Israeli - Statesman | October 15, 1894 - July 7, 1965
So we need people who will remain steadfast in any hardship and who have a high degree of resistance.
Moshe Sharett
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We have forgotten that we have not come to an empty land to inherit it, but we have come to conquer a country from people inhabiting it, that governs it by the virtue of its language and savage culture.
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Arabs respect only the language of force.
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As for the long-term future: I am prepared to see in this a vision, not a mystical way but in a realistic way, of a population exchange on a much more important scale and including larger territories.
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As for now, we must not forget who would have to exchange the land? those villages which live more than others on irrigation, on orange and fruit plantations, in houses built near water wells and pumping stations, on livestock and property and easy access to markets.
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Fear is the main factor in Arab politics... There is no Arab who is not harmed by Jews' entry into Palestine.
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By the reduction of the Arabs on the one hand and Jewish immigration in the transition period on the other, we will ensure an absolute Hebrew majority in a parliamentary regime.
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When the Jewish state is established - it is very possible that the result will be transfer of Arabs.
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Once the return tide starts, it will be impossible to stem it, and it will prove our undoing.
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As for the future, we are equally determined to explore all possibilities of getting rid, once and for all, of the huge Arab minority which originally threatened us.
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The opportunities which the present position open up for a lasting and radical solution of the most vexing problem of the Jewish state are so far-reaching as to take one's breath away.
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Even of if a certain backlash is unavoidable, we must make the most of the momentous chance with which history has presented us so swiftly and so unexpectedly.
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