| Quotes
from the real haters: |
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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