Quotation from Chaim Weizmann “I have no understanding of and no sympathy for the demand for a Jewish majority in Palestine” — Jul. 1931
In an interview - given to the Jewish Telegraph Agency - that contributed to his elimination from the presidency of the Zionist Congress.
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" I have no understanding of and no sympathy for the demand for a Jewish majority in Palestine. Majority does not guarantee security, majority is not necessary for the development of Jewish civilisation and culture. The world will construe this demand only in the sense that we want to drive out the Arabs. "
Chaim Weizmann to the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, cquoted in Oskar K. Rabinowicz, Fifty years of Zionism: A Historical Analysis of Dr. Weizmann’s Trial and Error
, London, Robert Anscombe, 1950, p.80.
Quoted by Rose, The question of Zion
, Princeton Univ. Press, 2005, p.49.
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