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Is it really asking too much for a people to want to decide its own fate; to demand that it alone shall choose flow and by whom it shall be governed; that its young people if they rise against what they believe is wrong shall not be deported from their home and country?

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Pessimism is a luxury that a Jew can never allow himself.

We don’t thrive on military acts. We do them because we have to, and thank God we are efficient.

We hate war. We do not rejoice in victories. We rejoice when a new kind of cotton is grown, and when strawberries bloom in Israel.

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One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present.

I am a Palestinian, from 1921 to 1948, I carried a Palestinian passport.

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