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.
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- Ben Gurion, David (1886-1973) ( 94 quotations )
- The fate of the Jews of Europe is not our problem ( 24 quotations )
" 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.» "
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