All Moshe Sharett Quotes
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.
Moshe Sharett
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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.
Moshe Sharett
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We are very anxious to bring the Jews of Morocco over and we are doing all we can to achieve this. But we cannot count on the Jews of Morocco alone to build the country, because they have not been educated for this.
Moshe Sharett
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Our role in Israel is a pioneering one, and we need people with certain strength of fiber.
Moshe Sharett
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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.
Moshe Sharett
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Israel would not do that, both because we cannot afford to be accused by the world of aggression and because we cannot, for security and social reasons, absorb in our midst a substantial Arab population.
Moshe Sharett
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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.
Moshe Sharett
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What is our vision on this earth - war to the end of all generations and life by the sword?
Moshe Sharett
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When the Jewish state is established - it is very possible that the result will be transfer of Arabs.
Moshe Sharett
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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.
Moshe Sharett
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I am against intervention by a foreign power against us.
Moshe Sharett
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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.
Moshe Sharett
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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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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.
Moshe Sharett
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