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<ref>[https://digital.bentley.umich.edu/djnews/djn.1962.12.07.001/1] The Detroit Jewish News December 07, 1962. ''Bigotry's Internationalization Leads to Tests in UN, Appeal to World to Avoid Resurgence.
 
<ref>[https://digital.bentley.umich.edu/djnews/djn.1962.12.07.001/1] The Detroit Jewish News December 07, 1962. ''Bigotry's Internationalization Leads to Tests in UN, Appeal to World to Avoid Resurgence.
 
Dramatic exposes of attempts to internationalize the anti-Semitic
 
Dramatic exposes of attempts to internationalize the anti-Semitic
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movement, an Arab spokesman's brazen appeal to bigotry at the United Nations and the revelations of the extent of the worldwide movement of hate contained in current studies of the issue marked the Week's development in many spheres...The move for the recall by Saudi Arabia of its permanent representative to the UN, Ahmad Shukairy, appeared to be under way with Arab diplomats heading the drive. The desire for Shukairy's removal from the UN scene, long contemplated by more moderate Arabs here, gained heavy impetus after the official Saudi Arabian spokesman...''</ref><ref>[https://www.jta.org/1963/09/12/archive/israels-relations-with-non-arab-lands-in-middle-east-irk-arabs Israel’s Relations with Non-arab Lands in Middle East Irk Arabs,'' JTA, September 12, 1963. ''The political committee then decided to invite Ahmed Shukairy, former Saudi Arabian delegation head at the United Nations, to join the body as a Palestine “expert.” Mr. Shukairy was fired from his UN post by the Saudi Arabian Government last winter, after some Arab representatives felt he had gone too far in the diatribes against Israel by calling upon the UN to encourage formation of anti-Semitic organizations similar to the Tacuara movement in Argentina. In addition to Jordan’s disagreement about the “Palestine entity” plan, another inter-Arab split was seen in regard to Israel when Lebanon sought revision of a resolution calling for a boycott of banks and firms that deal with Israel. The Beirut Government had previously been reported feeling that the boycott hurts some of the Arab countries more than Israel. However, the Beirut delegation’s proposal was defeated.'']</ref>
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movement, an Arab spokesman's brazen appeal to bigotry at the United Nations and the revelations of the extent of the worldwide movement of hate contained in current studies of the issue marked the Week's development in many spheres...The move for the recall by Saudi Arabia of its permanent representative to the UN, Ahmad Shukairy, appeared to be under way with Arab diplomats heading the drive. The desire for Shukairy's removal from the UN scene, long contemplated by more moderate Arabs here, gained heavy impetus after the official Saudi Arabian spokesman...''</ref><ref>[https://www.jta.org/1963/09/12/archive/israels-relations-with-non-arab-lands-in-middle-east-irk-arabs Israel’s Relations with Non-arab Lands in Middle East Irk Arabs,'' JTA, September 12, 1963. ''The political committee then decided to invite Ahmed Shukairy, former Saudi Arabian delegation head at the United Nations, to join the body as a Palestine “expert.” Mr. Shukairy was fired from his UN post by the Saudi Arabian Government last winter, after some Arab representatives felt he had gone too far in the diatribes against Israel by calling upon the UN to encourage formation of anti-Semitic organizations similar to the Tacuara movement in Argentina. In addition to Jordan’s disagreement about the “Palestine entity” plan, another inter-Arab split was seen in regard to Israel when Lebanon sought revision of a resolution calling for a boycott of banks and firms that deal with Israel. The Beirut Government had previously been reported feeling that the boycott hurts some of the Arab countries more than Israel. However, the Beirut delegation’s proposal was defeated.'']</ref> from [[UN]] post. 
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He fired up his followers into [[Jihad]], and said that anyone "who ever dares to speak in public of Arab friendship-with the United States in any Arab village or town would be torn to pieces."<ref>[https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/382480217/ The Los Angeles Times, Sunday, December 31, 1967, p.28]</ref>
 
He fired up his followers into [[Jihad]], and said that anyone "who ever dares to speak in public of Arab friendship-with the United States in any Arab village or town would be torn to pieces."<ref>[https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/382480217/ The Los Angeles Times, Sunday, December 31, 1967, p.28]</ref>
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After his demise, Arabs' defeat at the six-day 1967 war, at times he tried to rewrite his annihilation statement made before that war. Yet, even author Moshe Shemesh concluded that his words lents credibility that he meant annihilation.<ref>Moshe Shemesh: 'Israel Studies,' volume 8, 2003, p.78 '...At the same time, his statement "in my estimate none of them would remain alive" obviously sounded like the intention to destroy or liquidate the Jews and that their fate was sealed. It certainly lent credibility to the claim that he had called for throwing the Jews into the sea.'</ref>
 
After his demise, Arabs' defeat at the six-day 1967 war, at times he tried to rewrite his annihilation statement made before that war. Yet, even author Moshe Shemesh concluded that his words lents credibility that he meant annihilation.<ref>Moshe Shemesh: 'Israel Studies,' volume 8, 2003, p.78 '...At the same time, his statement "in my estimate none of them would remain alive" obviously sounded like the intention to destroy or liquidate the Jews and that their fate was sealed. It certainly lent credibility to the claim that he had called for throwing the Jews into the sea.'</ref>
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On other occasions Shukairy admitted it but lamented that he is singled out for this among other Arab leaders. As Swiss journalist reported.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=RmYeAAAAMAAJ&focus=searchwithinvolume&q=%22sweeping+of+the+Jews%22 The New Middle East, Issues 16-39, New Middle East 1970,p.4: 'Mr Shukairy claims that when in his days of glory he publicly advocated the liquidation of Israel and "sweeping of the Jews into the sea," he reflected the accepted official Arab outlook, an outlook that was changed only by the outcome of the war of 1967. Mr Shukairy is indignant that such extremism should be fathered on him alone.']</ref>
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On other occasions Shukairy admitted it but lamented that he is singled out for this among other Arab leaders. As Swiss journalist reported.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=RmYeAAAAMAAJ&focus=searchwithinvolume&q=%22sweeping+of+the+Jews%22 The New Middle East, Issues 16-39, New Middle East 1970,p.4: 'Mr Shukairy claims that when in his days of glory he publicly advocated the liquidation of Israel and "sweeping of the Jews into the sea," he reflected the accepted official Arab outlook, an outlook that was changed only by the outcome of the war of 1967. Mr Shukairy is indignant that such extremism should be fathered on him alone.']</ref>. As well as a report of his own publication in 1971<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=CFYBAAAAMAAJ&focus=searchwithinvolume&q=Apologia 'Arab Guerilla Power,' 1967-1972, Edgar O'Ballance, 1973, p.37: ''Shukairy sank into obscurity, and later (in May 1971) published his apologia, which he called Dialogues and Secrets with Kings (in Beirut in Arabic). In it he defended his notorious demand 'to liquidate the state of Israel and throw the Jews into the sea' as being the accepted view then of the Arab heads of state, Arab politicians, who had since turned on him and prised him from office and the Arab press.'']</ref>.
    
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