Moshe Sharett Quotes

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• So we need people who will remain steadfast in any hardship and who have a high degree of resistance.
• I have learned that the state of Israel cannot be ruled in our generation without deceit and adventurism.
• We are very anxious to bring the Jews of Morocco over and we are doing all we can to achieve this. But we cannot count…
• I saw clearly how those who saved the state so heroically and courageously in the War of Independence would be capable of bringing a catastrophe…
• Curious people who have become accustomed to think that one cannot sustain the moral of the army without giving it the freedom to shed blood…
• Arabs respect only the language of force.
• An there is always the question: is it really proven that retaliatory actions solve the security problem?.
• Fear is the main factor in Arab politics... There is no Arab who is not harmed by Jews' entry into Palestine.
• When the Jewish state is established - it is very possible that the result will be transfer of Arabs.
• Once the return tide starts, it will be impossible to stem it, and it will prove our undoing.
• By the reduction of the Arabs on the one hand and Jewish immigration in the transition period on the other, we will ensure an absolute…
• The opportunities which the present position open up for a lasting and radical solution of the most vexing problem of the Jewish state are so…
• A reprisal of this magnitude... has never been carried out before. I paced back and forth in my room perplexed and completely depressed, feeling helpless.
• We have forgotten that we have not come to an empty land to inherit it, but we have come to conquer a country from people…
• As for the long-term future: I am prepared to see in this a vision, not a mystical way but in a realistic way, of a…
• As for now, we must not forget who would have to exchange the land? those villages which live more than others on irrigation, on orange…
• As for the future, we are equally determined to explore all possibilities of getting rid, once and for all, of the huge Arab minority which…
• Even of if a certain backlash is unavoidable, we must make the most of the momentous chance with which history has presented us so swiftly…
• I imagine that the intention is to get rid of them. The interests of security demand that we get rid of them.
• I explained that we would like to adjust our position on the Syrian question to theirs, as, in our view, they are the decisive factor…

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