Quotation from Chaim Weizmann “The sufferings which every backward race has gone through” — Jan. 17 1930
In a letter to Louis Marshall, president of the American Jewish Committee, Weizmann explained that democracy is irrelevant to the Palestinians, who were in the majority at the time, and that only property rights applied.
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- Superiority / race difference ( 21 quotations )
- Anti-Arab "secular" racism ( 60 quotations )
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"Constitutional government is not a panacea ... in a country like Palestine “democracy” cannot be introduced by decree. In most non- European countries Parliamentary government has proved a sheer farce. (…) [Although] we wish to spare the Arabs as much as we can of the sufferings which every backward race has gone through on the coming of another, more advanced nation ... we must not be driven into the position where any Arab complaint is considered sufficient ground for impeding our work ... a Jew must be able to buy land from an Arab . . . and must not be made responsible for what may or may not happen to the willing seller, or possibly to his grandchildren.
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Quoted by Simha Flapan (former National Secretary of MAPAM party) Zionism and the Palestinians, Croom Helm, 1979, p. 71.
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