Quotation from Chaim Weizmann “Our claims to the north are imperatively demanded by the requirements of modern economic life” — 1919
Chaim Weizmann to the British Prime Minister Lloyd George in 1919, outlining the "minimum requirements for the realization of a Jewish national home".
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- Weizmann, Chaim (1874-1952) ( 25 quotations )
- "Land of Israel" or variable geometry "biblical lands ( 42 quotations )
- Colonial optimism ( 37 quotations )
" ...the boundaries cannot be drawn exclusively on historic [biblical] lines ... our claims to the north are imperatively demanded by the requirements of modern economic life."
"The whole economic future of Palestine is dependent upon its water supply for irrigation and for electric power, and the water supply must mainly be derived from the slopes of Mount Hermon, from the headwaters of the Jordan and from the Litany [sic] river [of Lebanon]... [We] consider it essential that the Northern Frontier of Palestine should include the Valley of the Litany, for a distance of 25 miles above the bend, and the Western and Southern slopes of Mount Hermon… "
Letter of Chaim Weizmann to David Lloyd George, published in Jewish Observer and Middle East Review , London, November 16 1973, p. 22, quoted by Jeffrey Dillman, « Le pillage de l’eau dans les territoires occupés », Revue d’études palestiniennes , n° 35, Spring 1990, p. 39.
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