The Arabs of the land of Israel [ Palestinians] have only one functionleft to them -- to run away.

Let us not ignore the truth among ourselves ... politically we are the aggressors and they defend themselves... The country is theirs, because they inhabit it, whereas we want to come here and settle down, and in their view we want to take away from them their country.

We regard it as our duty to declare that Jewish Jerusalem is an organic and inseparable part of the State of Israel, as it is an inseparable part of the history of Israel, of the faith of Israel.

We do not wish and do not need to expel Arabs and take their places.

We must assist the British in the war as if there were no White Paper and we must resist the White Paper as if there were no war.

Which are you first, a Jew or an American? A Jew.

Not the absorption capacity of the land, but the creative ability of a people, is the true yardstick with which we can measure the immigration potentialities of the land.