Tom Segev 2018, p.26. #quote in #pt pic.twitter.com/vlcaugPr2N

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“Traveling thorough Palestine at the end of the 1880s, Ahad Ha’am wrote […] that the Jewish farmers treated their Arab tenants just as they treated their farm animals. “They do not think of the fellahin [peasants] as human,” a resident of Jaffa, Israel Rokach wrote[.]” #quote 77

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“One doesn’t receive a country, one conquers it,” [Ben-Gurion] declared a few weeks after the outbreak of the Grrat War. “We will conquer Palestine. T developing it,” he wrote.” #quote Segev 116.

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“In later years, [Ben-Gurion] would compare the conquest of the American West with the conquest of Palestine.” #quote Segev 121.

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“Ben-Gurion knew [Weizmann], knew that he was working on the cause in London. Furthermore, the phrase “national home” was not foreign to him – it was the term the Zionist movement used to evade its real goal, a Jewish state.” #quote Segev 133.

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“Jabotinsky was not a fascist any more than Ben-Gurion was a Marxist. Ben-Gurion was no less nationalist or militarist than Jabotinsky. The right-left divide in the Zionist movement was largely a matter of style and modes of operation, not of fundamental values.” #quote Segev 244

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“The hope of emptying Palestine of its Arab inhabitants had been a part of Zionist discourse from its first days. It’s earliest incarnation appears in Herzl’s diary.” #quote Segev 1/2

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“Like Herzl, Ben-Gurion believed that the transfer of the natives out of the territory of the Jewish state needed to be done quietly; as such, he denied, over and over again, that it was one of Zionism’s goals.” #quote Segev 262.

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Ben-Gurion: “I favor forced transfer. I do not see it as something immoral, but forced transfer is possible only by England and not by the Jews.” #quote Segev 265.

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The author of the memorandum stressed that it was most important to save young people, “because they constitute the best material for the community in Palestine,” especially those who had undergone pioneer training. That had been always Ben-Gurion’s position[.] #quote 2/2 p. 334.

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The shock, horror, and sense of guilt that afflicted the Christian world after the Holocaust produced sympathy for the Jewish people as a whole and the Zionist movement in particular. This helped further the movement’s diplomatic and public relations campaign[.] #quote Segev 381

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“The Jews represented Europe in the Middle East, [Ben-Gurion] assured [British foreign minister] Bevin, and they would always remain the only European nation in the region.” #quote Segev 382.

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“[Ben-Gurion] told the leaders of the Haganah: […] We need to pursue a tactic of offensive defense. To deal a decisive blow with each onslaught, destroying the place or driving out the inhabitants and capturing the place.” #quote Segev 399.

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“In many cases there was no need to issue an e policy order to expel Arabs – the spirit of the message conveyed by the commander in chief was sufficient.” #quote Segev 406.

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[Ben-Gurion] told of the massive looting that was an outbreak of the Jewish community’s most primitive instincts. Some Hebrew University faculty members entered the abandoned homes of Arab intellectuals, took their books, and deposited them in the National Library. #quote 434.

— Asem Khalil (@AsemKhalil) January 19, 2022

Ben-Gurion wrote in his diary: “A shameful atrocity: Battalion 22 in Be’er-Sheva apprehended an Arab man and woman. They killed the man and they (twenty-two men) discussed what to do with the woman. Check this out! #quote Segev 435. pic.twitter.com/jEvAGypS0j

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[Ben-Gurion] was entirely at peace with the fact that the Arabs had been displaced[.] this was the price of Jewish Independence in the Land of Israel, “a captured land,” as he put it. “War is war,” he added.” #quote Segev 437.

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"The first several tens of thousands to arrive, both Europeans and Asians, were settled in homes that had emptied of their Arab residents. This completed a population transfer." #Quote Segev 451.

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“Every manifestation of anti- Semitism could […] be a “boost,” as [Ben-Gurion] liked to say. That was a fundamental idea of Herzl’s: “The anti-semites will be our steadfast friends,” he wrote.” #quote Segev 655.

— Asem Khalil (@AsemKhalil) January 20, 2022