blood in the past , we will shed blood and lay down our lives in the future for the glory of the entire Arab nation.  Today we are capable of following up our words with deeds ; we are capable of implementing the slogans we utter."
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Congressional Record: Proceedings and Debates of the ... Congress - By United States. Congress - 1965 - p.456
Ahmed Shukairy, the self-proclaimed spokesman for the Arab refugees—a man who worked for the Nazis and their henchmen during World War II and who is currently one of Nasser's marionettes—denounced the late Secretary General Hammarskjold's suggestions to solve the refugee problem in these words:
"We must all be aware that the Arab refugees will not return to Palestine unless Palestine returns to Palestine."
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