Quotation from Max Nordau “But there are Arabs in Palestine! I didn’t know that” — 1897

Reactionary and elitist thinker, organizer of the first Zionist Congresses, addressing Theodor Herzl.

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" But there are Arabs in Palestine! I didn’t know that! We are committing an injustice. "

Quoted by Amos Elon The Israelis : Founders and Sons (Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1970), but this author achnowledges that the citation is dubious: /www.nybooks.com/articles/2002/12/19/israelis-palestinians-what-went-wrong/

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