Time & Perspective Quote by Moshe Sharett

Cold administrative language doing hot political work: Sharett frames removal as “explore all possibilities,” a bureaucratic hedge that makes an extreme aim sound like prudent statecraft. The phrase “once and for all” carries the cadence of finality, the kind leaders reach for when they want policy to feel like destiny rather than choice. And “getting rid” is deliberately elastic. It can mean deportation, coerced transfer, legal disenfranchisement, demographic engineering, or military pressure; the vagueness is the point, because it keeps options open while normalizing the goal.

The subtext turns a population into a problem set. Calling Palestinian citizens an “Arab minority” isn’t neutral description; it’s a categorization that recasts people as a statistical threat. “Huge” is a demographic alarm bell, suggesting that numbers themselves constitute danger. “Originally threatened us” then retroactively justifies the contemplated action: the minority isn’t merely inconvenient in the present, it is cast as an inhering menace at the state’s founding, which converts political conflict into a quasi-natural condition.

As a statesman, Sharett’s intent is less rant than policy signaling. He’s speaking from within the early Israeli security-and-nation-building mindset where sovereignty was imagined as fragile, borders unsettled, and demography treated as strategy. The line’s power lies in how it fuses fear with managerial calm, inviting the listener to accept that “exploring possibilities” is responsible governance even when the underlying project is cleansing the polity of an unwanted people.