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 From the Zionist archives:

Joseph Weitz Diary

The following is a translation from an article, published on 29.9.1967 in the Israeli Labour Party daily Davar. The author is Joseph Weitz, who for many years was head of the Jewish Agency’s Colonization Department (the body in charge of the actual organization of Zionist settlement in Palestine). In discussing the possibility of colonizing the newly-occupied territories, the author quotes the following passage, an entry made in his diary in 1940:

'Between ourselves it must be clear that there is no room for both peoples together in this country… We shall not achieve our goal of being an independent people with the Arabs in this small country. The only solution is Palestine, at least Western Palestine [Palestine west of the Jordan river] without Arabs… And there is no other way but to transfer the Arabs from here to the neighbouring countries; to transfer all of them, not one village, not one tribe should be left. And the transfer should be directed to Iraq, Syria and even Trans-Jordan. Money, a lot of money, will be found for this purpose. And only after this transfer will the country be able to absorb millions of our brethren. There is no other way out.'

Commenting on what he had written in his diary 27 years earlier, the author goes on to say:

'From that point of view, the ‘transfer’ solution was discussed at the time and it was supported by B. Katznelson, J. Vulkani and M. Ussishkin [Berl Katznelson was Ben Gurion’s predecessor as leader of the most important Zionist political party, and thus the chief Zionist leader in Palestine; the other two persons mentioned were also very prominent Zionist leaders – Trans.] and some preliminary preparations were made in order to put this theory into practice. Years later, when the UN passed a resolution to partition Palestine into two states, the War of Independence broke out to our great good fortune; and in this war a twofold miracle happened: a territorial victory and the flight of the Arabs. In the Six Days’ War one great miracle happened: a tremendous territorial victory; but most of the inhabitants of the liberated territories remained ‘stuck’ to their places which may destroy the very foundation of our state.'