Quotation from David Ben Gurion “If we become merely landlords, then this will not be our homeland” — 1934
In a letter to Palestinian nationalist leader Moussa Alami.
Author :
- Ben Gurion, David (1886-1973) ( 94 quotations )
- The objective is not to cohabitate ( 29 quotations )
- Strictly separate from the Palestinians ( 40 quotations )
" We do not want to create a situation like that which exists in South Africa, where the whites are the owners and rulers, and the blacks are the workers. If we do not do all kinds of work, easy and hard, skilled and unskilled, if we become merely landlords, then this will not be our homeland. "
Quoted by Shabtai Teveth, Ben-Gurion and the Palestinian Arabs: From Peace to War , Oxford Univ. Press, 1985, p. 140.
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