David Ben-Gurion Quote

Everybody sees a difficulty in the question of relations between Arabs and Jews. But not everybody sees that there is no solution to this question. No solution! There is a gulf, and nothing can bridge it… We, as a nation, want this country to be ours; the Arabs, as a nation, want this country to be theirs.


Written statement (June 1919), as quoted in Time magazine (24 July 2006)


Everybody sees a difficulty in the question of relations between Arabs and Jews. But not everybody sees that there is no solution to this question....

Everybody sees a difficulty in the question of relations between Arabs and Jews. But not everybody sees that there is no solution to this question....

Everybody sees a difficulty in the question of relations between Arabs and Jews. But not everybody sees that there is no solution to this question....

Everybody sees a difficulty in the question of relations between Arabs and Jews. But not everybody sees that there is no solution to this question....