Quotation from David Ben Gurion “The northern border of the Land of Israel should be the Litani River” — 1910
Like Chaim Weizmann, Ben-Gurion requested in 1919 that the Litani River serve as the northern border of the British “Mandate.”
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"The Litani River, or Qasmiyeh as the Arabs call it, marks the dividing line between the two parts of the territory. The northern border of the Land of Israel should therefore be the Qasmiyeh River.
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Quoted by Moshe Gilzad,, The Nakba Is Being Recreated': The Israeli Obsession With Lebanon's Litani River, Haaretz, April 9, 2026
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