Israel will regard this plan [JFK’s plan for the return of Palestinians] as a more serious danger to her existence than all the threats of the Arab dictators and Kings, than all the Arab armies, than all of Nasser’s missiles and his Soviet MIGs. […] Israel will fight against this implementation down to the last man.
David Ben-Gurion (1st prime minister of Israel) in a letter to Jewish leaders in 1962, quoted in “The Passionate Attachment: America’s Involvement with Israel, 1947 to the Present”, 1992