Moshe Sharett Quotes
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I have learned that the state of Israel cannot be ruled in our generation without deceit and adventurism.
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Once the return tide starts, it will be impossible to stem it, and it will prove our undoing.
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When the Jewish state is established - it is very possible that the result will be transfer of Arabs.
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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.
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So we need people who will remain steadfast in any hardship and who have a high degree of resistance.
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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 Hebrew majority in a parliamentary regime.
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We don't know what may yet happen to us, what military and political defeats we may yet have to face.
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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 upon it if they are given the chance in normal times.
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Our role in Israel is a pioneering one, and we need people with certain strength of fiber.
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An there is always the question: is it really proven that retaliatory actions solve the security problem?.
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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 far-reaching as to take one's breath away.
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Fear is the main factor in Arab politics... There is no Arab who is not harmed by Jews' entry into Palestine.
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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 from time to time.
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The state of Israel must, from time to time, prove clearly that it is strong, and able and willing to use force, in a devastating and highly effective way. If it does not prove this, it will be swallowed up, and perhaps wiped off the face of the earth.