The Israel Lobby
John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt: The Israel Lobby, 23 March 2006
“... third party: the Palestinians. This was well understood by Israel’s early leaders. David Ben-Gurion told Nahum Goldmann, the president of the World Jewish Congress: If I were an Arab leader I would never make terms with Israel. That is natural: we have taken their country … We come from Israel, but two thousand years ago, and what is that to ... ”