Quotation from David Ben Gurion “The more we emphasize the terrible distress of the Jewish masses …  So be silent” — June 1938

Commenting before the executive of the Jewish Agency on his wishes for the Jewish Rescue Conference that was about to open in Evian.

Author : Thematic :
" I do « not know if the conference will open the gates of other countries. . . . But I am afraid [ it ] might cause tremendous harm to Eretz Yisrael and Zionism. . . . Our main task is to reduce the harm, the danger and the disaster . . . and the more we emphasize the terrible distress of the Jewish masses in Germany, Poland and Rumania, the more damage we shall cause [to Eretz Israel and Zionism] »... « So be silent.» "

Quoted by Dan Kurzman Ben-Gurion: Prophet of Fire , Simon and Shuster, 1983. Lien 
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