From "Meet the
Press"
July 24, 1977
Menachem Begin
"...I made a study before coming to
the United States on how many places called...Shiloh you have in the United States.
You have five places called Shiloh. Let us assume for a moment that the respective
governors of the states in which those places we find, issue an edict that all citizens of
the United States can settle in Shiloh escept one category of the citizens, Jews.
The Jewish citizens are absolutely excluded from those places. I suppose there would
be an outcry throughout the United States. You would be one of them who would then
say this is racism; it is racist discrimination against the Jews...Now I would like to
ask: how can I be expected, the Jewish Prime Minister, to say to Jews living in our
country, you are not allowed to acquire a piece of land and build your home there - at
Shiloh, the original Shiloh."