Comment: Well, in case you are forgetting, when he said that, the war to destroy Israel has just began. A war where Israelis were outnumbered, out of positions and facing the second holocaust. Its sound bit more civil  then what their enemies were saying..."kill all Jews"....!! The war in 1948 was initiated by the Arabs. It was a war of extermination. Unfortunately for the Arabs, it didn't turn out that way.

But, what would have happen if Arabs embraced the Jewish nation instead of attacking it?? No one gave that any thought. My guess would be that the Jewish state would be more smaller, weaker and under some sort of protectorate of their Arab neighbors?? Too bad, eh? Palestinian Arabs, instead of sharing, lost it all to the Palestinian Jews.