UN General Assembly
1965

"... He warned that the Jewish settlers must under no circumstances arouse the wrath of the natives by ugly actions: must meet them rather in the friendly spirit of respect. ’Yeti — these are the words of Ahad-Ha-Am — ’what do our brethren do in Palestine? Just the very opposite: serfs they were in the lands of the Diaspora and suddenly they find themselves in freedom, and this change has awakened in their an inclination to despotism. They treat the Arabs with hostility and cruelly, deprive them of their rights, offend them without cause, and even boast of these deeds; and nobody among us opposes this despicable and dangerous inclination’. That was written in 1891 when the Zionist settlers formed a tiny minority in Palestine. ’We think’ Ahad Ha-Am warned, ’that the Arabs are all savages who live like animals and do not understand what is happening around. This is, however, a great error.’