Let us not ignore the truth among ourselves … politically we are the aggressors and they defend themselves… The country is theirs, because they inhabit it, whereas we want to come here and settle down, and in their view we want to take away from them their country.
— David Ben-Gurion Modern

Founder of Israel

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Quoted by Nahum Goldmann in 'Le Paradoxe Juif'.

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Undated, published in 1978.

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