Quotation from Maurice Samuel “We needed the maximum number of Jews, in shambles, everywhere and everywhere” — 1953

" There was a confused filling up by immigrants, which was neither Zionism nor rescue ... An artificially created panic took tens of thousands of Jews who did not need to come at that time. and who, without a strong stimulant or without cajolery, would not have come. We did the impossible to stimulate and further stimulate immigration. [...] We needed as many Jews as possible in the shortest possible time to discourage the Arabs from trying to get their revenge. We needed the maximum number of Jews, in shambles, everywhere and everywhere, in good shape or not, convinced or simply cajoled because it was necessary to fill without delay the places emptied by the thousands of Arabs who had abandoned their homes. [Google translation] "