Quotation from David Ben Gurion “… but Palestine as a Jewish State” — June 1942
On his return to Palestine after the Biltmore conference, Ben-Gurion, a a meeting of the Histadrut Council at Kfar Vitkin,, emphasized that Biltmore referred to a Jewish state in the whole of Palestine.
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"This is why we formulated our demand not as a Jewish state in Palestine but Palestine as a Jewish state", and he advised "not to identify the Biltmore Program with a Jewish state in part of Palestine.
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Zeev Tzur, From the Partition Dispute to the A lion Plan (Tel Aviv, 1982), pp. 46-47. Quoted by Simha Plapan, The Birth of Israel, Myths and Reality, Patheon Books, 1987, pp. 23-24.
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