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PALESTINE/ISRAEL: Netanyahu responsible for executions of Palestinian children

Netanyahu responsible for executions of children, rights group says

POSTED BY EDITOR ON NOVEMBER 27, 2015 IN ACTIVISIM & BDS, NEWS & ANALYSIS,PALESTINE | | 2 RESPONSES

Israel’s shoot-to-kill policy has left dead dozens of Palestinians, including 15 children, alleged to have attacked Israelis. Nedal Eshtayah APA images

According to the Palestinian rights group Addameer, Israel was holding 6,700 Palestinian political prisoners in October, including 320 children.

by Maureen Clare Murphy

The human rights group B’Tselem excoriated Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday, stating that he is responsible for “the transformation of police officers, and even of armed civilians, into judges and executioners” who slay Palestinians suspected of armed attacks in the streets.

“Your silence in the face of Minister of Public Security Gilad Erdan’s saying that ‘every terrorist should know that he will not survive the attack he is about to perpetrate’ is tantamount to consent to this unlawful policy,” B’Tselem said, addressing the Israeli prime minister.

The Israeli rights group said the policy amounts to a de facto death sentence, even though capital punishment is banned in the country.

This apparent shoot-to-kill policy left three children dead this week,Defense for Children International – Palestine (DCI) stated on Tuesday.

At least 94 Palestinians have been killed in a surge of violence since 1 October, and 19 Israelis were slain during the same period.

DCI has confirmed that 19 of the Palestinian fatalities were children, all but four of them killed while allegedly carrying out stabbing attacks on Israelis.

Videos and eyewitness accounts, however, cast doubt on whether some of these children were engaged in attacks, and point to reflexive use of deadly force when children could easily be apprehended and posed no immediate risk to anyone’s life.

Girl summarily executed

Security video footage shows the apparent summary execution of Hadil Wajih Awwad, 13, and the shooting of her cousin, Nurhan Ibrahim Awwad, 16, at Jerusalem’s Mahane Yehuda market on Monday.

The 30-second video shows one of the girls running towards a man who appears to be holding a gun. The girl, holding what was reported to be a pair of scissors in her hands, lunges towards the man three times.

Each time the girl nears him, she halts, and the man is able to back away from her. The video does not show her ever making physical contact with him.

The man appears to fire at her as she is running away from him and a second armed man appears and repeatedly shoots at the girl, who falls to the ground.

The second man shoots at the second girl, seen lunging at the air, several feet away from anyone else. At the same time, a third man carrying a chair runs towards the second girl, knocking her to the ground, where she remains for a few seconds. Then the second man runs up to her and shoots her at point-blank range.

A fourth man runs up and shoots one of the girls as she lies motionless, face down on the ground.

The video shows no effort to arrest the girls, who appear to only posture rather than earnestly attempt to injure anyone.

Media reported that a 70-year-old Palestinian from the occupied West Bank city of Bethlehem was injured in the alleged attack but the video does not show either of the girls making contact with anyone in the moments before they were shot.

Instead of being disarmed and taken into custody, the girls were knocked to the ground and shot at close range.

Hadil died at the scene, and Nurhan was seriously wounded and remains in critical condition, DCI stated on Tuesday.

It was reported that Hadil is the sister of Mahmoud Awwad, who died in November 2013 from injuries he sustained nine months earlier when he was shot in the back of the head with a rubber-coated steel bullet near the Qalandiya military checkpoint between Jerusalem and the West Bank city of Ramallah.

DCI said that it is also investigating the slaying of Alaa Khalil Hashash, 16, who was shot after allegedly attempting to stab an Israeli soldier at the Huwwara military checkpoint near the northern West Bank city of Nablus on Monday.

Run over by settler, shot dead by soldiers

A day earlier, another Palestinian child, 16-year-old Ashraqat Taha Qatnani, was shot dead by Israeli soldiers near Huwwara checkpoint after Gershon Mesika, a Jewish settler, ran his car into her.

“According to Israeli authorities, she was allegedly attempting to stab other settlers nearby,” DCI stated. “A witness told DCI that he saw the girl chase after three teenaged settlers before the car hit her.”

Mesika, the former head of the regional council for the northern West Bank settlements and guest of the European Parliament, stated in a video account translated by B’Tselem: “I didn’t stop to think, I hit the gas and rammed into her, she fell down and then the soldiers came and continued shooting and neutralized her completely.”

B’Tselem stated that “Mesika’s account clearly indicates that the soldiers shot Qatnani after she had already been hit by the car and was lying on the ground, posing no danger to anyone.”

Classmates of Ashraqat Qatnani mourn for the girl slain by Israeli soldiers at their school in Askar refugee camp near the West Bank city of Nablus on 23 November. Nedal Eshtayah APA images

The group added that in the cases of Qatnani and the Awwad cousins, “it is hard to see how the three girls committing the attacks posed mortal danger at the time they were shot. It appears that the security forces involved could have easily apprehended them without using live fire.”

According to DCI, Ashraqat Qatnani and Hadil Awwad are the third and fourth Palestinian girls to be killed while carrying out alleged stabbing attacks since 1 October.

Israeli Border Police shot dead Dania Irsheid, 17, on 25 October after she allegedly attempted to stab an officer at a military checkpoint near the Ibrahimi mosque in the West Bank city of Hebron.

But a Palestinian eyewitness who was next in line at the checkpoint told CNN that the terrified girl was shot several times while her hands were in the air and after her school bag was checked and no knife was found.

Bayan al-Esseili, 16, was also shot dead by Border Police in Hebron after an alleged stabbing attack on 17 October.

In both Irsheid and al-Esseili’s cases, eyewitnesses told media that Israeli forces denied medical treatment to the girls.

Muhammad Ismail Shubaki, 19, died from his injuries hours after he was wounded near al-Fawwar refugee camp outside Hebron.

Video published by the Arabic-language Quds news network, shows Shubaki lying on the ground, moaning and writhing in pain, his face and back bloodied.

A voice can be heard asking, “Who sent you?”

Shubaki seems to only mutter “God is greatest” – an expression used in everyday speech, particularly at moments of distress or pain. A man in civilian clothing then rolls Shubaki onto his back and searches his pockets as he is asked for his ID.

Israeli soldiers keep their guns trained on the youth, but provide no first aid. The video shows medics attending to another person, presumably the soldier injured in the alleged attack, who was eventually transferred to hospital in Jerusalem.

The Palestinian Authority health ministry told Quds that the teen died because he was left to bleed to death, and that his life could have been saved.

Another Palestinian youth, 16-year-old Ibrahim Abdulhalim Daoud, from the village of Deir Ghassan, died from his injuries on Wednesday, two weeks after he was shot in the heart during confrontations with Israeli forces in Ramallah.

DCI recorded the killing of two additional Palestinian children this month.

Sadiq Ziad Gharbiya, 16, was slain by Israeli forces at a checkpoint near the West Bank town of Abu Dis after he allegedly attempted to stab a soldier on 10 November.

Ahmad Abu al-Rab, also 16, was killed and 17-year-old Mahmoud Kamil wounded on 2 November, when Israeli soldiers opened fire at the boys at the Jalameh checkpoint in the northern West Bank, in what the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights described as a “crime of excessive use of force.”

An eyewitness told DCI that the youths had walked toward a Palestinian gas station near the checkpoint in the middle of the night and asked to use the toilets. They were approached by five Israeli soldiers, who searched them at gunpoint.

“One of the soldiers grabbed Ahmad by the neck, when the others found a pocketknife with his friend. Ahmad managed to get away and took out his pocketknife, at which point that soldier fired at his legs,” the rights group stated.

“The witness said that several military jeeps then arrived at the scene and ordered him to vacate the area. When he left, he saw Ahmad was still alive, on his knees, and surrounded by soldiers,” DCI added.

Children’s bodies held by Israel

Ahmad Abu al-Rab is among nine children, including the three killed this week, whose bodies are still being held by Israel.

“Beyond the punitive nature of the action, it has made verifying the details and circumstances of the incidents more difficult,” DCI said of this practice.

Meanwhile, the Israeli parliament gave preliminary approval to a bill sponsored by Anat Berko of Netanyahu’s ruling Likud party that would allow Palestinian children under the age of 14 to be sentenced to prison for terrorism charges.

“If the bill becomes law, children under 14 would reportedly be placed in a children’s home until they turn 14, after which the child would be transferred to a mainstream security prison,” Ma’an News Agency reported.

“If passed, the law would only affect children who are citizens of Israel, as Israeli military law already allows for children from the occupied West Bank and Gaza to be placed in security prisons from the age of 12,” Ma’an added.

The Electronic Intifada reported earlier this month that “Israel has arrested so many Palestinian children since the start of October that it has opened a new detention center specifically for them.”

Human rights lawyers said that children are being held in appalling conditions and are subjected to strip-searches at the Givon prison in Ramle, a town in present-day Israel.

The Fourth Geneva Convention forbids an occupying power from transferring prisoners to its own territory.

According to the Palestinian rights group Addameer, Israel was holding 6,700 Palestinian political prisoners in October, including 320 children.

Netanyahu responsible for executions of children, rights group says

POSTED BY EDITOR ON NOVEMBER 27, 2015 IN ACTIVISIM & BDS, NEWS & ANALYSIS,PALESTINE | | 2 RESPONSES

Israel’s shoot-to-kill policy has left dead dozens of Palestinians, including 15 children, alleged to have attacked Israelis. Nedal Eshtayah APA images

According to the Palestinian rights group Addameer, Israel was holding 6,700 Palestinian political prisoners in October, including 320 children.

by Maureen Clare Murphy

The human rights group B’Tselem excoriated Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday, stating that he is responsible for “the transformation of police officers, and even of armed civilians, into judges and executioners” who slay Palestinians suspected of armed attacks in the streets.

“Your silence in the face of Minister of Public Security Gilad Erdan’s saying that ‘every terrorist should know that he will not survive the attack he is about to perpetrate’ is tantamount to consent to this unlawful policy,” B’Tselem said, addressing the Israeli prime minister.

The Israeli rights group said the policy amounts to a de facto death sentence, even though capital punishment is banned in the country.

This apparent shoot-to-kill policy left three children dead this week,Defense for Children International – Palestine (DCI) stated on Tuesday.

At least 94 Palestinians have been killed in a surge of violence since 1 October, and 19 Israelis were slain during the same period.

DCI has confirmed that 19 of the Palestinian fatalities were children, all but four of them killed while allegedly carrying out stabbing attacks on Israelis.

Videos and eyewitness accounts, however, cast doubt on whether some of these children were engaged in attacks, and point to reflexive use of deadly force when children could easily be apprehended and posed no immediate risk to anyone’s life.

Girl summarily executed

Security video footage shows the apparent summary execution of Hadil Wajih Awwad, 13, and the shooting of her cousin, Nurhan Ibrahim Awwad, 16, at Jerusalem’s Mahane Yehuda market on Monday.

The 30-second video shows one of the girls running towards a man who appears to be holding a gun. The girl, holding what was reported to be a pair of scissors in her hands, lunges towards the man three times.

Each time the girl nears him, she halts, and the man is able to back away from her. The video does not show her ever making physical contact with him.

The man appears to fire at her as she is running away from him and a second armed man appears and repeatedly shoots at the girl, who falls to the ground.

The second man shoots at the second girl, seen lunging at the air, several feet away from anyone else. At the same time, a third man carrying a chair runs towards the second girl, knocking her to the ground, where she remains for a few seconds. Then the second man runs up to her and shoots her at point-blank range.

A fourth man runs up and shoots one of the girls as she lies motionless, face down on the ground.

The video shows no effort to arrest the girls, who appear to only posture rather than earnestly attempt to injure anyone.

Media reported that a 70-year-old Palestinian from the occupied West Bank city of Bethlehem was injured in the alleged attack but the video does not show either of the girls making contact with anyone in the moments before they were shot.

Instead of being disarmed and taken into custody, the girls were knocked to the ground and shot at close range.

Hadil died at the scene, and Nurhan was seriously wounded and remains in critical condition, DCI stated on Tuesday.

It was reported that Hadil is the sister of Mahmoud Awwad, who died in November 2013 from injuries he sustained nine months earlier when he was shot in the back of the head with a rubber-coated steel bullet near the Qalandiya military checkpoint between Jerusalem and the West Bank city of Ramallah.

DCI said that it is also investigating the slaying of Alaa Khalil Hashash, 16, who was shot after allegedly attempting to stab an Israeli soldier at the Huwwara military checkpoint near the northern West Bank city of Nablus on Monday.

Run over by settler, shot dead by soldiers

A day earlier, another Palestinian child, 16-year-old Ashraqat Taha Qatnani, was shot dead by Israeli soldiers near Huwwara checkpoint after Gershon Mesika, a Jewish settler, ran his car into her.

“According to Israeli authorities, she was allegedly attempting to stab other settlers nearby,” DCI stated. “A witness told DCI that he saw the girl chase after three teenaged settlers before the car hit her.”

Mesika, the former head of the regional council for the northern West Bank settlements and guest of the European Parliament, stated in a video account translated by B’Tselem: “I didn’t stop to think, I hit the gas and rammed into her, she fell down and then the soldiers came and continued shooting and neutralized her completely.”

B’Tselem stated that “Mesika’s account clearly indicates that the soldiers shot Qatnani after she had already been hit by the car and was lying on the ground, posing no danger to anyone.”

Classmates of Ashraqat Qatnani mourn for the girl slain by Israeli soldiers at their school in Askar refugee camp near the West Bank city of Nablus on 23 November. Nedal Eshtayah APA images

The group added that in the cases of Qatnani and the Awwad cousins, “it is hard to see how the three girls committing the attacks posed mortal danger at the time they were shot. It appears that the security forces involved could have easily apprehended them without using live fire.”

According to DCI, Ashraqat Qatnani and Hadil Awwad are the third and fourth Palestinian girls to be killed while carrying out alleged stabbing attacks since 1 October.

Israeli Border Police shot dead Dania Irsheid, 17, on 25 October after she allegedly attempted to stab an officer at a military checkpoint near the Ibrahimi mosque in the West Bank city of Hebron.

But a Palestinian eyewitness who was next in line at the checkpoint told CNN that the terrified girl was shot several times while her hands were in the air and after her school bag was checked and no knife was found.

Bayan al-Esseili, 16, was also shot dead by Border Police in Hebron after an alleged stabbing attack on 17 October.

In both Irsheid and al-Esseili’s cases, eyewitnesses told media that Israeli forces denied medical treatment to the girls.

Muhammad Ismail Shubaki, 19, died from his injuries hours after he was wounded near al-Fawwar refugee camp outside Hebron.

Video published by the Arabic-language Quds news network, shows Shubaki lying on the ground, moaning and writhing in pain, his face and back bloodied.

A voice can be heard asking, “Who sent you?”

Shubaki seems to only mutter “God is greatest” – an expression used in everyday speech, particularly at moments of distress or pain. A man in civilian clothing then rolls Shubaki onto his back and searches his pockets as he is asked for his ID.

Israeli soldiers keep their guns trained on the youth, but provide no first aid. The video shows medics attending to another person, presumably the soldier injured in the alleged attack, who was eventually transferred to hospital in Jerusalem.

The Palestinian Authority health ministry told Quds that the teen died because he was left to bleed to death, and that his life could have been saved.

Another Palestinian youth, 16-year-old Ibrahim Abdulhalim Daoud, from the village of Deir Ghassan, died from his injuries on Wednesday, two weeks after he was shot in the heart during confrontations with Israeli forces in Ramallah.

DCI recorded the killing of two additional Palestinian children this month.

Sadiq Ziad Gharbiya, 16, was slain by Israeli forces at a checkpoint near the West Bank town of Abu Dis after he allegedly attempted to stab a soldier on 10 November.

Ahmad Abu al-Rab, also 16, was killed and 17-year-old Mahmoud Kamil wounded on 2 November, when Israeli soldiers opened fire at the boys at the Jalameh checkpoint in the northern West Bank, in what the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights described as a “crime of excessive use of force.”

An eyewitness told DCI that the youths had walked toward a Palestinian gas station near the checkpoint in the middle of the night and asked to use the toilets. They were approached by five Israeli soldiers, who searched them at gunpoint.

“One of the soldiers grabbed Ahmad by the neck, when the others found a pocketknife with his friend. Ahmad managed to get away and took out his pocketknife, at which point that soldier fired at his legs,” the rights group stated.

“The witness said that several military jeeps then arrived at the scene and ordered him to vacate the area. When he left, he saw Ahmad was still alive, on his knees, and surrounded by soldiers,” DCI added.

Children’s bodies held by Israel

Ahmad Abu al-Rab is among nine children, including the three killed this week, whose bodies are still being held by Israel.

“Beyond the punitive nature of the action, it has made verifying the details and circumstances of the incidents more difficult,” DCI said of this practice.

Meanwhile, the Israeli parliament gave preliminary approval to a bill sponsored by Anat Berko of Netanyahu’s ruling Likud party that would allow Palestinian children under the age of 14 to be sentenced to prison for terrorism charges.

“If the bill becomes law, children under 14 would reportedly be placed in a children’s home until they turn 14, after which the child would be transferred to a mainstream security prison,” Ma’an News Agency reported.

“If passed, the law would only affect children who are citizens of Israel, as Israeli military law already allows for children from the occupied West Bank and Gaza to be placed in security prisons from the age of 12,” Ma’an added.

The Electronic Intifada reported earlier this month that “Israel has arrested so many Palestinian children since the start of October that it has opened a new detention center specifically for them.”

Human rights lawyers said that children are being held in appalling conditions and are subjected to strip-searches at the Givon prison in Ramle, a town in present-day Israel.

The Fourth Geneva Convention forbids an occupying power from transferring prisoners to its own territory.

According to the Palestinian rights group Addameer, Israel was holding 6,700 Palestinian political prisoners in October, including 320 children.

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BB: Talmudic Quotes

CLAIM 01: "A pregnant non-Jew is no better
than a pregnant animal." Coschen hamischpat 405.

RESPONSE: The above quote is a wrong inference from a fiscal law in Shulchan Oruch, Choshen Mishpat 405.3, that relates to times when slavery was a standard and accepted practice across the world.

BLOGGER: Response is BS. Even during the time mentioned above, the quote of Talmud, which is supposed to be a holy book, should not be as it is.

CLAIM 02: "It is permitted to take the body and the life of a Gentile." Sepher ikkarim III c 25.

RESPONSE: This is a misquotation. Rabbi Yosef Albo (the author) was asked by a Christian thinker about seeming injustice of the laws of Judaism dealing with charging interest on a loan. (According to Deuteronomy 23:20 and 23:21, a Jew is not allowed to lend with interest to another Jew, but may do so to a Gentile).

R. Albo answers: The "Gentile" or "heathen" in the above passage refers to idolater, who refuses to keep seven Noahide laws. The laws are universal for all mankind: A) prohibition of idolatry, B) prohibition of blasphemy, C) prohibition of murder, D) prohibition of immorality and promiscuity, E) prohibition of theft, F) establishment of judicial system, G) prohibition of cruelty to animals.

Such a person, who does not respect other's rights, places himself apart from human community and therefore can expect to be treated according to his own rules. He is a threat to everyone around and hence if somebody kills him, that person is not charged. On the contrary, even according to non-Jewish philosophers in those days (14th and 15th century, Spain), as R Albo brings, such a person should be killed. So it is regarding money matters: the prohibition of taking interest, that applies to everybody, including a non-Jew who keeps the Noahide laws (as R. Albo mentions a few sentences earlier), do not apply to him.

BLOGGER: What a crackpot full of steaming shit. First, an idolater is not obliged to follow the Nohide laws. Second, even if he is, but violates them all or part thereof, he does not deserve to be killed by someone. Third, one can not just kill someone who has a different belief. Anybody is free to believe in whatever he wants as far as no harm is
done to those living around him when the belief is carried out into action.

CLAIM 03: "It is the law to kill anyone who denies the Torah. The Christians belong to the denying ones of the
Torah." Coschen hamischpat 425 Hagah 425.

RESPONSE: This is from the Shulcan Aruch and applies to killing Jewish heretics. The following line in this passage is that this law does not apply to anyone non-Jewish and it is forbidden to harm any gentile. The Jewish heretics are people which are a potential cause of harm and trouble to the Jewish nation. The penalty is designed to demonstrate the severity with which heretical views were considered, rather than a practical penalty as such penalties were rarely imposed. E.S./David S. Maddison.

BLOGGER: The quote says, “anyone who denies the Torah”, then immediately followed by, “The Christians belong to the denying ones of the Torah.” I cannot find any reference to Jewish heretics, or “it is forbidden to harm any gentile”. Response is nothing but hogwash.

BB: Cases of shame

CASES OF SHAME: What is a rabbi?

The word "Rabbi" refers to one of the ancient scribes - supposedly a holy man - who participated in writing the "Talmud". In Arabic, which is a Semitic language and a cousin to Hebrew, the word is"Rabbanie", or "Rabbie", means a godly man. My question is, are they really godly? I strongly doubt that. Below are some of their news…

Israel's new Ashkenazi chief rabbi case: JERUSALEM: Israel's new Ashkenazi chief rabbi is facing growing calls to step down amid allegations of misconduct. The allegations center on sexual harassment charges against Yona Metzger, as well as charges that he engaged in fraud and is not qualified for the post. Aides to Metzger have rejected the allegations as a smear campaign fueled by political rivals.

Metzger and his Sephardi counterpart, Rabbi Shlomo Amar, were elected as Israel's chief rabbis April 14 by a 150-member public committee. Since then, however,
opposition to Metzger has grown. In the latest development, a Tel Aviv accountant filed a petition Monday in the High Court of Justice challenging Metzger's appointment. It will be heard by a three-judge panel.

The petition claims that allegations of fraud and other improprieties involving Metzger were not fully investigated because of his 1998 pledge not to stand for chief rabbi of Tel Aviv. Metzger's spokesman, Roni Rimon, told the Israeli daily Ma'ariv that the petition was full of "lies, lies and more lies" produced by "professional slanderers.". Metzger had been accused of forging witnesses' signatures on marriage contracts and unlawfully demanding payment for performing weddings, the daily Ha'aretz reported. As a result of the allegations, Metzger's permit to serve as a chief rabbi of a major city was revoked. However, it was reinstated several months later after a hearing before three senior Israeli rabbis -- including Eliyahu Bakshi - Doron, a former Sephardi chief rabbi -- who accepted Metzger's explanations and his commitment to leave the Tel Aviv race, the paper said.

The petition also argues that the Metzger, 50, who previously was rabbi of north Tel Aviv, was not qualified to
fill the chief rabbi's duties as head of the country's rabbinic court system because he never had been a religious judge or rabbi of a major city. The
petition maintained that the elections committee for the chief rabbi was not adequately informed of the misconduct allegations against Metzger. In related development, Ma'ariv recently published what it said were sexual harassment allegations involving Metzger. Three weeks before Metzger's election as chief
rabbi, the paper reported, it learned of complaints from four adult men who
claimed Metzger had touched their arms, legs and chests and expressed admiration for their muscular physiques.

Park Avenue rabbi Case: A prominent Park Avenue rabbi had a mistress nearly half his age sign a bizarre cohabitation contract - promising she’d get liposuction, become better educated and continue their already hot-and-heavy sexual relationship in exchange for half his house, the woman claims in a bombshell lawsuit. Janet Pizzo says she had a seven-year affair with the married Metropolitan Synagogue Rabbi Joel Goor - which included recurring steamy sex in his rabbinical office while he lied to his wife about his whereabouts. But their courtship crumbled when she suspected him of having another girlfriend, and he’s since become vindictive. She even caught him on audio tape threatening to prance around their Bronxhome naked in front of her 17-year-old daughter.

You’ve got to move,” Goor says, according to an audio tape reviewed by The Post. “This is my house . . . I’m allowed to walk around nude in my house. So you better tell [her daughter] Mary,” Goor told Pizzo.“I’m allowed to walk round this house . . . and I’m going to.”. Goor’s lawyer declined to comment on the allegations. “I truly loved this guy, I really did,” said a weepy Pizzo, 48, complaining how the 73-year-old Man of God locked her out of their bedroom, removed the cushions from her couch and vowed to unplug the refrigerator. http://www.canonist.com/?p=1245

Zionist Israel

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 with the aim of smashing Lebanon, Trans-jordan and Syria... The weak point in the Arab coalition is Lebanon [for] the Moslem regime is artificial and easy to undermine. A Christian state should be established... When we smash the [Arab] Legions strength and bomb Amman, we will eliminate Transjordan, too, and then Syria will fall. If Egypt still dares to fight on, we shall bomb Port Said, Alexandria, and Cairo." " 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)

28. "Our race is the Master Race. We are divine gods on this planet. We are as different from the inferior races as they are from insects. In fact, compared to our race, other races are beasts and animals, cattle at best. Other races are considered as human excrement. Our destiny is to rule over the inferior races. Our earthly kingdom will be ruled by our leader with a rod of iron. The masses will lick our feet and serve us as our slaves." - Israeli prime Minister Menachem Begin in a speech to the Knesset [Israeli Parliament] quoted by Amnon Kapeliouk, "Begin and the Beasts," New Statesman, June 25, 1982

29. "Tell me, do the evil men of this world have a bad time? They hunt and catch whatever they feel like eating. They don't suffer from indigestion and are not punished by Heaven. I want Israel to join that club. Maybe the world will then at last begin to fear us instead of feeling sorry. Maybe they will start to tremble, to fear our madness instead of admiring our nobility. Let them tremble; let them call us a mad state. Let them understand that we are a savage country, dangerous to our surroundings, not normal, that we might go wild, that we might start World War Three just like that, or that we might one day go crazy and burn all the oil fields in the Middle East. Even if you'll prove to me that the present war is a dirty immoral war, I don't care. We shall start another war, kill and destroy more and more. And do you know why it is all worth it? Because it seems that this war has made us more unpopular among the civilized world.We'll hear no more of that nonsense about the unique Jewish morality. No more talk about a unique people being a light upon the nations. No more uniqueness and no more sweetness and light. Good riddance." -- Former Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon

30. "The Modern Age is the Jewish Age, and the twentieth century, in particular, is the Jewish Century." -Yuri Slezkine, Professor of History at University of California, Berkeley, "The Jewish Century"; Princeton University Press

31. "What shocks and worries me is the narrow-mindedness and the shortsightedness of our military leaders. They seem to presume that the State of Israel may or even must-behave in the realm of international relations according to the laws of the jungle- -the long chain of false incidents and hostilities we have invented, and so many clashes we have provoked;" - From Diary of Moshe Sharett, former Primer Minister of Israel in Livia Rokach, Israel's Sacred Terrorism published 980

32. Hebrew essayist Achad Ha-Am, after paying a visit to Palestine in 1891: "Abroad we are accustomed to believe that Israel is almost empty; nothing is grown here and that whoever wishes to buy land could come here and buy what his heart desires. In reality, the situation is not like this. Throughout the country it is difficult to find cultivable land which is not already cultivated."

33. The Balfour Declaration to Baron Rothchild, on the 2nd of November, 1917: "His Majesty's Government view with favor the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people, and will use their best endeavors to facilitate the achievement of this object, it being clearly understood that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine, or the rights and political status enjoyed by Jews in any other country."

34. Lord Sydenham, Hansard, House of Lords, 21 June 1922: "If we are going to admit claims on conquest thousands of years ago, the whole world will have to be turned upside down."

35. 1923:Vladimir Jabotinsky, The Iron Wall, "Zionist colonization must either be terminated or carried out against the wishes of the native population. This colonization can, therefore, be continued and make progress only under the protection of a power independent of the native population - an iron wall, which will be in a position to resist the pressure to the native population. This is our policy towards the Arabs..."

36. Vladimir Jabotinsky, founder of Revisionist Zionism (precursor of Likud), The Iron Wall, 1923: "A voluntary reconciliation with the Arabs is out of the question either now or in the future. If you wish to colonize a land in which people are already living, you must provide a garrison for the land, or find some rich man or benefactor who will provide a garrison on your behalf. Or else-or else, give up your colonization, for without an armed force which will render physically impossible any attempt to destroy or prevent this colonization, colonization is impossible, not difficult, not dangerous, but IMPOSSIBLE!... Zionism is a colonization adventure and therefore it stands or falls by the question of armed force. It is important... to speak Hebrew, but, unfortunately, it is even more important to be able to shoot - or else I am through with playing at colonizing."

37. David Ben Gurion, future Prime Minister of Israel, 1937, Ben Gurion and the Palestine Arabs, Oxford University Press, 1985: "We must expel Arabs and take their places."

38. Joseph Weitz, head of the Jewish Agency's Colonization Department in 1940. From "A Solution to the Refugee Problem": "Between ourselves it must be clear that there is no room for both peoples together in this country. We shall not achieve our goal if the Arabs are in this small country. There is no other way than to transfer the Arabs from here to neighboring countries - all of them. Not one village, not one tribe should be left."

39. Israeli official Arthur Lourie in a letter to Walter Eytan, director general of the Israeli Foreign Ministry (ISA FM 2564/22). From Benny Morris, "The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem 1947-49", p. 297: "...if people become accustomed to the large figure and we are actually obliged to accept the return of the refugees, we may find it difficult, when faced with hordes of claimants, to convince the world that not all of these formerly lived in Israeli territory. It would, in any event, seem desirable to minimize the numbers...than otherwise."

40. David Ben-Gurion, May 1948, to the General Staff. From Ben- Gurion, A Biography, by Michael Ben-Zohar, Delacorte, New York 1978: "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."

41. BenDavid -Gurion, one of the father founders of Israel, described Zionist aims in 1948: "A Christian state should be established [in Lebanon], with its southern border on the Litani river. We will make an alliance with it. When we smash the Arab Legion's strength and bomb Amman, we will eliminate Transjordan too, and then Syria will fall. If Egypt still dares to fight on, we shall bomb Port Said, Alexandria and Cairo... And in this fashion, we will end the war and settle our forefathers' account with Egypt, Assyria, and Aram"

42. [Begin, and Yitzhak Shamir who were members of the party became Prime Ministers.] Albert Einstein, Hanna Arendt and other prominent Jewish Americans, writing in The New York Times, protest the visit to America of Menachem Begin, December 1948: "Among the most disturbing political phenomena of our time is the emergence in the newly created State of Israel of the Freedom Party (Herut), a political party closely akin in its organization, method, political philosophy and social appeal to the Nazi and Fascist parties."

43. Martin Buber, Jewish Philosopher, addressed Prime Minister Ben Gurion on the moral character of the state of Israel with reference to the Arab refugees in March 1949. "We will have to face the reality that Israel is neither innocent, nor redemptive. And that in its creation, and expansion; we as Jews, have caused what we historically have suffered; a refugee population in Diaspora."

44. Moshe Dayan (Israel Defense and Foreign Minister), on February 12 1952. Radio "Israel.": "It lies upon the people's shoulders to prepare for the war, but it lies upon the Israeli army to carry out the fight with the ultimate object of erecting the Israeli Empire."

45. Martin Buber, to a NewYork audience, Jewish Newsletter, June 2, 1958: "When we [followers of the prophetic Judaism] returned to Palestine...the majority of Jewish people preferred to learn from Hitler rather than from us."

46. Aba Eban (the Israeli Foreign Minister) stated arrogantly. New York Times June 19, 1967: "If the General Assembly were to vote by 121 votes to 1 in favor of "Israel" returning to the armistice lines-- (pre June 1967 borders) "Israel" would refuse to comply with the decision."

47. Dr. Israel Shahak, Chairperson of the Israeli League for Human and Civil Rights, and a survivor of the Bergen Belsen concentration camp, Commenting on the Israeli military's Emergency Regulations following the 1967 War. Palestine, vol. 12, December 1983: "Hitler's legal power was based upon the 'Enabling Act', which was passed quite legally by the Reichstag and which allowed the Fuehrer and his representatives, in plain language, to be what they wanted, or in legal language, to issue regulations having the force of law. Exactly the same type of act was passed by the Knesset [Israeli's Parliament] immediately after the 1067 conquest granting the Israeli governor and his representatives the power of Hitler, which they use in Hitlerian manner."

48. Joseph Weitz, Director of the Jewish National Fund, the Zionist agency charged with acquiring Palestinian land, Circa 194. Machover Israca, January 5, 1973 /p.2: "The only solution is Eretz Israel [Greater Israel], or at least Western Eretz Israel [all the land west of Jordan River], without Arabs. There is no room for compromise on this point ... We must not leave a single village, not a single tribe."

49. Israeli Rabbi Yitzhak Ginsburg, Inferring that killing isn't murder if the victim is Gentile. Jerusalem Post, June 19,1989: "Jewish blood and a goy's [gentile's] blood are not the same."

50. Benyamin Netanyahu, then Israeli Deputy Foreign Minister, former Prime Minister of Israel, tells students at Bar Ilan University, From the Israeli journal Hotam, November 24, 1989: "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."

51. Former Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir declares at a Tel Aviv memorial service for former Likud leaders, November 1990. Jerusalem Domestic Radio Service: "The past leaders of our movement left us a clear message to keep Eretz Israel from the Sea to the Jordan River for future generations, for the mass aliya [immigration], and for the Jewish people, all of whom will be gathered into this country."

52. Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak, quoted in Associated Press, November 16, 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...."

53. Ben Gurion: In 1899, Davis Triestsch wrote to Herzl: " I would suggest to you to come round in time to the "Greater Palestine" program before it is too late... the Basle program must contain the words "Great Palestine" or "Palestine and its neighboring lands" otherwise it's nonsense. You do not get ten million Jews into a land of 25,000 Km2". " The present map of Palestine was drawn by the British mandate. The Jewish people have another map which our youth and adults should strive to fulfill -- From the Nile to the Euphrates."

54. Vladimir Jabotinsky (the founder and advocate of the Zionist terrorist organizations), Quoted by Maxime Rodinson in Peuple Juif ou Problem Juif. (Jewish People or Jewish Problem): "Has any People ever been seen to give up their territory of their own free will? In the same way, the Arabs of Palestine will not renounce their sovereignty without violence."

We enthusiastically chose to become a colonial society, ignoring international treaties, expropriating lands, transferring settlers from Israel to the occupied territories, engaging in theft and finding justification for all these activities. Passionately desiring to keep the occupied territories, we developed two judicial systems: one - progressive, liberal - in Israel; and the other - cruel, injurious - in the occupied territories. In effect, we established an apartheid regime in the occupied territories immediately following their capture. That oppressive regime exists to this day.