David Ben-Gurion
David Ben-Gurion
David Ben-Gurion, born David Grün; 16 October 1886, Płońsk, Poland – 1 December 1973, Tel Aviv, Israel) was the primary founder of the State of Israel and the first Prime Minister of Israel...
NationalityIsraeli
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth16 October 1886
CityPlonsk, Poland
CountryIsrael
hate cutting israel
We must use terror, assassination, intimidation, land confiscation, and the cutting of all social services to rid the Galilee of its Arab population.
eleven increase jewish jews million quite several state ten
There are eleven million Jews in the world. I don't say that all of them will come here, but I expect several million, and with natural increase I can quite imagine a Jewish state of ten million.
courage fear feared knowledge ought special
Courage is a special kind of knowledge: the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared.
believe
In Israel, in order to be a realist you must believe in miracles.
believe
Anyone who doesn't believe in miracles is not a realist.
land people creative
Not the absorption capacity of the land, but the creative ability of a people, is the true yardstick with which we can measure the immigration potentialities of the land.
enemy survival survivor
After eighty, there are no enemies, only survivors.
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Referring to Palestinian refugees: "We must do everything in our power to ensure that they never return.
change believe writing
Anyone who believes you can't change history has never tried to write his memoirs.
giving-up acceptance people
The acceptance of partition does not commit us to renounce Transjordan: one does not demand from anybody to give up his vision. We shall accept a state in the boundaries fixed today, but the boundaries of Zionist aspirations are the concern of the Jewish people and no external factor will be able to limit them.
land should circumstances
Under no circumstances must we touch land belonging to fellahs or worked by them. Only if a fellah leaves his place of settlement, should we offer to buy his land, at an appropriate price.
country israel people
Those who today murdered our people in an ambush not only plotted to murder some Jews but intended to provoke us... The Arabs stand to gain from such a development. They want the country to be in a state of perpetual pogrom.... Any further bloodshed [by the Jews] will only bring political advantage to the Arabs and harm us... Our strength is in the defense... and this strength will give us political victory if England and the world will know that we are defending ourselves rather than attacking.
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Which are you first, a Jew or an American? A Jew.
independent israel common
We offer peace and neighborliness to all the neighboring states and their peoples, and invite them to cooperate with the independent Hebrew nation for the common good of all.