text: 117. After nearly six years of agony, failure, outbursts of violence and the unmistakable signs of inevitable explosion, the Security Council is taking up again what it had started but left unfinished in November 1967. The urgent effort at peacemaking, initiated by the Council then, is now, through both commission and omission, nearly a dead body. The omission belongs to the Council, which outlined in its resolution 242 (1967) of 22 November 1967 the course of a just peace in the Middle East but failed to follow up its pronouncement with concrete and timely action. The commission falls upon Israel, which had created the problem in the first place and has since 1967 worked diligently to compound it and close every avenue for its just and constructive resolution. T]le Security Council is meeting today to confront both those aspects of the explosive Middle East situation. 11X. Let us start with the role of the Security Council. But before I speak of whal the Council has omitted to do and what it must, by right and by duty, do, allow me a little introduction of my country’s place in the Council’s concerns and proceedings. Jordan is a major aggrieved party in the present conflict in the Middle East. It is connected by bonds of history, geography, interest, grievance, suf- fering and claim for justice to the realities of war and peace in the Middle East. It is a country torn by occupation, bleeding every day in economic, human and emotional terms. Over one third of Jordan’s citizens have been under occupation since June 1967. Nearly one third of its total population consists of displaced refugees tossed into its embraces by the ruthless vivisection of Palestine in 1947-1948. Hundreds of thousands of its own and other citizens have since the 1967 occupation flooded its eastern 
analysis: The text appears to be a speech or statement made by a representative of Jordan to the United Nations Security Council, discussing the country's grievances and concerns regarding the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The speech focuses on the humanitarian and political aspects of the situation, highlighting the suffering of Jordanian citizens and the failure of the Security Council to take concrete action to resolve the conflict.