Quotation from David Ben Gurion “The compulsory transfer of the Arabs from the valleys of the Jewish state could give us” — Jul. 12 1937

Expressing its wish to take over the Peel Commission's proposal for partition (2 incomplete versions).

Author : Thematics :
" The compulsory transfer of the Arabs from the valleys of the proposed Jewish state could give us something which we have never had, even when we stood on our own during the days of the First and Second Temples: [a Galilee almost free of non-Jews]. ... We are being given an opportunity which we never dared to dream of in our wildest imagination. This is more than a state, government, and sovereignty—this is a national consolidation in a free homeland. ... if because of our weakness, neglect or negligence, the thing is not done, then we will have lost a chance which we never had before, and may never have again. "

David Ben-Gurion, Zichronot, vol.4, p.297-299, July 12, 1937. Quoted in Shabtai Teveth, Ben-Gurion and the Palestinian Arabs , Oxford Univ. Press, 1985; pp 180-182.

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