Arthur Read’s Reviews > Crime and No Punishment: Zionist-Israeli Terrorism, 1939-1972 > Status Update

The resolution went unheeded, like all other resolutions affecting the situation in the Middle East...In the meantime, terrorism, torture and violation of human rights continue in Israeli occupied territories, and the United Nations appears helpless to command respect for its authority and implementation of its resolutions.

The Sunday Times reported: "In some places there has been sweeping destruction of Arab homes, i.e the well-known case of the 220 families whose houses were leveled in front of the Wailing Wall immediately after the Israeli occupation of Jerusalem in order to provide an open space for Jewish pilgrims. Since then, other Arab homes have been demolished in the Old City, w/o accommodation being provided for the occupants"

9/16/72 - The Israeli army crossed into Lebanon, & for 36 hrs attacked villages in 250 sq km area, killing at random & destroying houses...

But the ugliest scene, for which no words can be found, is the tragedy of a car deliberately run over & crushed by an IDF tank w/ 7 members of 1 family in it. Their bodies were packed w/ the wreckage..This will go down in history as one of the most despicable Israeli terror acts

8 April 1970 — Israeli planes, using napalm bombs, once again struck at civilian targets in Egypt, but this time their objective was a school in Bahr El-Bakar, killing forty-six children. The savagery of this attack far exceeds anything the Arabs have done against Israel.

3/2/69 - The ICRC delegate reported on the [indiscriminate bombing attack on 2 Syrian villages]:

"I was convinced that the atack was only on civilian targets. At Hame, a fridge factory, a sugar factory, & a few houses were destroyed. There were no fedayeen bases. The 40 wounded were all civilians, mostly women & children. The same applied to the 9 dead. The attack occurred at a time when people were leaving for work

To give a full account of all acts of terrorism, murder, destruction of property, confiscation of Arab lands, kidnapping and violation of human rights, committed by the Israeli authorities in the period between June 1967 and September 1972, would fill volumes.

If the Israelis had not been practising acts of terror, murder and violation of human rights against the people of Palestine and surrounding areas all these years, they would not have closed their territory to investigations demanded by the United Nations and other international bodies. The fact that they did, means that they have something to hide.

Foreigners have drawn attn to [Israeli inhumane treatment]. Norman Dacey: "I've walked thru Egyptian hospitals & seen rows of beds of children, their bodies burned by American-made napalm dropped from American-built planes in claimed 'defence' of Israel. I have sat in 12 refugee camps in Gaza & West Bank, hearing from Palestinians who've been forced from the land they had lived 4 gens, exiled by an alien army

"Does the Israel of Qibya, Gaza, Kafr Qasem & the wanton attacks on Egypt have the moral right to sit in judgment [of Eichmann]? Israeli leaders & news vehemently denounce those Germans who were silent during the beastly Nazi reign. Even German liberals became Nazis, it is said. But how do the Jews in Israel behave? Do they not approve—not tacitly, but quite loudly—the inhuman actions of their government?"

The Arabs of Deir Yasin, Qibya, Kafr Qasem, Gaza & many other places, who were massacred in cold blood by the Zionists; the nearly 1 million Arabs who were terrorized out of their homes in 1948 & forced to lead lives of hopelessness & poverty in refugee camps; & whose fundamental human rights have been suppressed & usurped; are these Arabs not human beings?

Not according to the Talmud, no.