Israel Establishment Quotes

We established Israel as a Jewish country. I want to provide an Israel that is a Jewish, Zionist country.

In 1863, in the middle of the Civil War, there was a census of Jerusalem of which there is a cable copy in the British Foreign Office. There were 15,000 residents. Of those, 8,000, the majority were Jewish. After the Jews were ejected from the city when their Kingdom fell, the slowly began returning. And in 1863 they had become the majority, not in 1963 or any other time after the establishment of Israel.

The Jewish people remember the dramatic vote in the U.N. Assembly on November 29, 1947, when representatives of the nations recognized our right to national revival in our historic homeland.

David Ben-Gurion established the Israeli intelligence community in June of 1948, just three weeks after the establishment of Israel and in the midst of war.

The Middle East is a land of great injustice. The Israelis can claim - or wish to, at least - that Lord Balfour's Declaration of 1917 promised Britain support for a Jewish homeland in Palestine, which didn't just mean the left-hand bit that became Israel.

It was no accident that just minutes after Israel became a nation, the United States... became the first nation in the world to recognize what was prophesized throughout the Old Testament about Israel returning after its absence.

Suppose a part of Britain or a part of America was taken away and given to the Jews as Israel. Do you think the Americans are going to sit quietly and say 'Welcome,' and all that? They won't.

We are dealing with treachery and threats, which accompanied the establishment of Israel.