Quotation from David Ben Gurion “The acceptance of partition does not commit us to renounce Transjordan” — 1937
Writing in support of the Peel Commission's partition project during a speech at a Labour Party meeting.
Author :
- Ben Gurion, David (1886-1973) ( 97 quotations )
- "Land of Israel" or variable geometry "biblical lands ( 43 quotations )
- Colonization: never more than breaks ( 58 quotations )
" The acceptance of partition does not commit us to renounce Transjordan. One does not demand from anybody to give up his vision. We shall accept a state in the boundaries fixed today – but the boundaries of Zionist aspirations are the concerns of the Jewish people and no external factor will be able to limit them. "
Ben Gurion’s Memoirs, vol.4, p.151. Quoted by New Outlook (Tel Aviv), 1977, then by Chomsky, The Fateful Triangle
, Pluto Press, 1983.
Simha Flapan, The birth of Israel, Myths and realities
Croom Helm,1987, pp 52-53.
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