Abba Eban was the Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations and therefore their is going to be an Israeli bias.
The historical context is significant as it defines the Israeli bias to the conflict and does not aim to justify the other side. When the document calls for peaceful recognition of every state in the region it does not do justice to the other sides as they believe Israel unrighteously took territory from them.
Abba Eban talks about the holocaust and the death of six million jews and identifies it as the main cause for the necessity of the existence of the state of Israel. He claims that the crisis in the middle east is perpetrated by other countries and also that they are aggressively infringing on Israels right to exist. He asserts that the main perpetrators are the Soviet Union and Arab States. Also it is said that "The Six Days War" was solely Israel defending itself and related it to historical defensive battles like Stalingrad to try to delegitimize the Soviet assertion that Israels behaviors was aggressive. Eban gives his vision for peace including access to the holy lands and calls for coexistence. In his resolution to the security council he calls for all states to be peacefully recognized. The Palestinian charter claims that anyone whose father is a Palestinian is also a Palestinian. It also aims at zionism's elimination from Palestine.
"I shall invite every peace-loving state represented here to ask itself how it would have acted on that day if it faced similar dangers."
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