Quotation from Judah Magnes “With partition a new Balkan is made” — Jul. 18 1937

President of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and advocate for a binational state, in the aftermath of the British proposal for partitioning.

Author : Thematics :
" With the permission of the Arabs we will be able to receive hundreds of thousands of persecuted Jews in Arab lands [...] Without the permission of the Arabs even the fourhundred thousand [Jews] that now are in Palestine will remain in danger, in spite of the temporary protection of British bayonets. With partition a new Balkan is made [..] "

The New York Times, July 18, 1937.

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