Quotation from Arthur Lourie “Convince the world that not all of these formerly lived in Israeli territory” — 1950
Personal secretary of Chaim Weizmann who became Consul General in New York, in a letter to Walter Eitan, Israeli Foreign Ministry, proposes to minimize the number of refugees.
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- Lourie, Arthur (1903-1978) ( 1 quotation )
- Above all, no return of the Palestinians ( 18 quotations )
" ...if people become accustomed to the large figure and we are actually obliged to accept the return of the refugees, we may find it difficult, when faced with hordes of claimants, to convince the world that not all of these formerly lived in Israeli territory. It would, in any event, seem desirable to minimize the numbers...than otherwise. "
(ISA FM 2564/22). Morris, Benny, The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem 1947-49 , Cambridge Univ. Press, 1989, p. 297.
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