REFRAINS OF HATE:
- "We must expel Arabs and take their places."- David
Ben Gurion, 1937, Ben Gurion and the Palestine
Arabs, Oxford University Press, 1985. -
- We must use terror, assassination, intimidation, land
confiscation, and the cutting of all social services to
rid the Galilee of its Arab population."- David Ben-
Gurion, May 1948, to the General Staff. From Ben-
Gurion, A Biography, by Michael Ben-Zohar,
Delacorte, New York 1978. -
- "There has been Anti-Semitism, the Nazis, Hitler,
Auschwitz, but was that their fault? They see but one
thing: we have come and we have stolen their country.
Why would they accept that?"- Quoted by Nahum
Goldmann in Le Paraddoxe Juif (The Jewish
Paradox), pp. 121-122. -
- "Jewish villages were built in the place of Arab
villages. You do not even know the names of these
Arab villages, and I do not blame you because
geography books no longer exist. Not only do the
books not exist, the Arab villages are not there either.
Nahlal arose in the place of Mahlul; Kibbutz Gvat in the
place of Jibta; Kibbutz Sarid in the place of Huneifis;
and Kefar Yehushua in the place of Tal al-Shuman.
There is not a single place built in this country that did
not have a former Arab population." - David Ben
Gurion quoted in The Jewish Paradox, by Nahum
Goldmann, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1978, p. 99. -
- "Let us not ignore the truth among ourselves ...
politically we are the aggressors and they defend
themselves... The country is theirs, because they
inhabit it, whereas we want to come here and settle
down, and in their view we want to take away from
them their country." - David Ben Gurion, quoted on pp
91-2 of Chomsky’s Fateful Triangle, which appears in
Simha Flapan’s "Zionism and the Palestinians pp 141-
2 citing a 1938 speech. -
- "There is no such thing as a Palestinian people... It is
not as if we came and threw them out and took their
country. They didn’t exist."- Golda Meir, statement to
The Sunday Times, 15 June, 1969. -
- "How can we return the occupied territories? There is
nobody to return them to." - Golda Meir, March 8,
1969. -
- "Any one who speaks in favor of bringing the Arab
refugees back must also say how he expects to take
the responsibility for it, if he is interested in the state of
Israel. It is better that things are stated clearly and
plainly: We shall not let this happen." - Golda Meir,
1961, in a speech to the Knesset, reported in Ner,
October 1961 -
- "This country exists as the fulfillment of a promise
made by God Himself. It would be ridiculous to ask it
to account for its legitimacy." - Golda Meir, Le Monde,
15 October 1971 -
- "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. -
- "[Israel will] create in the course of the next 10 or 20
years conditions which would attract natural and
voluntary migration of the refugees from the Gaza
Strip and the west Bank to Jordan. To achieve this we
have to come to agreement with King Hussein and not
with Yasser Arafat." - Yitzhak Rabin (a "Prince of
Peace" by Clinton’s standards), quoted in David
Shipler in the New York Times, 04/04/1983 citing Meir
Cohen’s remarks to the Knesset’s foreign affairs and
defense committee on March 16. -
- "[The Palestinians] are beasts walking on two legs."-
Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin, speech to
the Knesset, quoted in Amnon Kapeliouk, "Begin and
the ’Beasts,"’ New Statesman, June 25, 1982. -
- "The Partition of Palestine is illegal. It will never be
recognized.... Jerusalem was and will for ever be our
capital. Eretz Israel will be restored to the people of
Israel. All of it. And for Ever." - Menachem Begin,
following UN vote to partition Palestine. -
- "The past leaders of our movement left us a clear
message to keep Eretz Israel from the Sea to the
River Jordan for future generations, for the mass aliya
(=Jewish immigration), and for the Jewish people, all
of whom will be gathered into this country." - Former
Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir declares at a Tel Aviv
memorial service for former Likud leaders, November
1990. Jerusalem Domestic Radio Service. -
- "The settlement of the Land of Israel is the essence of
Zionism. Without settlement, we will not fulfill Zionism.
It’s that simple." - Yitzhak Shamir, Maariv, 02/21/1997.
-
- "(The Palestinians) would be crushed like
grasshoppers ... heads smashed against the boulders
and walls." - Isreali Prime Minister (at the time) Yitzhak
Shamir in a speech to Jewish settlers New York
Times April 1, 1988 -
- "Israel should have exploited the repression of the
demonstrations in China, when world attention
focused on that country, to carry out mass expulsions
among the Arabs of the territories." - Benyamin
Netanyahu, then Israeli Deputy Foreign Minister,
former Prime Minister of Israel, speaking to students
at Bar Ilan University, from the Israeli journal Hotam,
November 24, 1989. -
- "The Palestinians are like crocodiles, the more you
give them meat, they want more".... - Ehud Barak,
Prime Minister of Israel at the time - August 28, 2000.
Reported in the Jerusalem Post August 30, 2000 -
- "If we thought that instead of 200 Palestinian fatalities,
2,000 dead would put an end to the fighting at a
stroke, we would use much more force...." - Israeli
Prime Minister Ehud Barak quoted by the Associated
Press, November 16, 2000. -
- Asked by Gideon Levy, a columnist for the Haaretz
newspaper, what he would have done if he had been
born a Palestinian, Ehud Barak’s response was "I
would have joined a terrorist organization." -
- "It is the duty of Israeli leaders to explain to public
opinion, clearly and courageously, a certain number of
facts that are forgotten with time. The first of these is
that there is no Zionism, colonialization, or Jewish
State without the eviction of the Arabs and the
expropriation of their lands." - Ariel Sharon, Israeli
Foreign Minister, addressing a meeting of Tsomet
militants, Agence France Presse, November 15,
1998. -
- "Everybody has to move, run and grab as many
(Palestinian) hilltops as they can to enlarge the
(Jewish) settlements because everything we take now
will stay ours...Everything we don’t grab will go to
them." - Ariel Sharon, Israeli Foreign Minister,
addressing a meeting of the Tsomet Party, Agence
France Presse, Nov. 15, 1998. -
- "Israel may have the right to put others on trial, but
certainly no one has the right to put the Jewish people
and the State of Israel on trial." - Israeli Prime Minister
Ariel Sharon, 25 March, 2001 quoted in BBC News
Online.
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