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...prove their claim, Walt and Mearsheimer quote Israel’s founding prime minister, David Ben-Gurion, as having said at a meeting in the late 1930s: “After the formation of a large army in the wake of the establishment of the state, we shall abolish partition and expand to the whole of Palestine...
Dershowitz says that quote was taken out of context. He cites the work of former Harvard visiting professor Efraim Karsh, who reprinted a transcript of a July 1938 Jewish Agency meeting at which Ben-Gurion made the remark that Walt and Mearsheimer quote...
...Ben-Gurion makes clear, according to the transcript, that he does not support the forcible transfer of Arabs, saying that such population movements should occur only “through mutual understanding and Jewish-Arab agreement...
...Dershowitz said that the article used “quotes from [Israel’s first prime minister] David Ben-Gurion and [former president of the World Jewish Congress] Nahum Goldmann that are found repeatedly on hate sites,” and that in asserting that the Jewish state was founded on “blood kinship,” the authors were mistakenly conflating the right of Jews to immigrate to Israel with citizenship...
...nature and scope; the general election rivaled, in its ferocity and politically unsettling outcome, the Israeli political epic of 1977. In 1977, the Israeli Labour party lost the general elections to the Likud for the first time in the history of the state of Israel. The disciples of David Ben-Gurion, the founding father of the Jewish State, lost to the descendants of Vladimir Jabotinsky, the Zionist revisionist who articulated the Iron Wall theory and sought to include Transjordan in the borders of the future Israeli state. Believing that only force and unilateral action could defeat Arab nationalists, Jabotinsky wrote...