Beyond that, there was a taste for revenge. My soul would be at rest if I knew there would be 6 million German dead to match the 6 million Jews, said Meir Dworzecki, who’d survived the concentration camps of Estonia.
Ben-Gurion countered this sentiment, not by repudiating vengeance but with cold calculation: If I could take German property without sitting down with them for even a minute but go in with jeeps and machine guns to the warehouses and take it, I would do that-if, for instance, we had the ability to send a hundred divisions and tell them, Take it.‘ But we can’t do that.
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