The New York Times · New York, NY · 7 October 1989

CP-1989-026

U.N. Condemns Israel's Tactics in Arab Revolt

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“Only the United States and Israel voted against a resolution introduced by the Arab countries on behalf of the P.L.O… there were six abstentions: Uruguay, Zaire, El Salvador and the Caribbean nations of St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Antigua and Barbuda, and Grenada.”

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Paul Lewis at the United Nations. A hundred and forty of a hundred and fifty-nine countries vote one way and two vote the other, and the headline calls the intifada an Arab revolt, which is the phrase the papers used for 1936.

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"U.N. Condemns Israel's Tactics in Arab Revolt," The New York Times, 7 October 1989. Covering Palestine archive, CP-1989-026. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-1989-026

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