If he had empathy, he would have held a Referendum for all the people living in the Partition area, on whether they wanted to create a Separate State to Palestine. That is what UN advocate when peoples within a country, want to break up into two Separate States.
He didn't.
“We walked outside, Ben-Gurion accompanying us. Allon repeated his question, What is to be done with the Palestinian population? ‘Ben-Gurion waved his hand in a gesture which said ‘ Drive them out! ‘ “ Yitzhak Rabin, leaked censored version of Rabin memoirs, published in the New York Times, 23 October 1979.
Does "Drive them out" suggest he was empathic to Palestinian???
What about this one?
Partition: “after the formation of a large army in the wake of the establishment of the state, we will abolish partition and expand to the whole of Palestine “ — Ben Gurion, p.22 “The Birth of Israel, 1987” Simha Flapan.
