Summary
An MK of the Progressive Party (later the Liberals) whose statements are quoted in Peace, Peace, When There Is No Peace as the hard-line pole inside the Progressive–General Zionist merger that formed the Liberal Party (Peace, Peace, When There Is No Peace, PDF p.483-484).
Details
- Harari told a Haolam Hazeh correspondent: “It is forbidden to return even one refugee to this country; we do not owe a single penny of compensation. My position on that matter is more extremist than Mapai … We propose to give the Arab states a period of six months. If they agree by then to solve the problem, we will exhibit generosity and we will pay humanitarian compensation. If not – no” (Haolam Hazeh, 2/9/59, quoted at Peace, Peace, When There Is No Peace, PDF p.483).
- In a symposium on the Voice of Israel he declared: “In my opinion the problem is how to reach a peace between us and the Arab states as we are today and as the Arab states are today, without conditions and without concessions” (according to Ner, November-December 1960, p.31, quoted at Peace, Peace, When There Is No Peace, PDF p.483).
- Within the Liberal Party his hard-line position “cohabits” with more moderate, Nahum Goldmann-inspired positions; the party “has no articulated position on the problem of Israel-Arab relations” (Peace, Peace, When There Is No Peace, PDF p.483-484).
Related pages
Peace, Peace, When There Is No Peace, Nahum Goldmann, Right of Return