(AP/China Post-Taiwan) Israel called on the UN to end what it described as a "campaign of diplomatic incitement" against the Jewish state, denounced Yasser Arafat as "one of the world's icons of terror," and urged its Arab neighbors to make peace. Israeli Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom said Thursday the UN General Assembly has in the last three decades passed "a litany of resolutions designed to discredit Israel....No other country has suffered such unjustified attack and consistent discrimination within the UN system." "The time has come to end this campaign of diplomatic incitement," he said, urging the UN body to "abandon the automatic adoption of anti-Israeli resolutions." "For the sake of our collective future, Israel and the Arab nations must learn to live together side by side....We believe in a common future of peace and prosperity with them," Shalom said.
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