particular victims suffer, but it will opeh up the intema- tional arena for a period of lawlessness and a return to the savagery that we witnessed earlier ‘in the century. 168, I asked yesterday how many deportations we were dealing with. The figum, that ,I gave has not been chal- lenged. The number was one expulsion of an active terror- ist in the past four years. Some representatives, including the Syrian representative, said that “mass killings*’ j of Palestinian Arabs were taking place right now. Mass kil- lings, I suppose, by Hama rules would be, say, 20,000. That is the number of. Syrian civilians killed in Hama. Take half of that-10,000: that would be mass killings. But I shall be lenient and say perhaps 1,000, perhaps 100: it is still a mass killing. I shall be more lenient-lo. How about five? How about naming five Palestinian Arabs who have been killed-we can argue later about whether they were innocent or not-by Israeli forces in the past year? I shall be more lenient. How about fewer than five? I suggest we have the names of .those people presented here. Just like yesterday’s figure, today’s challenge says ‘it all. 169. We are dealing here not .merely with the abuse of the Council and its convening for an absolutely preposter- ous and irrelevant reason, but with a distortion, because those very people who have been engaged in mass killings, in mass attacks, in the deliberate and systematic murder of the innocent, are usurping the purpose and meaning of this body, and it would be a terrible continuation of the degra- dation they seek to inflict on ‘it if the draft resolution that they have presented were adopted. 170. The PRESIDENT: It is my understanding that the 
**Analysis**
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Humanitarian aid and relief, International relations