Moshe Sharett Quotes

• When the Jewish state is established – it is very possible that the result will be transfer of Arabs.

  Moshe Sharett

• What is our vision on this earth – war to the end of all generations and life by the sword?

  Moshe Sharett

• 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.

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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

• 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.

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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.

  Moshe Sharett

• 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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• So we need people who will remain steadfast in any hardship and who have a high degree of resistance.

  Moshe Sharett

• Our role in Israel is a pioneering one, and we need people with certain strength of fiber.

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• Once the return tide starts, it will be impossible to stem it, and it will prove our undoing.

  Moshe Sharett

• 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.

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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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• I imagine that the intention is to get rid of them. The interests of security demand that we get rid of them.

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• I have learned that the state of Israel cannot be ruled in our generation without deceit and adventurism. These are historical facts that cannot be altered.

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• I explained that we would like to adjust our position on the Syrian question to theirs, as, in our view, they are the decisive factor in our relations with our neighbors, and Syria is unimportant.

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• I am against preventive war because it means measures by the UN against us.

  Moshe Sharett

• I am against intervention by a foreign power against us.

  Moshe Sharett

• 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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• Even of if a certain backlash is unavoidable, we must make the most of the momentous chance with which history has presented us so swiftly and so unexpectedly.

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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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Birth:	16th October, 1894
Death:	7th July, 1965
Nationality:	Israeli
Profession:	Prime Minister

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