The Philadelphia Inquirer · Philadelphia, Pennsylvania · 5 February 1978
CP-1978-006
A land so sacred to all who have held it
Transcribed from the clipping
“‘One day they came to me at the market and told me, “The Jews are working your land.” I went crazy. I stood right here and threw stones at the bulldozer until they made me go away and there was nothing I could do’… ‘They asked me to take money — 3 million Israeli pounds! But I don’t sell my grandfather’s land.
It is my sister. My daughter. How could I sell my land?’… ‘Throwing the Arabs out would be the most humane solution to the demographic problem,’ he said.
‘If we don’t want to be another South Africa with a rule by a small minority, the most humane and life-saving solution would be to put all the Arabs on trucks and carry them outside.’”
Context added by this archive
A settler proposing removal by truck, in 1978, and naming South Africa as the thing to avoid. The scan is a dense jump page; only passages legible at full resolution are transcribed.
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"A land so sacred to all who have held it," The Philadelphia Inquirer, 5 February 1978, p. 1. Covering Palestine archive, CP-1978-006. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-1978-006
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