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Quotation from David Ben Gurion “If a war is extended...our greatest gain will be the Galilee” — Apr. 1948 - Extract from a protocol of the provisional government, between March and May 1948 according to the context, providing for the conquest of the Galilee attributed to the Palestinian state in 1947.
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Quotation from Menachem Begin “If he gets the chance, he'll surround the Knesset with his tanks” — 1977 - Speaking of his damned soul Ariel Sharon.
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Quotation from Ehud Barak “If I were a Palestinian at the right age, I would have joined one of the terrorist organizations” — Mar. 7 1998 - Questioned by Gideon Levy, an editorialist from Haaretz, on what he would have done if he had been born Palestinian.
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Quotation from David Ben Gurion “If I were an Arab leader I would never make terms with Israel” — 1956 - Conversation with Nahum Goldmann.
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Quotation from Shlomo Ben Ami “If I were Palestinian I would have rejected Camp David, as well” — Feb. 14 2006 - Former Minister of Foreign Affairs, chief negotiator at Camp David in 2000. In a debate with Norman Finkelstein on "Democracy Now".
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Quotation from Moshe Dayan “If one considers oneself as the people of the Bible, one should possess the Biblical lands” — Aug. 10 1967 - In a statement reported by the Jerusalem Post, caressing the Zionist dream of "keeping everything" after the Six Day War.
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Quotation from David Ben Gurion “If Palestine will not absorb them another territory will. Zionism is endangered” — Dec. 17 1938 - Letter to the Zionist Executive expressing the fear that Palestine might not be the only solution to the rescue of European Jews.
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Quotation from Ehud Olmert “If the day comes when the two-state solution collapses, the State of Israel is finished” — Nov. 29 2007 - Interviewed by Haaretz at the end of the Annapolis "negotiations".
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Quotation from Abba Eban “If the General Assembly were to vote by 121 votes to 1 ... Israel would refuse to comply” — June 19 1967 - Israeli Minister of Foreign Affairs, repeating Zionism's contempt for the application of international law.
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Quotation from Collectif “If the Jews had a state ... the Jewish question could already be considered solved” — Sep. 15 1935 - In the introduction, published in 1939, to the so-called "Nuremberg" racist laws of 1935.
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Quotation from Menachem Brinker “If the right of way back of refugees … then I’d prefer to give up any agreement” — 1996 - Academic and co-founder of "Peace Now", showing the limits of so-called "left-wing" Zionism.
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Quotation from Benyamin Begin “If the two-state solution is the only solution, then there is no solution” — June 10 2009 - Minister Without Portfolio.
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Quotation from Ehud Barak “If this bloc of millions of Palestinians cannot vote, that will be an apartheid state” — Feb. 3 1999 - At the Herzliya conference.
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Quotation from Menachem Begin “If this is Palestine, then it belongs to a people who have lived here before” — 1969 - In response to a question about 'recognition of the existence of a Palestinian people' at Kibbutz Mapam of Ein Haroresh.
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Quotation from David Ben Gurion “If we become merely landlords, then this will not be our homeland” — 1934 - In a letter to Palestinian nationalist leader Moussa Alami.
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Quotation from Meir Amit “If we can get the first blow in our casualties will be comparatively light” — 1967 - General, leader of Mossad in 1967.
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Quotation from Yitzhak Rabin “If we don’t want to get to apartheid” — 1976 - In an interview shown in the film "Rabin in his own words", where he compares colonies to cancer.
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Quotation from David Ben Gurion “If we know the family, strike mercilessly, women and children included” — Jan. 1 1948 - Exposing its doctrine of reprisals.
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Quotation from Ehud Barak “If we thought that instead of 200 Palestinian fatalities, 2,000 dead would put an end” — Nov. 16 2000 - Prime Minister (for another 2 months), on the radio.
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Quotation from Benyamin Netanyahu “If you are reelected prime minister, there will be no Palestinian state? Indeed” — Mar. 15 2015 - Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Benyamin Netanyahu (Head of Likud).
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Quotation from David Ben Gurion “Immigration at the rate of 60,000 a year means a Jewish state in all of Palestine” — June 1937 - In a letter to Moshe Sharett, quoted twice by Ben Gurion's biographer, in slightly different forms.
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Quotation from Theodor Herzl “Immigration is consequently futile unless we have the sovereign right to continue” — Feb. 14 1896 - Establishing the principle that there is no Jewish state without a guarantee of a colonial power.
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Quotation from Yitzhak Ravid “Implement a stringent policy of family planning in relation to its Muslim population” — Dec. 2003 - President of the Rafael Arms Development Authority, in a speech given at the Herzliya conference.
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Quotation from Uri Ariel “In five years there will be 550,000 or 600,000 Jews in Judea and Samaria” — May 16 2014 - Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, during a radio interview.
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Quotation from Yaakov Meiersohn “In Palestine, there is no unsettled land at all” — Jul. 1920 - Leader of the communist tendency of Poale Zion, during its congress in Vienna.
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Quotation from Collectif “In short, they will not accept us, even as their slaves” — 1890 - From a Bedouin tribe on the lands of what became Rehovot, in a petition addressed to the Istanbul government.
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Quotation from David Ben Gurion “In such a primitive community as the Marrocans - such a thing is possible” — Aug. 3 1959 - In a letter to Judge Moshe Etzioni.
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Quotation from Moshe Beilinson “In Syria, in Iraq, in the Arabian Peninsula lies the homeland of the Arab people” — Dec. 4 1929 - Writer, journalist and spokesperson for Ben Gurion's Labour Party, writes.
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Quotation from Yitzhak Shamir “In the meantime we would have reached half a million people” — June 27 1992 - Immediately after his defeat in the elections, in an interview with the newspaper Maariv
, indicating the path actually followed after the Oslo Accords.
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Quotation from Yusuf Ziya al-Khalidi “In the name of God, let Palestine be left alone” — Mar. 1 1899 - Mayor of Jerusalem, former Arab deputy in the Turkish parliament, after having taken note of the conclusions of the Basel congress, adjures Chief Rabbi of Paris Zadok Kahn in these terms.
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Quotation from Ovadia Yossef “In the old city of Jerusalem they are swarming like ants. They should go to hell” — Jul. 27 2001 - Former Sephardic Chief Rabbi, on the occasion of the commemoration of the destruction of the first temple in the 7th century B.C.E.
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Quotation from Amitai Karanik “In wartime, there is no civilian population” — Oct. 2014 - Major of the Israeli army, exposing the doctrine implemented against the Palestinians of Gaza.
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Quotation from Vladimir Jabotinsky “In working for Palestine, I would even ally myself with the devil” — 1921 - Leader of the fascist revisionist tendency, in response to the condemnations of his alliance with the Polish pogromist Petlioura.
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Quotation from Menachem Begin “In your country there are many cities with biblical names” — Jul. 19 1977 - In his first meeting with US President Jimmy Carter at the White House, exploiting the relationship with Christian Zionism and biblical religious roots.
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Quotation from Menachem Begin “Is that the demographic problem? A people that lives for 7 years?"” — Dec. 6 1968 - Mocking Labour who would like a solution to the "demographic problem" without abandoning any important center of Palestinian population.
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Quotation from Yosef Baratz “Isn’t it evacuation which has been continuing our work in the country for the last 40-50 years?” — Aug. 8 1937 - Leader of the Mapaï party, criticizing the reservations of the delegates of Hachomer Hatza'ir to the "transfer" of Palestinians.
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Quotation from David Ben Gurion “Israel better rid itself of the territories and their Arab population” — June 10 1967 - In a radio statement on June 10, 1967, sees that Israel will impose apartheid in the occupied territories.
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Quotation from David Ben Gurion “Israël did no expel even one Arab” — 1949 - In all his dialogues with western interlocutors.
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Quotation from Ronen Bergman “Israel has used assassination and targeted killings more than any country in the West” — Jan. 23 2018 - Israeli investigative journalist, in an interview on the occasion of the release of his book Rise and Kill First - The Secret History of Israel's Targeted Assassinations.
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Quotation from Benyamin Netanyahu “Israel should have exploited the repression … in China ... to carry out mass expulsions” — Nov. 24 1989 - Then Minister of Foreign Affairs, at Bar Ilan University.
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Quotation from Hendrik Verwoerd “Israel, like South Africa, is an apartheid state” — Nov. 23 1961 - Former Prime Minister of South Africa, in the daily Rand Daily Mail.
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Quotation from Richard Spencer “Israel...is the most important and perhaps most revolutionary ethno-state” — Oct. 19 2017 - “White supremacist" leader promoting a "white" state in North America, who describes his "mission" as a kind of "white Zionism".
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Quotation from Efraim Eitam “Israeli Arabs are in large measure the ticking bomb” — Mar. 20 2002 - Former Minister of Construction and National Infrastructure.
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Quotation from Leo Motzkin “It does not require too much money to resettle a Palestinian village on another land” — 1917 - Zionist leader between the 1st Congress in Basel and the Haavara Agreements with the Nazis in 1933, early follower of the "transfer" of the Palestinians.
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Quotation from Shimon Peres “It is a tragedy what the Armenians went through, but not a genocide” — Apr. 10 2001 - In the vein of all the declarations on the incomparable uniqueness of the genocide of the European Jews, and to flatter Turco-Israeli relations.
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Quotation from Golda Meir “It is better that things are stated clearly and plainly: We shall not let this happen” — Oct. 1961 - Speech to the Knesset.
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Quotation from David Ben Gurion “It is clear that Lebanon is the weakest link in the Arab League” — Feb. 27 1954 - Letter from David Ben Gurion to Moshe Sharett, then Prime Minister of Israel, urging him to implement a plan to dismember and destabilize Lebanon. Intended to remain confidential, this letter was nevertheless published, despite the protest of the Israeli government, by David Ben Gurion's son, in 1979, as an appendix to his posthumous memoirs.
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Quotation from Yitzhak Shamir “It is doubtful that we would have been able to create an independent Jewish State” — Oct. 27 1998 - In an interview, explains that without the terrorism of which he was a leader; Israel might never have come into existence.
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Quotation from Alfred Bonné “It is essentiel not to give up easily the proposal of ‘compulsion’” — Nov. 21 1937 - Director of an Institute at the Jewish National Fund (KKL/JNF), at a meeting of the "Transfer Committee" after July 1937.
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Quotation from Yitzhak Shamir “It is permissible to lie for the sake of the Land of Israel” — 1992 - The former terrorist, now Prime Minister, has repeated many times what he was practicing.
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