Comments by "Ralph Bernhard" (@ralphbernhard1757) on "What Ignited The Ongoing Palestine vs Israel Conflict | Promises & Betrayals | Timeline" video.

  1. If somebody came from outside to instate themselves on the lands you were born on, would you simply roll over and surrender? Moshe Sharett, the first Israeli foreign minister, wrote in 1914: "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 inhabiting it, that governs it by the virtue of its language and savage culture ..... Recently there has been appearing in our newspapers the clarification about "the mutual misunderstanding" between us and the Arabs, about "common interests" [and] about "the possibility of unity and peace between two fraternal peoples." ..... [But] we must not allow ourselves to be deluded by such illusive hopes ..... for if we ceases to look upon our land, the Land of Israel, as ours alone and we allow a partner into our estate- all content and meaning will be lost to our enterprise. (Righteous Victims, p. 91) In April 28, 1930 Menachem Ussishkin stated in an address to journalists in Jerusalem: "We must continually raise the demand that our land be returned to our possession .... If there are other inhabitants there, they must be transferred to some other place. We must take over the land. We have a great and NOBLER ideal than preserving several hundred thousands of [Palestinian] Arabs fellahin [peasants]." (Righteous Victims, p. 141)
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