1937 Ben-Gurion letter

The 1937 Ben-Gurion letter is a letter David Ben-Gurion, then head of the Jewish Agency executive committee, wrote to his son Amos on 5 October 1937, responding to the Peel Commission report proposing the partition of Mandatory Palestine into separate Jewish and Arab states. In it Ben-Gurion argued that a Jewish state on only part of Palestine should be seen as a beginning rather than a final settlement, since it would strengthen the Jewish position toward eventually controlling more of the territory. The letter also sets out his views on Jewish access to land allocated to the proposed Arab state. The original handwritten Hebrew letter is held in the Israel Defense Forces Archive, and disputed crossed-out passages in it remain a subject of scholarly debate over what Ben-Gurion truly intended. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/