"Building a State means for us a return to the soil. We found hundreds of Arab villages. We didn’t take them away. ... We established hundreds of new Jewish villages on new soil. ... We didn’t merely buy the land, we recreated the land. We did that in rocky hills like Motza. ... In the swamps of Hedera hundreds of Jews died of malaria, and they refused to leave that place until it was made healthy. ... We did it on the sand dunes of Rishon le-Zion. With our toil, our sweat, and with our love and devotion, we are remaking the soil to enable us to settle there, not at the expense of anybody else."
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Ben Gurion, to Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry, March 19, 1946. Quoted in Unified Jewish religious education curriculum, p. 167.
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Palestine (region)
Palestine is a geographic region in Western Asia between the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan River. The name was used by Ancient Greek writers, and was later used for the Roman province Syria Palaestina, the Byzantine Palaestina Prima, and the Islamic provincial district of Jund Filastin. It is usually considered to include Israel and the State of Palestine, though some definitions also include parts of northwestern Jordan. Historical names for the region include Land of Israel, the Holy Land,
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