1. "There is a huge gap between us (Jews) and our enemies
, not just in ability but in morality, culture,
sanctity of life, and conscience. They are our neighbors here, but it seems as
if at a distance of a few hundred meters away, there are people who do not
belong to our continent, to our world, but actually belong to a different
galaxy." Israeli president Moshe Katsav. The Jerusalem Post, May 10,
2001
2. "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
3. "
[The Palestinians are] beasts walking on two legs." Menahim Begin, speech to the
Knesset, quoted in Amnon Kapeliouk, "Begin and the Beasts". New Statesman, 25
June 1982.
4. "The Palestinians" would be crushed like grasshoppers ...
heads smashed against the boulders and walls." " Isreali Prime Minister (at the
time) in a speech to Jewish settlers New York Times April 1, 1988
5.
"When we have settled the land, all the Arabs will be able to do about it will
be to scurry around like drugged cockroaches in a bottle." Raphael Eitan, Chief
of Staff of the Israeli Defence Forces, New York Times, 14 April 1983.
6. "How can we return the occupied territories? There is nobody to
return them to." Golda Maier, March 8, 1969.
7. "There was no such thing
as Palestinians, they never existed." Golda Maier Israeli Prime Minister June
15, 1969
8. "The thesis that the danger of genocide was hanging over us
in June 1967 and that Israel was fighting for its physical existence is only
bluff, which was born and developed after the war." Israeli General Matityahu
Peled, Ha'aretz, 19 March 1972.
9. David Ben Gurion (the first Israeli
Prime Minister): "If I were an Arab leader, I would never sign an agreement with
Israel. It is normal; we have taken their country. It is true God promised it to
us, but how could that interest them? Our God is not theirs. 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), pp121.
10. Ben Gurion also warned in 1948 : "We must do
everything to insure they ( the Palestinians) never do return." Assuring his
fellow Zionists that Palestinians will never come back to their homes. "The old
will die and the young will forget."
11. "We have to kill all the
Palestinians unless they are resigned to live here as slaves." Chairman Heilbrun
of the Committee for the Re- election of General Shlomo Lahat, the mayor of Tel
Aviv, October 1983.
12. "Every time we do something you tell me America
will do this and will do that . . . I want to tell you something very clear:
Don't worry about American pressure on Israel. We, the Jewish people, control
America, and the Americans know it." - Israeli Prime Minister, Ariel Sharon,
October 3, 2001, to Shimon Peres, as reported on Kol Yisrael radio. (Certainly
the FBI's cover-up of the Israeli spy ring/phone tap scandal suggests that Mr.
Sharon may not have been joking.)
13. "We declare openly that the Arabs
have no right to settle on even one centimeter of Eretz Israel... Force is all
they do or ever will understand. We shall use the ultimate force until the
Palestinians come crawling to us on all fours." Rafael Eitan, Chief of Staff of
the Israeli Defense Forces - Gad Becker, Yediot Ahronot 13 April 1983, New York
Times 14 April 1983.
14. "We must do everything to ensure they [the
Palestinian refugees] never do return" David Ben-Gurion, in his diary, 18 July
1948, quoted in Michael Bar Zohar's Ben-Gurion: the Armed Prophet,
Prentice-Hall, 1967, p. 157.
15. "We should prepare to go over to the
offensive. Our aim is to smash Lebanon, Trans-Jordan, and Syria. The weak point
is Lebanon, for the Moslem regime is artificial and easy for us to undermine. We
shall establish a Christian state there, and then we will smash the Arab Legion,
eliminate Trans-Jordan; Syria will fall to us. We then bomb and move on and take
Port Said, Alexandria and Sinai." David Ben- Gurion, May 1948, to the General
Staff. From Ben-Gurion, A Biography, by Michael Ben-Zohar, Delacorte, New York
1978.
16. "We must use terror, assassination, intimidation, land
confiscation, and the cutting of all social services to rid the Galilee of its
Arab population." Israel Koenig, "The Koenig Memorandum"
17. "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." Moshe Dayan, address to the Technion, Haifa, reported
in Haaretz, April 4, 1969.
18. "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.
19. Rabin's
description of the conquest of Lydda, after the completion of Plan Dalet. "We
shall reduce the Arab population to a community of woodcutters and waiters" Uri
Lubrani, PM Ben-Gurion's special adviser on Arab Affairs, 1960. From "The Arabs
in Israel" by Sabri Jiryas.
20. "There are some who believe that the
non-Jewish population, even in a high percentage, within our borders will be
more effectively under our surveillance; and there are some who believe the
contrary, i.e., that it is easier to carry out surveillance over the activities
of a neighbor than over those of a tenant. [I] tend to support the latter view
and have an additional argument:...the need to sustain the character of the
state which will henceforth be Jewish...with a non-Jewish minority limited to 15
percent. I had already reached this fundamental position as early as 1940 [and]
it is entered in my diary." Joseph Weitz, head of the Jewish Agency's
Colonization Department. From Israel: an Apartheid State by Uri Davis, p.5.
21. "Everybody has to move, run and grab as many hilltops as they can to
enlarge the 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 militants from the extreme right-wing Tsomet
Party, Agence France Presse, November 15, 1998.
22. "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." Yoram Bar Porath, Yediot Aahronot,
of 14 July 1972.
23. "Spirit the penniless population across the
frontier by denying it employment... Both the process of expropriation and the
removal of the poor must be carried out discreetly and circumspectly." Theodore
Herzl, founder of the World Zionist Organization, speaking of the Arabs of
Palestine,Complete Diaries, June 12, 1895 entry.
24. "One million Arabs
are not worth a Jewish fingernail." -- Rabbi Yaacov Perrin, Feb. 27, 1994
[Source: N.Y. Times, Feb. 28, 1994, p. 1]
25. "We Jews, we are the
destroyers and will remain the destroyers. Nothing you can do will meet our
demands and needs. We will forever destroy because we want a world of our own."
(You Gentiles, by Jewish Author Maurice Samuels, p. 155).
26. "We will
have a world government whether you like it or not. The only question is whether
that government will be achieved by conquest or consent." (Jewish Banker Paul
Warburg, February 17, 1950, as he testified before the U.S. Senate).
27.
"We will establish ourselves in Palestine whether you like it or not...You can
hasten our arrival or you can equally retard it. It is however better for you to
help us so as to avoid our constructive powers being turned into a destructive
power which will overthrow the world." (Chaim Weizmann, Published in "Judische
Rundschau," No. 4, 1920)
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