Quotation from David Ben Gurion “Hitler, more than he hurt the Jewish people … hurt the Jewish State” — 1964
Explaining that the genocide of the Jews of Europe was less serious than the reduction in the number of European immigrants to Israel.
Author :
- Ben Gurion, David (1886-1973) ( 94 quotations )
- The fate of the Jews of Europe is not our problem ( 24 quotations )
- Contempt for non-Ashkenaki Jews ( 18 quotations )
- Demographic dread ( 20 quotations )
" Hitler, more than he hurt the Jewish people, whom he knew and detested, hurt the Jewish State, whose coming he did not foresee. He destroyed the substance, the main and essential building force of the Jewish state. The state arose and did not find the nation which had waited for it. "
Ben Gurion Netzah Israel
, Ayanot, 1964, p. 23.
Quoted by Tom Segev 1949, The First Israelis
, The Free Press, 1986, p.157.
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