Quotation from David Ben Gurion “Immigration at the rate of 60,000 a year means a Jewish state in all of Palestine” — June 1937

In a letter to Moshe Sharett, quoted twice by Ben Gurion's biographer, in slightly different forms.

Author :

Ben Gurion, David (1886-1973) ( 94 quotations )

Thematics :

Palestinian awareness of the goal of Zionism ( 13 quotations )
... for a landless people... ( 8 quotations )
Jewish state = negligible Palestinian minority ( 37 quotations )

" Were I an Arab, and Arab with nationalist political consciousness . . . I would rise up even more vigorously, bitterly, and desperately against an immigration liable in the future to hand the country and all of its Arab inhabitants over to Jewish rule. What Arab cannot do his math and understand that immigration at the rate of 60,000 a year means a Jewish state in all of Palestine. "

Quoed by Shabtai Teveth, Ben Gourion, the burning Ground, 1886-1948 , Houghton Mifflin School, 1987, p. 544. Again in John Marsheimer et Stephen Walt, The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy , Farrar Straus and Giroux, 2008, p. 98

Slightly different quote in Shabtai Teveth, Ben Gourion and the Palestinian Arabs. From peace to war , Oxford Univ.Press, 1985, pp. 171-172.

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