Great Throughts Treasury

"Do not dissipate your powers in petty activities: you were fashioned for great things."

"There are many obstinate Zionists in the early days but none had his arrogance. He was rude and despotic, paternal and sentimental… Had he been asked he would have said he could not stomach the Arabs or the English. He ignored them both as long as possible."

"We cannot start the Jewish state with... half the population being Arab . . . Such a state cannot survive even half an hour. And about transferring sixty thousand Arab families he said: "It is most moral... I am ready to come and defend ... it before the Almighty.""

"We must continually raise the demand that our land be returned to our possession... If there are other inhabitants there, they must be transferred to some other place. We must take over the land. We have a great and nobler ideal than preserving several hundred thousands of [Palestinian] Arabs fellahin [peasants]."

"What we can demand today is that all Transjordan be included in the Land of Israel… on condition that Transjordan would be either be made available for Jewish colonization or for the resettlement of those [Palestinian] Arabs, whose lands [in Palestine] we would purchase. Against this, the most conscientious person could not argue… For the [Palestinian] Arabs of the Galilee, Transjordan is a province . . . this will be for the resettlement of Palestine's Arabs. This is the land problem… Now the [Palestinian] Arabs do not want us because we want to be the rulers. I will fight for this. I will make sure that we will be the landlords of this land… because this country belongs to us not to them . "

"When the Jewish people will have redeemed the Land of Israel, the Land if Israel will redeem the Jewish people."

"Zionism is a transfer of the Jews. Regarding the transfer of the [Palestinian] Arabs this is much easier than any other transfer. There are Arab states in the vicinity… and it is clear that if the [Palestinian] Arabs are removed [to these states] this will improve their condition and not the contrary."

"Land is acquired by force --- that is, by conquest in war, or in other words, by ROBBING land form its owner? by expropriation via government authority; or by purchase?[The Zionist movement was limited to the third choice] until at some point we become rulers."

"We cannot begin the Jewish state with a population of which the [Palestinian] Arabs living on their lands constitute almost half and where the Jews exist on the land in very small numbers and they are all crowded in Tel Aviv and its vicinity... and the worst is not only the [Palestinian] Arabs here constitute 50 percent or 45 percent but 75 percent of the land is in the hands of the [Palestinian] Arabs. Such a state cannot survive even for half an hour... The question is not whether they will be majority or a minority in Parliament. You know that even a small minority could disrupt the whole order of parliamentary life..... therefore I would say to the [Peel] Commission and the government that we would not accept reduced Land of Israel without you giving us the land, on the one hand, and removing the largest number of [Palestinian] Arabs-particularly the peasants- on the other before we come forward to take the reins of government in our lands even provisionally."

"What we can demand today is that all Transjordan be included in the Land of Israel? on condition that Transjordan would be either be made available for Jewish colonization or for the resettlement of those [Palestinian] Arabs, whose lands [in Palestine] we would purchase. Against this, the most conscientious person could not argue? For the [Palestinian] Arabs of the Galilee, Transjordan is a province . . . this will be for the resettlement of Palestine's Arabs. This is the land problem? Now the [Palestinian] Arabs do not want us because we want to be the rulers. I will fight for this. I will make sure that we will be the landlords of this land? because this country belongs to us not to them ."

"We cannot start the Jewish state with... half the population being Arab? Such a state cannot survive even half an hour. And about transferring sixty thousand Arab families he said: It is most moral... I am ready to come and defend... it before the Almighty."

"Zionism is a transfer of the Jews. Regarding the transfer of the [Palestinian] Arabs this is much easier than any other transfer. There are Arab states in the vicinity? and it is clear that if the [Palestinian] Arabs are removed [to these states] this will improve their condition and not the contrary."