Daily Inspiration Quote by Moshe Sharett

There is a cold efficiency in Sharett's phrasing that does more than justify a policy; it normalizes an outcome. "I imagine" is the first tell. It pretends to be speculative, even reluctant, as if the speaker is merely reading the room. But the next sentence snaps the mask into place: "The interests of security demand..". What began as conjecture becomes inevitability. Responsibility dissolves into necessity.

The key verb, "get rid of them", is deliberately blunt and oddly vague. It refuses detail while still conveying finality. That combination is politically useful: euphemism would invite moral scrutiny, specificity would invite accountability. Instead, the line sits in a gray zone where the audience can fill in the method - expulsion, removal, elimination - without the speaker having to name it.

As a statesman in Israel's early, conflict-defined years, Sharett operated in a world where "security" functioned as the master argument: the one word that could compress fear, strategy, demographics, and revenge into something that sounded neutral. The subtext is that "they" are not treated as individual people with rights or histories but as a security problem, a category to be managed. Once framed that way, dispossession becomes not a choice but an administrative task.

Rhetorically, it's powerful because it offers psychological relief: if security "demands" it, then no one is really choosing. That's how democracies, not just dictatorships, talk themselves into harshness.