Original sentence: David Ben-Gurion, who on occasion stated that had he been an Arab, he would have fought the Zionists, compared the glory that Izz ad-Din's actions aroused in the 1930s to the fame won in Zionist discourse by Yosef Trumpeldor
Edited sentence: David Ben-Gurion, who on occasion admitted that were he an Arab, he would have fought the Zionists, compared the glory that Izz ad-Din's actions aroused in the 1930s to the fame won in Zionist discourse by Yosef Trumpeldor