intelligence, and his national pride, in contempt. There is an ultimately insoluble contradiction between a br Jewish state of Israel that is the fulfillment of the 2,000-year-old br Jewish-Zionist dream and a state in which Arabs and Jews br possess equal rights—including the right of the Arabs democrat- br ically and peacefully to put an end to the Jewish state. Those br who refuse to give the Arab that right but tell him he is equal br think he is a fool. He is not. The reality of the situation is, therefore, clear. The Jews br and Arabs of the Land of Israel ultimately cannot coexist in a br Jewish-Zionist state. A time bomb in the Holy Land ticks away br relentlessly. A Jewish state means Jewish orientation and ties. It means br Jewish culture and a Jewish spirit in the Jewish body politic. But br above all, a Jewish state means Jewish sovereignty and control of br its destiny. That can be accomplished only by a permanent Jew- br ish majority and a small, insignificant, and placid Arab minor- br ity. But the Arabs believe that the Jews are thieves who stole br their land. The Arabs feel no ties to or emotions for a state that br breathes “Jewishness.” And they grow, quantitatively and qual- br itatively. They will surely make violent demands for more br power, including “autonomy” in various parts of the land. Even- br tually, the very majorityship of Jews will be threatened by the br Arab birthrate. The result will be bloody conflict. If we hope to avoid this terrible result, there is only one br path for us to take: the immediate transfer of Arabs from Eretz br Yisrael, the Land of Israel, to their own lands. For Arabs and br Jews of Eretz Yisrael there is only one answer: separation, Jews br in their land, Arabs in theirs. Separation. Only separation. I know only too well what the reaction of the vast majority br of people will be to my words. Indeed, it is being completed even br as I sit in Ramle Prison. My real crime is my ideas concerning br the awful danger that exists to the State of Israel because of the br very presence of its large and growing number of Arab citizens. br My real threat to the very confused and frightened government br is that my ideas are quietly shared by hundreds of thousands of br Jews in Israel who, in anger and frustration, now move to sup- br port me and give me the power to make my ideas a force in the br land. My ideas are not only suppressed by the government but br 7
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