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Quotation from David Ben Gurion “Our future does not depend on what the nations [goyim] say, but what the Jews do” — Apr. 27 1955 - During the Independence Day Rally at Ramat Gan Stadium.
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Quotation from Theodor Herzl “Our movement … has everywhere to fight an embittered battle with the revolutionary parties” — Oct. 22 1897 - Draft of Herzl's letter to the Kaiser of October 22, 1897.
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Quotation from Abba Eban “Our object should be to infuse them with an Occidental spirit” — 1969 - Then Minister of Foreign Affairs of Israel, expressing his racist views towards Mizrahi Jewish immigrants (and Arabs in general).
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Quotation from Nathan Yalin-Mor “Our plans for large-scale immigration offered Germany ...to rid Europe of the Jews” — 1978 - Former Lehi terrorist turned proponent of negotiations with the PLO, about Zionist contribution to the Nazi project on the Jews.
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Quotation from Ofer Akunis “Our right to the land is eternal and irrevocable” — May 25 2015 - Minister without portfolio, talking about the 'right' to a Land of Israel with undefined contours.
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Quotation from David Ben Gurion “Our supreme quality, our intellectual and moral advantage” — 1950 - In a speech to young Israelis.
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Quotation from Israel Zangwill “Palestine is a country without a people; the Jews are a people without a country” — Dec. 1901 - Taking up the propaganda of the Christian Zionists (before becoming an opponent of the choice of Palestine for a Jewish national project).
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Quotation from Chaim Weizmann “Palestine is not Rhodesia and that 600,000 Arabs live there” — Aug. 1925 - In a speech without future at the 14th Zionist World Congress in Vienna, he said.
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Quotation from Chaim Weizmann “Palestine will be as Jewish and England is English, or America american” — Sep. 21 1919 - Speech to the English Zionist Federation.
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Quotation from Hannah Arendt “Palestine, of all places, was swamped with all kinds of goods ‘made in Germany’” — 1963 - Evoking, at the end of the Eichmann trial of 1961, the attitude of the Zionist leaders towards Nazism in the 1930s.
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Quotation from Eli Ben-Dahan “Palestinians are beasts, they are not human.” — Aug. 1 2013 - Vice-Minister of Defense in 2013, Rabbi.
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Quotation from Yaakov Zrubavel “Perhaps these are not the Jews we would like to see coming here” — June 5 1949 - Head of the Middle East Department of the Jewish Agency, talking about Oriental Jewish immigrants.
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Quotation from Amos Oz “Picked up their submachine guns, and dashed out to smash the hostile red Indians or Arabs” — 1993 - "Imagining" the other, if not being in solidarity with them, expressing an indifference equal to the 'old yishuv' and the 'pioneers'.
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Quotation from Unidentified / Non identifié “Plague Jews with anti-Semitic slogans such as 'Bloody Jew', 'Jews go to Palestine'” — 1953 - In an article in the 1953 Davar daily newspaper.
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Quotation from David Ben Gurion “Politically we are the aggressors and they defend themselves” — 1938 - Speech in 1938.
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Quotation from Theodor Herzl “Poor Jews, but also Christians who wanted to get rid of them, would subscribe” — Feb. 14 1896 - Explaining that anti-Semites, in addition to the States, will contribute to the Jewish State by financing it.
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Quotation from Menachem Begin “Preceding the Arab invasion … we continued to make sallies into Arab territory” — 1972 - Admitting that in 1948, Zionists, especially the Irgun terrorists under his leadership, were already attacking the territory planned for the "Arab State" before the proclamation of Israel.
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Quotation from Avi Dichter “Prevent the slightest thought ...to transform Israel to a country of all its citizens” — Jul. 18 2018 - Rapporteur of the Basic Law "Israel - Nation State of the Jewish People", explaining ingeniously that the purpose of this law is to make apartheid irreversible.
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Quotation from Abba Eban “Propaganda is the art of persuading others of what one does not believe oneself” — June 17 1977 - Representative of Israel to the United Nations.
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Quotation from Mordechai Gur “Q—Without ... distinctions between civilians and non-civilians? A—What distinction?” — May 10 1978 - General, Chief of Staff of the Army from 1974 to 1978, justifying state terrorism without hesitation.
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Quotation from Walter [Lord Moyne] Guinness “Racial domination by these newcomers over the original inhabitants” — June 9 1942 - Expressing in the British House of Lords his hostility to the Zionist project. This hostility led to his assassination in Cairo on 6 November 1944 by two Lehi terrorists. The bodies of the two assassins are now buried at the "Monument of Heroes" in Jerusalem.
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Quotation from Tzipi Livni “Real hooliganism during the course of the recent operation, which I demanded” — Jan. 19 2009 - In a statement to the Israeli media at a time when more than 1,000 Palestinians in Gaza have already died.
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Quotation from Judah Magnes “Refugees should never be made use of as a trump in the hands of politicians” — Oct. 1948 - Former president of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Reportedly pronounced shortly before his death on October 27, 1948.
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Quotation from Martin Buber “Reject with abhorrence the methods of nationalistic domination” — Sep. 1 1921 - At the 12th Zionist Congress in Karlovy Vary (Karlsbad), accepting all the beginnings of Zionism but recoiling from its consequences, he rejected with horror the methods of nationalist domination from which he himself had suffered.
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Quotation from Collectif “Rejects the establishment of a Palestinian Arab state west of the Jordan river” — Jan. 1999 - Platform of the Likud government, known as the "Likud Charter".
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Quotation from Bob Boothby “Resettlement of the Arab population … This should, have been carried out ... by the British” — Jan. 14 1964 - President of the Anglo-Israeli Association, referring to the development and consequences of the 1917 Balfour Declaration.
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Quotation from Golda Meir “Return the occupied territories? There is nobody to return them to” — Mar. 8 1969 - New York Times interview.
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Quotation from David Ben Gurion “Return to Zion and to the Bible is a supreme expression of the rebirth ...of the Jewish people” — 1950 - In a writing showing his total identification between "spirituality" and nationalism.
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Quotation from Meir Dizengoff “Rob the rights of ...other workers upon coming to Eretz Yisrael” — 1909 - Future Mayor of Tel-Aviv.
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Quotation from Chaim Weizmann “Samuel is our friend, and has worked loyally with us from the first moment” — 1921 - In front of an American audience, talking about the nomination of Herbert Samuel as British governor in Palestine.
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Quotation from Leo Heiman “Save your souls, all ye faithful: The Jews are using poison gas and atomic weapons” — June 1964 - A Zionist officer who fought in 1948, describing some of the methods used to drive out an unarmed population.
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Quotation from David Ben Gurion “Save … only half of them ... by transporting them to Eretz Yisrael, then I would opt for the second alternative” — Dec. 7 1938 - One month after the Nazi Kristallnacht pogrom, in a speech delivered in London (meeting of MAPAM leaders).
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Quotation from Ariel Sharon “Settlements can be built …. Let them build but without talking” — June 22 2003 - Statement to the Israeli Cabinet, June 22, 2003.
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Quotation from Chaim Weizmann “Should Palestine fall within the British sphere of influence ... we could have … a million Jews” — Nov. 12 1914 - In a letter to C.S. Scott, publisher of the Manchester Guardian.
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Quotation from Albert Einstein “Should the Jews not learn to live in peace .. , the struggle against them will follow” — Nov. 25 1929 - In a letter to Chaim Weizmann, takes the opposite view of the objectives of real Zionism.
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Quotation from Shaul Mofaz “Show no pity to anyone, even if it causes traffic holdups and anger” — Sep. 6 2005 - Minister of Defense, during a tour of the West Bank.
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Quotation from Mordechai Hod “Sixteen years planning had gone into those initial eighty minutes” — Mar. 29 1972 - General, Commander of the Air Force, about the 6 Day War.
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Quotation from Joachim Prinz “Solution of the Jewish question? It was our Zionist dream!” — Sep. 17 1937 - An executive member of the German Zionist Federation, he left Germany for the USA in 1937 and took on the highest responsibilities in the world Zionist organizations.
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Quotation from Uri Ariel “State clearly that there won't be a Palestinian state west of the Jordan River” — Jul. 11 2013 - Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development (colonist, former Secretary of the Yesha Council), at a Yesha meeting.
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Quotation from David Ben Gurion “Strengthening the Hagana, accelerating the [Zionist] enterprise and imposing Hebrew Labor” — 1929 - During a meeting of the Histadrout.
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Quotation from Aharon David Gordon “Such creations, or even the creation of the Bible alone, give us a perpetual right” — 1921 - Influential member of the Zionist labor movement, in a public letter.
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Quotation from Benzion Netanyahu “Terrorism is the first general attack on a free society” — 1986 - Father of Benyamin Netanyahu, former personal secretary of the extreme right-wing leader Vladimir Jabotinsky, claiming that "terrorism" is only there to strengthen the USSR.
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Quotation from David Ben Gurion “That he would foist on the colonies the evil of mixed labour” — 1920 - President of the Histadrut (1921-28), polemicizing against Moshe Smilansky of the Farmers' Federation, who preferred Palestinian employment.
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Quotation from Uzi Landau “That would be a fight to the death between us and the Palestinians” — Dec. 14 2001 - Interior Minister in the Sharon government, member of the far-right Yisrael Beiteinu party.
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Quotation from David Ben Gurion “The acceptance of partition does not commit us to renounce Transjordan” — 1937 - Writing in support of the Peel Commission's partition project during a speech at a Labour Party meeting.
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Quotation from Anthony Ashley Cooper “The ancient and rightful lords of the soil, the Jews” — Jul. 30 1853 - Seventh Earl of Shaftesbury, English statesman, one of the founders of Christian Zionism, in a letter to British Foreign Minister George Hamilton Gordon.
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Quotation from Anthony Ashley Cooper “The ancient city of the people of God is about to resume a place among the nations” — 1838 - Seventh Earl of Shaftesbury, English statesman, on the occasion of the opening of a British embassy in Jerusalem (in reference to Luke 21-24).
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Quotation from Menachem Begin “The annihilation of Arab power; and secondly, the expansion of our territory” — Oct. 12 1955 - Terrorist one day ... then leader of the Herut party, declared before the Israeli parliament.
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Quotation from Moshe Feiglin “The Arab destroys everything he touches” — May 31 2004 - Settler in the West Bank and Likud deputy.
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Quotation from Walter Shaw “The Arabs have come to see in Jewish immigration … a possible overlord of the future” — 1929 - 1929 British Shaw Commission of Inquiry.
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