Quotation from David Ben Gurion “All of them together are unable to stand up to us” — Mar. 14 1948
In a report to Moshe Sharett.
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"It is now clear, without the slightest doubt, that were we to face the Palestinians alone, everything would be all right. They, the decisive majority of them, do not want to fight us, and all of them together are unable to stand up to us, even at the present state of our organization and equipment.
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Political and Diplomatic Documents of CZA and ISA, doc. 274, p. 460. Quoted by Simha Flapan, The Birth of Israel, Myths and Realities, Croom Helm, 1987, p.73.
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