Quotation from David et Ben-Zvi Ben Gurion “Tolerance and generosity unparalleled in the history of the Christian peoples of the period” — 1918
In a book in which they totally ignore the contemporary Armenian genocide.
Authors :
- Ben Gurion, David (1886-1973) ( 94 quotations )
- Ben-Zvi, Yitzhak (1884-1963) ( 4 quotations )
- Unclassified ( 12 quotations )
" ...it must be said, to the credit of the Turks, that their rulers behaved toward the conquered with a degree of tolerance and generosity which is unparalleled in the history of the Christian peoples of the period. "
David Ben Gourion and Yitzhak Ben-Zvi, Eretz Israel (Poalei Zion, New-York, 1918), quoted by Yair Auron, The banality of indifference: Zionism and the Armenian Genocide , Rutgers Univ. Press, 2000, p. 324.
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