Da die Zitate aus "Iron Wall" unlesbar sind, hier ein neuer Versuch:
No nation in history has ever willingly sat down at the negotiation table to discuss a settlement involving surrender of what they perceive as their national territory with whom they perceive as an invader. The Afrikaners in South Africa refused to negotiate with the British, the Black people of South Africa refused to negotiate with the Nationalist Government, the Native Americans, formerly known as the Red Indians, in North and South America refused to willingly negotiate with the Portuguese, Spanish and British invaders and the people of Trent and Trieste who viewed themselves as Italians had the same reaction when excluded in the unification of Italy...
[b]Our Peace-mongers are trying to persuade us that the Arabs are either fools, whom we can deceive by masking our real aims, or that they are corrupt and can be bribed to abandon to us their claim to priority in Palestine , in return for cultural and economic advantages. I repudiate this conception of the Palestinian Arabs. Culturally they are five hundred years behind us, they have neither our endurance nor our determination...
Every native population in the world resists colonists as long as it has the slightest hope of being able to rid itself of the danger of being colonised