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.
