Congratulations Keith - you are the only person on this planet to have claimed this quote to have been a fake - that's got to be a first for Mudcat!!

Jim, you first claimed (just weeks ago on world order thread) that the quote appeared in Haaretz.
When challenged, you said he made it in an interview.
Challenged again, and you admitted it only appeared, unauthenticated, in an obscure book by an obscure author.

Google "ben gurion stolen land" as I suggested and you will see I am not alone in questioning it.

Here is a genuine, authenticated Ben Gurion quote,

"Under no circumstances must we touch land belonging to fellahs or worked by them. Only if a fellah leaves his place of settlement, should we offer to buy his land, at an appropriate price.
Written statement (1920), as quoted in Teveth, Shabtai (1985), Ben-Gurion and the Palestinian Arabs: From Peace to War, Oxford University Press."