It is utterly impossible to obtain the voluntary consent of Palestinian Arabs for converting "Palestine" into a country of Jewish majority.
My readers have a broad idea of the history of colonization. I suggest that they consider all precedents they are acquainted with and find one instance of colonization done with the consent of the native population. There is no such precedent.
We cannot offer Palestinian Arabs adequate compensation in return for Palestine. Hence there is no chance of reaching a voluntary agreement.
Zionist colonization must either stop or proceed without regard for the native population.
That is our Arab policy. Not what it should be, but what is, whether we admit it or not. What need, otherwise, of the Balfour Declaration? Or of the Mandate? Their worth to us is that an external Power has undertaken a work of administration and security that will make it impossible for the native population to hamper our work.
And all of us without exception are demanding day after day that this external Power carry out this task vigorously and resolutely.
The only disagreement on this matter between our "militarists" and our "vegetarians" is that the former prefer the iron wall to be made of Jewish soldiers whereas the latter are happy to let British soldiers do it.
We hold that Zionism is moral and just. And since it is moral and just, justice must be done whether Joseph, Simon, Ivan or Achmet agrees with us or not.1
As long as the Arabs retain the least hope of getting rid of us they will not trade it for either kind words or bread and butter because they are not a rabble but a living people. And a living people yields in such vital matters only when all hope vanishes. Then they will brush aside their extremist leaders whose watchword is "Never!" and hand the leadership over to moderates.
And when that happens I am convinced that we Jews will be found ready to give them satisfactory guarantees that both peoples can live together in peace as good neighbours.