““We make ourselves out to be innocent victims of attack. It’s true that in August the attackers were Arabs. Since they have no army, they cannot observe the rules of the game. They availed themselves of all the barbaric means typical of an anticolonialist rebellion. But we need to look at the deepest sources of the uprising. We have spent twelve years in Palestine without having even once asked the Arabs’ consent, without conducting any sort of discussion with the people living in this land. We have trusted solely to British power. We have set ourselves goals that must inevitably lead to conflict. (Lavsky 1990, 204)””
![“Those who today murdered our people in an ambush not only plotted to murder some Jews but intended to provoke us... The Arabs stand to gain from such a development. They want the country to be in a state of perpetual pogrom… Any further bloodshed [by the Jews] will only bring political advantage…” quote by David Ben-Gurion](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/13f/david-ben-gurion-9178_advantage_those-who-today-murdered-our-people-in-a_3041209.jpg)
![“...British appeasement of the Palestinian Arabs led directly to the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Jews [in the Holocaust] who might otherwise have found refuge in Palestine.” quote by Sol Stern](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/d60/sol-stern-41610_death_british-appeasement-of-the-palestinian-a_362205.jpg)
