You seriously never heard of - for example - these quotes? Are you sure you live on Planet Earth?
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, colonization or Jewish State without the eviction of the Arabs and the expropriation of their lands.
Yoram Bar Porath, Yediot Aahronot, 14 July 1972.
The Palestinians are like crocodiles, the more you give them meat, they want more.
Ehud Barak, August 28, 2000.
Reported Jerusalem Post August 30, 2000
[The Palestinians] are beasts walking on two legs.
*Menachem Begin, speech to the Knesset.
Amnon Kapeliouk “Begin and the “Beasts”’ New Statesman 25 June 1982 *
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?"
David Ben Gurion.
Nahum Goldmann, “Le Paradoxe Juif”(Weidenfeld and Nicolson 1978)
If I was an Arab leader I would never make [peace] with Israel. That is natural: we have taken their country.
David Ben Gurion.
Ibidem
We must do everything to ensure they [the Palestinian refugees] never do return… The old will die and the young will forget.
David Ben-Gurion, diary, 18 July 1948.
Michael Bar Zohar “Ben-Gurion: the Armed Prophet”( Prentice-Hall, 1967)
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 Muslim 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.
Michael Ben-Zohar “Ben-Gurion, A Biography” (Delacorte, New York 1978).
Take the American declaration of Independence. It contains no mention of territorial limits. We are not obliged to fix the limits of the State.
Moshe Dayan.
Reported The Jerusalem Post, 08 October 1967
Without [the settlements] the IDF [Israeli Defense Force] would be a foreign army ruling a foreign population."
- Moshe Dayan.
Aronson “Settlements and the Israeli-Palestinian Negotiations” (Institute for Palestinian Studies) *
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, addres to the Technion, Haifa.
Reported Haaretz, April 4, 1969.*
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.
Reported New York Times, 14 April 1983.
We declare openly that the Arabs have no right to settle on even one centimetre 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 Defence Forces.
Gad Becker, Yediot Ahronot 13 April 1983. New York Times 14 April 1983.*
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”, entry 12 June 1895.
There is a huge gap between us and our enemies not just in ability but in morality, culture, sanctity of life, and conscience. They are our neighbours 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.
Moshe Katsav.
Reported The Jerusalem Post, May 10, 2001
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”
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.
Sabri Jiryas “The Arabs in Israel”. *
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.
Matityahu Peled. Haaretz, 19 March 1972.
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.
“The Palestinians" would be crushed like grasshoppers … heads smashed against the boulders and walls.
Israeli Prime Minister Shamir in a speech to Jewish settlers.
Reported New York Times April 1, 1988
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 2 Februari 1997
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 [immigration], and for the Jewish people, all of whom will be gathered into this country.
Yitzhak Shamir.
Reported Jerusalem Domestic Radio Service, November 1990
I don’t know something called International Principles. I vow that I’ll burn every Palestinian child [that] will be born in this area. The Palestinian woman and child is more dangerous than the man, because the Palestinian child’s existence infers that generations will go on, but the man causes limited danger. I vow that if I was just an Israeli civilian and I met a Palestinian I would burn him and I would make him suffer before killing him. With one hit I’ve killed 750 Palestinians [in Rafah in 1956]. I wanted to encourage my soldiers by raping Arabic girls as the Palestinian women is a slave for Jews, and we do whatever we want to her and nobody tells us what we shall do but we tell others what they shall do.
Ariel Sharon.
Reported: Interview with Ouze Merham, 1956
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 addressing a meeting of militants from the extreme right-wing Tsomet Party.
Reported Agence France Presse, November 15, 1998.
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.
Ariel Sharon, October 3, 2001, to Shimon Peres.
Reported Kol Yisrael radio.
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 neighbour than over those of a tenant… 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.
Uri Davis “Israel: an Apartheid State”, 5.
May the Holy Name visit retribution on the Arabs’ heads, and cause their seed to be lost, and annihilate them, and cause them to be vanquished and cause them to be cast from the world. It is forbidden to be merciful to them, you must give them missiles, with relish - annihilate them. Evil ones, damnable ones."
- Ultra-Orthodox Shas Party spiritual leader Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, in a sermon discussing Passover and God’s wrath at Israel’s enemies, 8 April 2001. *
For those attacking Desmond Tutu, a few others for you to attack. Putting what he said in the right perspective.
The Occupying Power shall not deport or transfer parts of its own civilian population into the territory it occupies.
Article 49 of the Fourth Geneva Convention of 1949
We consider these settlements to be contrary to the Geneva Convention, that occupied territory should not be changed by establishment of permanent settlements by the occupying power.
- US President Carter, Questians and Answers with American/Jewish Press Association, Washington June 13, 1980*
Since the end of the 1967 war, the U.S. has regarded Israel as the occupying power in the occupied territories, which includes the West Bank,Gaza, East Jerusalem, and the Golan Heights. The U.S. considers Israel’s occupation to be governed by the Hague Regulations of 1907 and the 1949 Geneva Conventions concerning the protection of civilian populations under military occupation.
US Ambassador to the UN Pickering 27 November 1989.
I am a black South African, and if I were to change the names, a description of what is happening in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank could describe events in South Africa.
Archbishop Desmond Tutu, during Christmas visit to Jerusalem, December 25, 1989.
Reported Ha’aretz; cited in “Palestine Perspectives”, January/February 1990)
Enjoy your coming back with:
BUT…
Followed by quoting Palestianian leaders, militants, Arabs, Imams whatever…
I’m not interested. I have a lot of them.
If I wanted to debate the Palestine/Israel mess, I would have done so long ago on threads GD.
I repeat my question: Who do you refer to and can you give a CITE of that member underscoring your open accusation of such a blatant racism and even more blatant stupidity.
Salaam. A