Quotation from Chaim Weizmann “I am certain that the world will judge the Jewish State by what it will do with the Arabs” — Nov. 28 1947
On November 26, 1947, in New York, on the occasion of his 73rd birthday, Weizmann reassured the good consciences three days before the vote of the UN General Assembly. This did not prevent him from becoming the first president of Israel in the aftermath of the ethnic cleansing (Nakba) of 1948.
" “The life-blood of a society is justice. There must not be one law for the Jew and another for the Arabs....In saying this, I do not assume that there are tendencies toward inequality or discrimination. It is merely a timely warning which is particularly necessary because we shall have a very large Arab minority. I am certain that the world will judge the Jewish State by what it will do with the Arabs, just as the Jewish people at large will be judged by what we do or fail to do in this state where we have been given such a wonderful opportunity after thousands of years of wandering and suffering." "
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