Listen, the Palestinians are always coming here and saying to me, 'You expelled the French and the Americans. How do we expel the Jews?' I tell them that the French went back to France and the Americans to America. But the Jews have nowhere to go. You will not expel them.
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Attributed by Haviv Rettig Gur of The Times of Israel, saying he heard it from deputy national security adviser Eran Lerman in 2021. Lerman is claimed to have heard it from retired IDF Major General Yossi Ben Hanan, who is claimed heard it from Giap in a conversation in the 1990s.