Quotation from Berl Katznelson “Arabs will get equal rights ... only (if) a small minority of Arabs will remain” — June 12 1938
One of Mapai's top leaders comments on what would happen if the Peel Partition Plan is implemented.
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- Katznelson, Berl (1887-1944) ( 6 quotations )
- Jewish state = negligible Palestinian minority ( 37 quotations )
- Demographic dread ( 20 quotations )
" There is the question of how the army, the police, and the civil service will function and how a state can be run if part of its population is disloyal .....[and the Palestinian Arabs will get equal rights as Jews if] ... only a small minority of Arabs will remain in the country. "
Protocol of the Jewish Agency meeting of June 9 1938, vol. 28, n°53, CZA, quoted by Nur Masalha, Expulsion of the Palestinians , Institute for Palestine Studies, 1992, p. 115.
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