Top 27 Quotes by Moshe Sharett

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.

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

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

As for the long-term future: I am prepared to see in this a vision, not a mystical way but in a realistic way, of a population exchange on a much more important scale and including larger territories.

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

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

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.

Fear is the main factor in Arab politics... There is no Arab who is not harmed by Jews' entry into Palestine.

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

By the reduction of the Arabs on the one hand and Jewish immigration in the transition period on the other, we will ensure an absolute Hebrew majority in a parliamentary regime.