[news] What Does Israel Want?

[Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed]

_Why should the Arabs make peace? If I were an Arab leader I would never make terms with Israel. That is natural. We have taken their country. Sure, God promised it to me, but what does it matter to them? Our God is not theirs. We come from Israel, it is true, but two thousand years ago, and what is it to them? There have been anti-Semitism, the Nazis, Hitler, and Auschwitz but was that their fault? They only see one thing: we have come here and stolen their country._

--Israeli Prime Minister **David Ben-Gurion**, 1956

  


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