text: sands, tens of thousands, thousands, perhaps hundres. In the last four years, the grand total has been: one. So much for mass deportation. What possible relation does this have with the provisions of the Convention? None, none whatsoever. And everybody here knows that. 96. Not only are our’ actions legal, but we provide the terrorists with all the judicial protection present in a democracy. The terrorist suspects can appeal to an impar- tial and independent judiciary, the:kind of judiciary that does not exist anywhere in the Arab world-for example, in Qatar. And in fact the Israeli Supreme Court has on occasion overturned the Government’s decisions in these matters. 97. So what we have here is this: the terrorist savages his victim and then condemns him for defending himself. The boastful murderers of women and children dare invoke international law. This is indeed a theatre of the absurd. 98. But there is also a second way in which this forum is being abused. The Charter of the United Nations stipulates that the Security Council should have primary responsibil- ity for maintaining international peace and ,security. In recent years, one million casualties have been sustained in the war between Iraq and Iran. In. Lebanon, in the past decade, one hundred thousand Arabs have been killed and hundreds of thousands have been injured by Arabs, by Syrians, by Palestinians, by Lebanese. This tradition is very much alive. In the past few months, thousands of Lebanese and Palestinian Arabs have been massacred and maimed in the intramural slaughter in Lebanon-a slaugh- ter that, as I have said, is cynically encouraged by Syria. 9 And I have confined myself only to two examples in Israel’s immediate region. In the midst of all this bloodshed, the Security Council has been convened only 
analysis: The text appears to be a political speech or statement, addressing the topic of international relations, terrorism, and the role of the United Nations in maintaining peace and security. The author is criticizing the actions of certain countries and highlighting the hypocrisy of some actors in the international arena. The text does not mention specific economic, environmental, or scientific issues, but rather focuses on the political and legal aspects of international relations.