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Quotation from Mordechai Eliyahu “It is prohibited to sell houses to non-Jews in the Land of Israel” — Jan. 17 1986 - Sephardic Chief Rabbi of Israel, commenting on the attempt by a Palestinian to buy an apartment owned by the KKL/JNF (Jewish National Fund) in Jerusalem.
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Quotation from Moshe Smilansky “It is very simple. We'll harass them until they get out” — 1891 - Member of the first wave of colonization in Palestine, reporting a dialogue between two settlers of the "Lovers of Zion" (Hovevie Tzion) in 1891.
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Quotation from David Ben Gurion “It lacks the most basic and primary concepts of civilization” — Nov. 27 1950 - Referring to Yemeni Jews in a letter to the first Israeli Chief of Staff, Yigael Yadin.
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Quotation from Moshe Dayan “It lies upon the Israeli army to carry out the fight with the object of erecting the Israeli Empire” — Feb. 12 1952 - Israel's Minister of Defense and Foreign Affairs on February 12, 1952 on Radio Israel.
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Quotation from Moshe
Katsav “It seems as if … there are people who do not belong to our continent” — May 10 2001 - President of Israel originating from Iran.
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Quotation from David Ben Gurion “It turns out that most of the Jews are thieves” — Jul. 24 1948 - In an inconsequential statement two months after the proclamation of Israel, just before he became the leader of the thieves.
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Quotation from Nissan Rilov “It was an act of barbarism, it was difficult to describe it otherwise” — 1984 - Israeli artist expelled from the Zionist Haganah after testifying what he had seen in 1939.
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Quotation from Amos Oz “It will … be easier … to break the backbone of a tiny, demilitarized Palestinian entity” — Oct. 3 1993 - Expressing its agreement for a "very small demilitarized entity" that will be easy to break if the Palestinians are not satisfied with it.
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Quotation from Arthur Ruppin “It would of course be desirable if only "race Jews" came to Palestine” — 1919 - In a book published in 1919, expresses a wish for "racial selection" among the Jews destined to colonize Palestine.
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Quotation from Yehiel Hazan “It’s in their blood – murdering Jews…” — Feb. 25 2004 - Member of the Knesset, Likud, coming to support his colleague Ze’ev Boim.
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Quotation from Shimon Gapso “I’m a proud offshoot of a glorious dynasty of racists” — Aug. 7 2013 - Mayor of Nazareth Illith. Explaining in substance, perhaps at the end of a well drunk evening, that he is the continuator of a long line of racists.
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Quotation from Naftali Bennett “I’ve killed lots of Arabs in my life – and there’s no problem with that” — Jul. 21 2013 - Minister of Economy and leader of the Foyer Juif party, in a dialogue on a prisoner's release.
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Quotation from Shimon Peres “Jerusalem will not be on the negotiating table with the Palestinian” — Feb. 13 1996 - Becoming Prime Minister after Yitzhak Rabin, explicitly locks Oslo agreements.
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Quotation from Yitzhak Ginsburg “Jewish blood and the blood of a goy are not the same thing” — June 6 1989 - Extremist Israeli rabbi, concluding in court that killing is not a crime if the victims are non-Jews.
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Quotation from Anastassia Michaeli “Judaism is at the basis of … this country to begin with. It's not just a religion” — Jul. 15 2009 - Member of Parliament for Yisrael Beiteinu.
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Quotation from Leo Pinsker “Judeophobia is a psychic aberration ...transmitted for two thousand years it is incurable” — 1882 - German-speaking Polish Jewish doctor, supporter of integration and then of the Zionist idea, exposing anti-Semitism as a hereditary defect.
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Quotation from Zalman Lifshitz “Just as the Bedouin of the Negev ... so also are the names not rooted there” — Jul. 29 1949 - Chairman of the Committee created eleven days earlier to erase the Arab toponymy of Palestine.
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Quotation from Moshe Dayan “Knew in advance that the Syrians would start to shoot” — 1981 - Explains in 1976 to a young journalist, Rami Tal, the technique for provoking violent "reprisals" before 1967 following a response to graduated provocations.
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Quotation from Danny Danon “Land-for-peace is over. We don't want a Palestinian State” — Oct. 2 2012 - Minister of Science, Technology and Space, in an interview on Israel National Radio.
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Quotation from Moshe Dayan “Let ... say that we don't have a solution and you will continue living like dogs” — Sep. 1967 - Israeli Defense Minister, at a meeting of the Rafi (extremist wing of the Labor coalition), in response to Shimon Peres, about refugees in the occupied territories.
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Quotation from David Ben Gurion “Let me first tell you one thing: it doesn't matter what the world says about Israel” — 1953 - Addressing Ariel Sharon, who had just killed 69 Palestinian civilians in Kibya in 1953 by locking them up and blowing up their homes; as reported by Sharon.
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Quotation from Yitzhak Gruenbaum “Let them say that I am anti-Semitic” — Jan. 18 1943 - Chairman of the Rescue Committee of the Jewish Agency during World War II, addressing the Zionist Executive Committee in response to Rabbi Ishe Meir Levin d'Agudat Yisrael.
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Quotation from Moshe Smilansky “Let us not be too familiar with the Arab fellahin lest our children adopt their ways” — 1908 - Activist settler, presented as a supporter of an agreement with the Palestinians, revealing his deep racism.
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Quotation from Benyamin Netanyahu “Make the distinction between terror groups and freedom fighters” — Jul. 21 2006 - Explaining that the Irgun terrorists responsible for King David's bloodbath were "freedom fighters".
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Quotation from Binyamin Elon “Make their life so bitter that they will transfer themselves willingly” — Dec. 2001 - Minister (Moledet Party) in the Sharon Government.
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Quotation from Max Nordau “More industrious and more able than the average European, not to speak of the inert Asiatic” — Aug. 29 1897 - Reactionary and elitist thinker, co-organizer of the first Zionist congress in Basel, in a typical racist discourse.
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Quotation from Yitzhak Rabin “Most of them … can be driven out. If the numbers were smaller it would be easier” — 1956 - In a meeting with Ben Gurion, shortly before his appointment to the Army Northern Command.
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Quotation from Walter Eytan “My main purpose was to begin to undermine the protocol of 12 May” — June 13 1949 - Co-Director General of the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs, explaining in June 1949 the deception to get Israel admitted to the UN.
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Quotation from Golda Eshkol Meir “My soul yearns for the dowry, and to let someone else take the bride” — Sep. 1967 - In a dialogue with Levy Eshkol a year and a half before she succeeded him as Prime Minister, exposes the problem of coming to seize the Palestinian territories, but without Palestinians.
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Quotation from Yitzhak Rabin “Next to it, a Palestinian entity, less than a state, that runs the life of Palestinians” — Sep. 30 1995 - In CNN's Evans and Novack program of September 30, 1995, expressing its opposition to a sovereign Palestinian State.
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Quotation from Menahem Ussishkin “No hope that this new Jewish State will survive ... if the Arabs are as numerous” — June 12 1938 - Director of the Jewish Agency, at a meeting of the Jewish Agency Executive on the recommendation of the Peel Commission.
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Quotation from Stephen Wise “No Jewish organisation would … sponsor a bill which would ...alter the immigration laws” — Apr. 1938 - Rabbi, leader of the American Jewish Congress and main spokesman for Zionism in the USA, in a letter addressed to elected Democrats in the aftermath of the Anchluss.
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Quotation from Vladimir Jabotinsky “No matter whether Joseph or Simon or Ivan or Achmet agree with it or not” — Nov. 4 1923 - Leader of the so-called "revisionist" fascist movement, attacking any moral objection to Zionism.
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Quotation from Ariel Sharon “No one has the right to put the Jewish people and the State of Israel on trial” — Mar. 25 2001 - On Israeli radio, criticizing the coming of the Mitchell Commission, which he calls a "historical error".
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Quotation from Bertrand Russell “No people anywhere in the world would accept being expelled en masse from their own country” — Jan. 31 1970 - Message to the International Conference of Parliamentarians in Cairo (Feb. 70), written just before his death (excerpt).
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Quotation from Yitzhak Gruenbaum “NO! and I say again, NO! Not one cow here for ten thousand Jews in Germany” — Feb. 18 1943 - Chairman of the Rescue Committee of the Jewish Agency, in an address to the Zionist Executive Council.
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Quotation from Erskine Barton Childers “Not a single order, or appeal, or suggestion about evacuation … from any Arab radio station” — May 12 1961 - BBC correspondent after 1960 for the Middle East, confirming for the first time the absence of Arab call to leave in 1948, based on radio archives.
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Quotation from Moshe Dayan “Not one single place built … that did not have a former Arab population” — Apr. 4 1969 - Talking about the creation of settlements in the period 1921-1927 on land purchased in the valley of Marj Ibn Amir / Jezreel. Often quoted incomplete about the villages destroyed after 1948.
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Quotation from Yosef Weitz “Not one village must be left, not one [Bedouin] tribe” — Dec. 20 1940 - Director of the Jewish National Fund (KKL/JNF), one of the main architects of the "transfer" and destruction of Palestinian villages in 1948. In his diary (conversation with Zalman Lifschitz).
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Quotation from Charles Fourier “Nothing is easier to bring about in six months under the protection of all the monarchs” — 1835 - Regarded as a utopian socialist, taking up biblical myths to promote a strongly anti-Semitic Zionism.
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Quotation from Abba Eban “On the fateful morning of June 5 … the choice was to live or perish” — June 1967 - In front of the UN General Assembly, tell a story that all the leaders know to be false.
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Quotation from Yaacov Perrin “One million Arabs are not worth a Jewish fingernail” — Feb. 27 1994 - Rabbi, leading the funeral service of Baruch Goldstein who had massacred 29 Palestinians in the al-Ibrahimi mosque of al-Khalil/Hebron.
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Quotation from Arthur Koestler “One nation solemnly promised to a second nation the country of a third” — 1949 - Writer, commenting on the "extravagance" of the Balfour Declaration of 1917 (extravagance approved by Koestler).
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Quotation from Hannah Arendt “Only folly could ... trusts a distant imperial power for protection” — Oct. 1945 - In her book "Zionism Reconsidered", she wrote.
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Quotation from Yitzhak Tabenkin “Our aim is the entire Land of Israel on both banks of the Jordan” — Mar. 1944 - One of the founders of the kibbutz movement, summarizing the imperial objective.
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Quotation from David Ben Gurion “Our aim is to smash Lebanon, Trans-Jordan, and Syria” — May 24 1948 - In his personal notes. More drunk with power than ever after a meeting with his counsellors, he is already anticipating 1967.
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Quotation from Chaim Weizmann “Our claims to the north are imperatively demanded by the requirements of modern economic life” — 1919 - Chaim Weizmann to the British Prime Minister Lloyd George in 1919, outlining the "minimum requirements for the realization of a Jewish national home".
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Quotation from Aharon David Gordon “Our country ...has remained desolate, poorer than other civilized countries and empty” — 1920 - Zionist ideologue, taking up the colonialist discourse on the "Terra Nullius" to conquer.
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Quotation from Yehoshafat Harkabi “Our demands … must involve such conditions as to ensure that the enemy rejects them” — Nov. 2 1973 - Former head of military intelligence, explaining that for Israel, negotiating is tantamount to pushing to surrender.
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Quotation from Nelson Mandela “Our freedom is incomplete without the freedom of the Palestinians” — Dec. 4 1997 - In his speech during the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People.
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