179. I turn now to my statement in explanation of vote. 180. I must first point out that the confrontational debate we have witnessed yesterday and today has done little to serve the cause of peace. In our view, the often intemperate and unwarranted language used by many members to criticize Israel has tended only to distract and disrupt and to complicate the search for a just solution to the problems of the Middle East. It has been a matter of particular concern to us that this should be taking place when a process of peace is under way in the Middle East. 181. I have to note in particular a number of references here to the Nazis and nazism. One or another contempo- rary situation has been repeatedly described here as a form of nazism, as being analogous to the crimes of the Nazi period. This is patent nonsense. I can only appeal for an end to this sort of harmful, indeed poisonous, rhetoric. 182 It is particularly distressing to listen to rhetoric charging the United States Government with the “heinous crimes” of responding to public opinion in determining its foreign and domestic policies, helping to provide Israel with a sense of security and attempting to find a way to bring about a just and lasting peace between Israel and its neighbours. I had hoped to listen to and participate in a reasoned debate. I regret that, instead, I have heard the preaching of hate in this Chamber. 183: Coming now to the subject of this debate, let me say that I believe we have another problem here-namely, the selective application of the law. This is a phenomenon which, regrettably, is becoming ever more frequent in the Council and could well be the death knell of any system of 
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