Quotation from David Ben Gurion “The law is whatever people determine it to be” — 1948
Replying to Pinhas Rosen on the issue of borders on the eve of independence. Israel has still not declared borders...
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- Ben Gurion, David (1886-1973) ( 97 quotations )
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" Rosen: “There’s the question of the borders, and it cannot be ignored.”
Ben-Gurion: “Anything is possible. If we decide here that there’s to be no mention of borders, then we won’t mention them. Nothing is a priori.”
Rosen: “It’s not a priori, but it is a legal issue.
Ben-Gurion: “The law is whatever people determine it to be.” "
Amnon Kapeliouk, le Monde Diplomatique, dec. 1986.
Also Tom Segev, 1949, The First Israelis
, Owl Books, 1998, p. Xviii
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