Chaim Herzog interview - 1975

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Some film of a demonstration, and an interview with Chaim Herzog in 1975. As Wikipedia notes, "In 1975, Herzog was appointed Israel's Ambassador to the United Nations, in which capacity he served until 1978. During his term the UN adopted the "Zionism is Racism" resolution (General Assembly Resolution 3379), which Herzog condemned and symbolically tore up (as his father had done to one of the British white papers regarding the British Mandate in Palestine), saying: "For us, the Jewish people, this resolution based on hatred, falsehood and arrogance, is devoid of any moral or legal value. For us, the Jewish people, this is no more than a piece of paper and we shall treat it as such." In recent years British historians headed by Simon Sebag-Montefiore have included this speech in a book on speeches that changed the world, which includes others by Martin Luther King Jr., Nelson Mandela, Winston Churchill and John F. Kennedy."
Herzog was later President of Israel, and died in April, 1997. His son, Isaac Herzog, is now President of Israel.
There are no credits on the film, so I cannot determine the creator...it was a bit of 16mm film found in an estate collection. Posted here for historical information and purposes of critique.

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