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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Einstein deeply criticized the Irgun, but he was still a Zionist in the end. After 1948 he put most of the blame on the Arabs.

In 1949 Einstein wrote in a letter to The Hebrew University of Jerusalem that this period is "the fulfillment of our dreams", but that he regrets that "we were compelled by the adversities of our situation to assert our rights through force of arms; it was the only way to avert complete annihilation".  Einstein served on the Board of Governors of The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

He was also preparing a televised speech for the seventh anniversary of the state of Israel before he passed away. In the draft Einstein speaks about the dangers facing Israel and says “It is anomalous that world opinion should only criticize Israel’s response to hostility and should not actively seek to bring an end to the Arab hostility which is the root cause of the tension.”[/quote]

Not quite accurate. While it is true that Albert wanted a safe homeland for the Jews he never meant that such a holy land should exclude others. This is directly antithetical to the doctrines of the founders of Zionism. He wished for the abolition of all national borders.

“Should we be unable to find a way to honest cooperation and honest pacts with the Arabs, then we have learned absolutely nothing during our two thousand years of suffering and deserve all that will come to us.”

"I should much rather see reasonable agreement with the Arabs on the basis of living together in peace than the creation of a Jewish state. My awareness of the essential nature of Judaism resists the idea of a Jewish state with borders, an army, and a measure of temporal power, no matter how modest. I am afraid of the inner damage Judaism will sustain — especially from the development of a narrow nationalism within our own ranks, against which we have already had to fight strongly, even without a Jewish state. … If external necessity should after all compel us to assume this burden, let us bear it with tact and patience."

Also interestingly, the speech from which you quoted, is likely not his words. Jewish writer Jeff Nussbaum, author of Undelivered: The Never-Heard Speeches That Would Have Rewritten History, [b]attributes the work of Abba Eban, who served as Deputy Prime Minister, Knesset member, Minister of Foreign Affairs, and Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations.[/b] [/quote]

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