Here's some of the quotes the founder of Pakistan, Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah, made about Israel.
Note: when he says "Musalmans of India" or "Muslims of India" he actually means Pakistanis because most of these quotes were made before the birth of Pakistan.
- “I am sure that there will be no peace in the Near East unless they (the British) give an honest and square deal to the Arabs in Palestine”. On May 25, 1945, Mr. Jinnah declared, “If Britain goes back even on the plighted word of hers, which is the barest justice done to the Arabs, it will be against the deepest sentiments and views of the Muslims of the world and it will constitute a breach of the solemn assurances given to the Musalmans of India whose sympathy and support were secured for the prosecution of the war on the basis of this promise... It is too dangerous a game to play and a bait to get the support... of the Jews for electioneering purposes, for it will certainly alienate and exasperate the Muslim world and lead to most disastrous consequences”.
- On October 12, 1945, Mr Jinnah said at Quetta, “Every man and woman of the Muslim world will die before Jewry seizes Jerusalem. I hope the Jews will not succeed in their nefarious designs and I wish Britain and America should keep their hand off and then I will see how the Jews conquer Jerusalem. The Jews, over half a million, have already been accommodated in Jerusalem against the wishes of the people. May I know which other country has accommodated them? If domination and exploitation are carried now, there will be no peace and end of wars”.
- Addressing a mass meeting in Bombay on November 8, 1945, Mr Jinnah said, “We Musalmans of India, are one with the Arab world on this issue. It is not a question of a National Home for Jews in Palestine. It is a question of Jews reconquering Palestine, which they had lost 2000 years ago, with the help of British bayonets and American money. I have no enmity against Jews. I know they were treated very badly in some parts of civilized Europe. But why should Palestine be dumped with such a large number of Jews? If Jews want to reconquer Palestine, let them face Arabs without British or American help”?
-Referring to the efforts made by President Truman to put pressure on British government to allow 100,000 Jews into Palestine, Mr. Jinnah said, “here comes the President of a great country thinking entirely of Jewry and the interests of Jews. President Truman had the effrontery to put pressure on the British government to allow a million Jews into Palestine, while he has agreed, after a long period of vacillation, to allow only a 100 Indians to migrate to the United States of America”.
When a section of the audience shouted, ‘shame’, ‘shame’,
Mr Jinnah turned around and exclaimed: “It is not shame. It is monstrous and criminal. Why doesn’t President Truman take one million Jews into USA? The reason is that the Jews do not want a National Home in Palestine. What they want is to reconquer Palestine, which they lost 2000 years ago, with the help of British bayonets and American money”. Mr Jinnah then declared that if the British government tried to violate the solemn pledge given to the Arabs in Palestine and allow the Jews into Palestine, as suggested by President Truman, there would be no peace in the Middle East and the whole Islamic world would revolt. The consequences would be disastrous. “The Muslims of India would not remain as mere spectators. They would help the Arabs in Palestine by all possible means”.
-In an interview with Duncan Hooper, Reuter’s correspondent, Mr. Jinnah warned that, if Palestine was partitioned, “there was bound to be the gravest disaster and unprecedented conflict, not only between the Arabs and the Authority that would undertake to enforce the Partition plan, but the entire Muslim world will revolt... Pakistan will have no other course left but to give its fullest support to the Arabs”. Talking to Robert Stimson of the BBC, Mr. Jinnah stated that, “the Muslims of the subcontinent had been compelled to condemn, in the strongest possible terms, the unjust and cruel decision of the United Nations concerning the partition of Palestine”.
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