When peace comes we will perhaps in time be able to forgive the Arabs for killing our sons, but it will be harder for us to forgive them for having forced us to kill their sons.

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "When peace comes we will perhaps in time be able to forgive the Arabs for killing our sons, but it will be harder for us to forgive them for having forced us to kill their sons." in the context of "as quoted in A Land of Our Own : An Oral Autobiography (1973) edited by Marie Syrkin, p. 242
 • Harvey Rachlin was unable to find a primary source for this quote and the one below The Jewish Press - The Mystery of Golda's Golden Gems
• Variants:
• Peace will come when the Arabs will love their children more than they hate us.
 • as quoted in A Land of Our Own : An Oral Autobiography (1973) edited by Marie Syrkin, p. 242
 • Harvey Rachlin was unable to find a primary source for this quote and the one below The Jewish Press - The Mystery of Golda's Golden Gems
• Peace will come to the Middle East when the Arabs love their children more than they hate us.
 • As quoted in Media Bias and the Middle East (2003) by Paul Carlson, p. 10
• Peace will come when the Arabs start to love their children more than they hate us.
 • As quoted in The Agony of the Promised Land (2004) by Joshua Levy, Ch. 23 "The Hope for Peace", p. 187
• We can forgive [them] for killing our children. We cannot forgive them from forcing us to kill their children. We will only have peace with [them] when they love their children more than they hate us.
 • As attributed in an advertisement in the Hollywood Reporter from the Anti-Defamation League." to mean that wisdom is timeless.