Salient. Official Newspaper of the Victoria University Students' Association. Vol 41 No. 9. April 24 1978
[Introduction]
In the Wellington "Evening Post" on 3rd March the Israeli Ambassador to New Zealand launched a savage attack on a film reviewer who had sufficient temerity to ponder over the justifications and motives of terrorism. The Ambassador, Mr. Morris, condemned the sickness in society that permitted such intellectual indulgences. Besides making the ridiculous claim that the Palestinians had never lived in Palestine, he launched into a tirade about "international terrorism" and equated Israel's incursion into Southern Lebanon with "society's will to protect its physical and moral well being".
In his statements, he echoes the words a few days previously of the Chief Rabbi of the United Congregations of the British Commonwealth (the Very Rev. Dr. Immanuel Jakobovits) who said that, "Something must be done about the nests of terror." 1
In asserting such things, these supporters of Israel are trying to pull down a curtain on history and the wool over the eyes of the public at large. Israel was a state founded on terrorism and is still maintained by it.