Quotations

• Quotation from David Ben Gurion “I support compulsory transfer. I don't see anything immoral in it” — June 12 1938
  In a joint meeting of the Jewish Agency and the Committee for Zionist Action.
• Quotation from Menahem Ussishkin “No hope that this new Jewish State will survive ... if the Arabs are as numerous” — June 12 1938
  Director of the Jewish Agency, at a meeting of the Jewish Agency Executive on the recommendation of the Peel Commission.
• Quotation from Menahem Ussishkin “To take a part of the Arabs and transfer and settle them … is as moral as can be” — June 12 1938
  Head of the Executive Committee of the World Zionist Organization, at a meeting of the Jewish Agency's executive committee, advocates that the British should proceed with the expulsion of 60,000 Palestinian families.
• Quotation from Moshe Sharett “We will ensure an absolute Hebrew majority in a parliamentary regime” — June 9 1938
  During an executive meeting of the Jewish Agency, stresses the importance of a reduction in the number of Palestinians during a period of transition to absolute Jewish rule.
• Quotation from David Ben Gurion “The more we emphasize the terrible distress of the Jewish masses …  So be silent” — June 1938
  Commenting before the executive of the Jewish Agency on his wishes for the Jewish Rescue Conference that was about to open in Evian.
• Quotation from Stephen Wise “No Jewish organisation would … sponsor a bill which would ...alter the immigration laws” — Apr. 1938
  Rabbi, leader of the American Jewish Congress and main spokesman for Zionism in the USA, in a letter addressed to elected Democrats in the aftermath of the Anchluss.
• Quotation from Albert Einstein “I should much rather see agreement with the Arabs ... than the creation of a Jewish state” — 1938
  In a speech to the National Labor Committee for Palestine in New York City.
• Quotation from David Ben Gurion “We shall abolish partition and expand to the whole of Palestine” — 1938
  In a note to the Jewish Agency.
• Quotation from David Ben Gurion “Politically we are the aggressors and they defend themselves” — 1938
  Speech in 1938.
• Quotation from Yosef Weitz “Advocate land presently held and cultivated by the Arabs and thus to release it for Jewish inhabitants” — Nov. 22 1937
  KKL/JNF leader and Chair of the Transfer Committee, explaining that.
• Quotation from Alfred Bonné “It is essentiel not to give up easily the proposal of ‘compulsion’” — Nov. 21 1937
  Director of an Institute at the Jewish National Fund (KKL/JNF), at a meeting of the "Transfer Committee" after July 1937.
• Quotation from David Ben Gurion “If we are compelled to use force – our force will enable us to do so. ” — Oct. 5 1937
  Letter to his son Amos (This translation considers that the words scratched out of the manuscript were indeed scratched out by Ben Gurion).
• Quotation from David Ben Gurion “We must expel Arabs and take their place” — Oct. 5 1937
  Letter to his son Amos.
• Quotation from Joachim Prinz “Solution of the Jewish question? It was our Zionist dream!” — Sep. 17 1937
  An executive member of the German Zionist Federation, he left Germany for the USA in 1937 and took on the highest responsibilities in the world Zionist organizations.
• Quotation from Yosef Baratz “Isn’t it evacuation which has been continuing our work in the country for the last 40-50 years?” — Aug. 8 1937
  Leader of the Mapaï party, criticizing the reservations of the delegates of Hachomer Hatza'ir to the "transfer" of Palestinians.
• Quotation from David Ben Gurion “The transfer of population is what makes possible a comprehensive settlement program” — Aug. 7 1937
  During a debate in the Zionist Assembly during the Peel Commission debates (English text completed with partial citations).
• Quotation from Berl Katznelson “A remote neighbour is better than a close enemy” — Aug. 1937
  Leader in mainstream Zionism, in a congress of Mapam and supporters held in Zurich from 29 July to 7 August 1937.
• Quotation from Shlomo Lavi “Transfer of Arabs out of the country ...is one of the most just, moral and correct things” — Aug. 1937
  Labour leader, delegate to the 12th, 17th, 18th, 19th and 20th Zionist Congresses, then member of the Knesset, at the 20th Congress.
• Quotation from Judah Magnes “With partition a new Balkan is made” — Jul. 18 1937
  President of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and advocate for a binational state, in the aftermath of the British proposal for partitioning.
• Quotation from David Ben Gurion “The compulsory transfer of the Arabs from the valleys of the Jewish state could give us” — Jul. 12 1937
  Expressing its wish to take over the Peel Commission's proposal for partition (2 incomplete versions).
• Quotation from Chaim Weizmann “Under Solomon it became an empire. Who knows ? C’est le premier pas qui coûte” — Jul. 7 1937
  In a letter to Arthur Balfour's niece, Amy Paterson.
• Quotation from Moshe Sharett “The memorandum that we had submitted ...(for the) transfer of the Arabs … to Transjordan” — June 12 1937
  Relating a dinner with the American Consul General in Jerusalem George Wadsworth.
• Quotation from David Ben Gurion “Immigration at the rate of 60,000 a year means a Jewish state in all of Palestine” — June 1937
  In a letter to Moshe Sharett, quoted twice by Ben Gurion's biographer, in slightly different forms.
• Quotation from Winston Churchill “I do not admit that the dog in the manger has the final right to the manger” — Mar. 12 1937
  In a testimony before the Peel Commission on Palestine, reveals the racist and "white supremacist" basis of his support for the Zionist project (the testimony was only published in 1982).
• Quotation from David Ben Gurion “But I say on behalf of the Jews that the Bible is our Mandate” — Jan. 7 1937
  Before the Peel Royal Commission.
• Quotation from Chaim Weizmann “The Jews would be fools not to accept it” — Jan. 1937
  Chaïm Weizmann, then president of the World Zionist Organization, enthusiastically approves the first partition plan for Palestine proposed by the British.
• Quotation from George Mansour “The Histadrut never employed a single Arab if it could help it” — 1937
  Founder of the Arab Workers Society in 1934, George Mansour testified before the Peel Commission in 1937 and published "The Arab Worker under the Palestine Mandate" to raise awareness among the British public.
• Quotation from Chaim Weizmann “The old ones will pass. They will bear their fate or they will not. They are dust” — 1937
  Before the 20th Zionist Congress of 1937, referring to his testimony before the Peel Commission.
• Quotation from Alfred Rosenberg “Zionism must be actively supported” — 1937
  Theorist of Nazism.
• Quotation from Commission britannique Peel “The teaching is inspired by a purely Jewish rather than Palestinian objective” — 1937
  In its report, it states the following about Jewish education in the Yishuv.
• Quotation from David Ben Gurion “The acceptance of partition does not commit us to renounce Transjordan” — 1937
  Writing in support of the Peel Commission's partition project during a speech at a Labour Party meeting.
• Quotation from David Ben Gurion “Among ourselves there can be no debate about the integrity of the Land of Israel” — 1937
  In a commentary on the Peel Commission's proposal, reported by Moshe Dayan, recalls that the goal of Zionism is the total colonization of Palestine.
• Quotation from David Ben Gurion “Why is it forbidden to transfer an Arab from the Hebron area to Transjordan” — Nov. 1 1936
  During a meeting preceding the Peel Commission, proposing a transfer of Palestinians to the Transjordan (considered as part of Israel's Lands).
• Quotation from David Ben Gurion “We do not suggest that we announce now our final aim which is far reaching” — Oct. 13 1936
  In his diary (Zichronot), about a speech held on October 13th.
• Quotation from David Ben Gurion “When Jalla falls into hell I will not be among the mourners” — Jul. 11 1936
  In his diary. Has no anger against the Palestinians, only cold considerations.
• Quotation from David Ben Gurion “A comprehensive agreement is undoubtedly out of the question now” — June 9 1936
  In a letter to the executive of the Jewish Agency.
• Quotation from David Ben Gurion “We don't need agreement with the Arabs in order to keep the peace in Palestine” — June 9 1936
  In a letter to the executive of the Jewish Agency, explains its concept of "peace", a truce in view of a new war.
• Quotation from Chaim Weizmann “There are some hundred thousand negroes and for those there is no value” — May 20 1936
  President of the Zionist Executive, questioned by Arthur Ruppin on the circumstances of the Balfour Declaration of 1917.
• Quotation from David Ben Gurion “We and they want the same thing. We both want Palestine” — May 19 1936
  Shortly after the beginning of the great Palestinian revolt, during a meeting of the Mapaï party, clearly expressing the stakes of colonization a homeland "for them" or "for us".
• Quotation from Menahem Ussishkin “I will make sure that we will be the landlords of this land” — May 19 1936
  Delegate of Moscow to the first Zionist Congress, President of the KKL/JNF (Jewish National Fund).
• Quotation from David Ben Gurion “We must have 100% Hebrew settlement, a 100% Hebrew farm, and 100% Hebrew port” — May 5 1936
  Explains the goal of "100% apartheid" in a meeting of the National Council of Yishuv.
• Quotation from Emil Ludwig “Hitler will be forgotten in a few years, he will have a beautiful monument in Palestine” — Apr. 1936
  Biographer of Jewish origin, known in the 1920s, now a Zionist, interviewed in the USA by a Zionist friend.
• Quotation from David Ben Gurion “To discuss ...the Jews in Germany only from the aspect of their immigration to Palestine” — Dec. 31 1935
  Describing the task of the Jewish Agency's commission in charge of German Jewish problems.
• Quotation from David Ben Gurion “Without Hebrew labor, there will be no [Jewish] homeland” — Dec. 10 1935
  Letter to Eichenberg.
• Quotation from Reinhardt Heydrich “The government is in complete agreement with the great spiritual movement … the so-called Zionism” — Sep. 26 1935
  The infamous future "protector" of Bohemia, expressing his perfect agreement in principle with Zionism.
• Quotation from Collectif “If the Jews had a state ... the Jewish question could already be considered solved” — Sep. 15 1935
  In the introduction, published in 1939, to the so-called "Nuremberg" racist laws of 1935.
• Quotation from Vicco Von Bülow-Schwante “Zionism does not contradict the National Socialist goal” — Sep. 1935
  Head of the Sonderreferat Deutchland of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, in charge of "Jewish questions", he explains, in a letter to the minister of the Interior.
• Quotation from David Ben Gurion “Zionism ... cannot initiate an irresponsible battle against Hitler” — Aug. 27 1935
  Writing about the boycott of Nazi Germany in the Davar daily newspaper.
• Quotation from Mordechai Ben Hillel Ha Cohen “There is not in Palestine any other part that can compete with us culturally” — Aug. 8 1935
  Zionist journalist, co-founder of Tel Aviv, expressing his contempt for the Palestinians.
• Quotation from Benito Mussolini “The person who really understands that is your fascist, Jabotinsky.” — Aug. 1935
  In a meeting with David Prato, future Chief Rabbi of Rome, the fascist dictator Mussolini expressed his sympathy for the most "radical" Zionism.