Quotation from Chaim Weizmann “The Jews would be fools not to accept it” — Jan. 1937

Chaïm Weizmann, then president of the World Zionist Organization, enthusiastically approves the first partition plan for Palestine proposed by the British.

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The Jews would be fools not to accept it, even if [the land they were allocated] were the size of a tablecloth.

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Norman Rose, The Debate on Partition, 1937-8’, Middle Eastern Studies, November, 1970, January 1971.
Quoted by Simha Plapa, Zionism and the Palestinians, Croom Helm, 1979.

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