Israeli - Statesman | October 15, 1894 - July 7, 1965
I imagine that the intention is to get rid of them. The interests of security demand that we get rid of them.
Moshe Sharett
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I explained that we would like to adjust our position on the Syrian question to theirs, as, in our view, they are the decisive factor in our relations with our neighbors, and Syria is unimportant.
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Our role in Israel is a pioneering one, and we need people with certain strength of fiber.
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We are very anxious to bring the Jews of Morocco over and we are doing all we can to achieve this. But we cannot count on the Jews of Morocco alone to build the country, because they have not been educated for this.
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We don't know what may yet happen to us, what military and political defeats we may yet have to face.
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Israel would not do that, both because we cannot afford to be accused by the world of aggression and because we cannot, for security and social reasons, absorb in our midst a substantial Arab population.
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A reprisal of this magnitude... has never been carried out before. I paced back and forth in my room perplexed and completely depressed, feeling helpless.
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I saw clearly how those who saved the state so heroically and courageously in the War of Independence would be capable of bringing a catastrophe upon it if they are given the chance in normal times.
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What is our vision on this earth - war to the end of all generations and life by the sword?
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I am against intervention by a foreign power against us.
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I am against preventive war because it means measures by the UN against us.
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Curious people who have become accustomed to think that one cannot sustain the moral of the army without giving it the freedom to shed blood from time to time.
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