The cabinet statement echoed essentially that of the Foreign Ministry issued a day earlier. It rejected the notion that countries who have refused to come to terms with Israel and accept its existence would determine if Israel was a peace loving nation or not. Text:
The automatic anti-Israel majority prevailing in the United Nations, which six years ago adopted the heinous resolution equating Zionism with racism, has again passed a resolution against the Jewish state. The recommendation is null and void.
Not the representatives of countries which for more than thirty years have refused to make peace or even to negotiate with it will be the ones to determine that Israel is not a "peace loving country". Nor is a superpower which invaded Afghanistan and which moved the Polish government to establish a regime of oppression and the liquidation of the most fundamental human rights going to preach to anybody about "expansionist designs".
Since its rebirth, Israel has striven to conclude peace treaties with all its neighbors. For the sake of peace with Egypt, Israel has made many great sacrifices. Israel needs no moral preaching on the desire for peace. All its governments have proved this striving not by words but by deeds.
The Government of Israel notes with satisfaction that twenty democratic, free countries voted with it against the evil recommendation proposed by the Arab and Communist bloc and expresses to their governments its appreciation for their stand. It also registers the fact that the number of countries which dissociated themselves from that draft, whether by opposing it, abstaining from supporting it, or by absenting themselves from the vote, amount to 71.
The automatic anti-Israel majority in the U.N. General Assembly has demonstrated once again that this international body is an instrument not for the establishment or the maintenance of peace, but, on the contrary, is a tool wielded by hostile states to spread their enmity and hypocrisy, undermining the peace and security of nations.
Israel will persist along its path for the quest for peace and security and the preservation of liberty and democracy in the historic homeland of the Jewish people.
Together with all men of good will, seeking truth, peace and justice, we will carry on with our task, irrespective of the malicious recommendation ES-9/1 of the majority of the U.N. General Assembly.