Facts about Moshe Sharett

Occup.	Statesman
From	Israel
Born	October 15, 1894
Died	July 7, 1965
Aged	70 years

Summary

Moshe Sharett was a famous Statesman from Israel, who lived between October 15, 1894 and July 7, 1965. He/she became 70 years old.

Zodiac:

He/she is born under the zodiac libra, who is known for Balance, Justice, Truth, Beauty, Perfection. Our collection contains 27 quotes who is written / told by Moshe.

27 Famous quotes by Moshe Sharett

"We have forgotten that we have not come to an empty land to inherit it, but we have come to conquer a country from people inhabiting it, that governs it by the virtue of its language and savage culture"

Moshe Sharett

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

Moshe Sharett

"Israel would not do that, both because we cannot afford to be accused by the world of aggression and because we cannot, for security and social reasons, absorb in our midst a substantial Arab population"

Moshe Sharett

"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"

Moshe Sharett

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

Moshe Sharett

"Our role in Israel is a pioneering one, and we need people with certain strength of fiber"

Moshe Sharett

"I am against intervention by a foreign power against us"

Moshe Sharett

"I saw clearly how those who saved the state so heroically and courageously in the War of Independence would be capable of bringing a catastrophe upon it if they are given the chance in normal times"

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"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"

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"Curious people who have become accustomed to think that one cannot sustain the moral of the army without giving it the freedom to shed blood from time to time"

Moshe Sharett

"An there is always the question: is it really proven that retaliatory actions solve the security problem?"

Moshe Sharett

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

Moshe Sharett

"Even of if a certain backlash is unavoidable, we must make the most of the momentous chance with which history has presented us so swiftly and so unexpectedly"

Moshe Sharett

"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"

Moshe Sharett

"As for the future, we are equally determined to explore all possibilities of getting rid, once and for all, of the huge Arab minority which originally threatened us"

Moshe Sharett

"Arabs respect only the language of force"

Moshe Sharett

"The opportunities which the present position open up for a lasting and radical solution of the most vexing problem of the Jewish state are so far-reaching as to take one's breath away"

Moshe Sharett

"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"

Moshe Sharett

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

Moshe Sharett

"A reprisal of this magnitude... has never been carried out before. I paced back and forth in my room perplexed and completely depressed, feeling helpless"

Moshe Sharett

"As for now, we must not forget who would have to exchange the land? those villages which live more than others on irrigation, on orange and fruit plantations, in houses built near water wells and pumping stations, on livestock and property and easy access to markets"

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

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"The state of Israel must, from time to time, prove clearly that it is strong, and able and willing to use force, in a devastating and highly effective way. If it does not prove this, it will be swallowed up, and perhaps wiped off the face of the earth"

Moshe Sharett

"We don't know what may yet happen to us, what military and political defeats we may yet have to face"

Moshe Sharett

"We are very anxious to bring the Jews of Morocco over and we are doing all we can to achieve this. But we cannot count on the Jews of Morocco alone to build the country, because they have not been educated for this"

Moshe Sharett

"I imagine that the intention is to get rid of them. The interests of security demand that we get rid of them"

Moshe Sharett

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

Moshe Sharett