problem resulting from the 1947 partition of Palestine and the injustices inflicted on the Palestinian nation. 2 O#ieial Records of the General Assembly, Fifth E?nergellcY Special Session, Annexes, agenda item 5, document A/L.523/Rcv.l. 4 35. We then called for the immediate and unconditional withdrawal of all Israeli forces from all the territories invaded in June 1967. Israel proclaimed that it had no territorial designs against the Arab States at all. That proclamation is contained in the verbatim records. That proclamation is to be considered and contrasted with the Israeli insistence now, officially communicated to the Secretary-General and his Special Representative, that it will never return all the occupied territories and never go back to the lines of 5 June 1967. 36. Israel at that time claimed also that it attacked because it had been exposed to the danger of extermi- nation. This myth too has been dissipated by those who created it themselves. According to a member of the Israeli Council of Ministers-and I shall quote his words-during the six-day war “the story of the threat of extermination was invented by Israel to justify the annexation of the occupied territories”. 37. Another Israeli, General Peled, Chief of the Bureau of Logistics during the 1967 conflict, asserted in 1972 that ‘<there had been no danger of the Hebrew State being exterminated by Egypt”. He even went further and asserted that there had been no proof that the Egyptians had really intended to attack Israel at that time. Then there was another statement. General Haim Herzog, of the Israeli Military Intelligence, admitted, with some embarrassment, the non-existence of such a danger. The daily newspaper of the Labour Party, OT, in June 1972, published a debate between Generals Weizmann, Gavish, Peled and Hcrzog in 
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