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Quotation from Danny Danon “The long-term vision is ... Jewish sovereignty over the communities ... of Judea and Samaria” — Sep. 13 2012 - Minister of Science, Technology and Space.
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Quotation from Martin Buber “The majority of Jewish people preferred to learn from Hitler rather than from us” — June 2 1958 - In front of a Jewish audience in New York (while propagating the myth of the 'return to Palestine').
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Quotation from Moshe Sharett “The memorandum that we had submitted ...(for the) transfer of the Arabs … to Transjordan” — June 12 1937 - Relating a dinner with the American Consul General in Jerusalem George Wadsworth.
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Quotation from James Forrestal “The method ... to bring coercion and duress on other nations in the General Assembly bordered closely on scandal” — Feb. 3 1948 - U.S. Secretary of Defense (1947-1949), who committed suicide or was defenestrated on May 22, 1949, exposing to Roosevelt the means used to obtain the partition vote for Palestine on November 29, 1947.
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Quotation from Albert Hyamson “The moral … rights of the tenants, who had been resident on that land all along, were ignored” — 1950 - Influential Zionist who became Commissioner for Migration in Palestine in 1921, described in 1950 the situation he experienced in the 1920s.
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Quotation from David Ben Gurion “The more we emphasize the terrible distress of the Jewish masses … So be silent” — June 1938 - Commenting before the executive of the Jewish Agency on his wishes for the Jewish Rescue Conference that was about to open in Evian.
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Quotation from Collectif “The non-Jewish population … nearly nine tenths ...are emphatically against the entire Zionist program” — Aug. 29 1919 - Report of the American King-Crane Commission of 1919 in Palestine (published in 1922).
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Quotation from Ariel Sharon “The Oslo agreement … for the Palestinians, is the only agreement they possess” — May 3 1998 - Speaking at the WINEP symposium in Washington.
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Quotation from Moshe Yaalon “The Palestinian threat harbours cancer-like attributes that have to be severed” — Aug. 25 2012 - Minister of Defense, before an assembly of rabbis.
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Quotation from Ehud Barak “The Palestinians are like crocodiles” — Aug. 28 2000 - Then Prime Minister.
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Quotation from Elias Sanbar “The Palestinians, who have agreed to give up part of their land” — Oct. 12 2000 - Palestinian participant in the negotiations around the Oslo Accords, expresses in this interview with Zeev Sternhell his hope - his illusions - that Zionists may comply with international law.
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Quotation from Rafael Eitan “The Phalange will organize tiny little houses for the Palestinians” — Sep. 1982 - Israeli Chief of Staff, about the Sabra and Shatila massacre in Beirut in 2002.
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Quotation from Collectif “The population must be expelled outside the borders of the state” — Mar. 1948 - Excerpts from Plan D, the "Dalet Plan," which set Zionist military objectives before the proclamation of the State of Israel.
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Quotation from Konrad Adenauer “The power of the Jews… reconciliation between the Jewish people and the German people.” — Dec. 29 1965 - In an interview with ZDF television. "Jewish People", "Jewish Power in America", a collaboration with Israel based on barely concealed anti-Semitism.
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Quotation from Martin Buber “The power to heal our people of their murderous sickness of causeless hatred” — Jan. 1961 - Famous philosopher who was a supporter of a binational state, in the magazine Ner of the binationalist group Ichud (Unity).
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Quotation from Avigdor Lieberman “The prisoners should be drowned” — Jul. 7 2003 - Israeli Minister of Transport, on Israeli radio, suggesting drowning the imprisoned Palestinians.
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Quotation from Yehuda Leib Maimon “The Promised Land extends from the River of Egypt to the Euphrates” — Jul. 9 1947 - Rabbi, member of the Jewish Agency for Palestine, in his testimony before the UN Commission of Inquiry in 1947.
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Quotation from Ram Yavne “The radical axis headed by Iran is more risky than the global jihad one” — May 22 2017 - Brigadier General head of the army's Strategic Division, in response to journalist Bryan Bender about Israeli support to al-Qaeda and Daech.
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Quotation from Moshe Sharett “The refugees will find their place in the diaspora … The majority will become the dregs” — 1950 - Second "moderate" President of Israel.
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Quotation from Chaim Weizmann “The rescue of thousands of Jews is not for me but temporary lives” — 1935 - Speech given in 1935.
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Quotation from Meron Benvenisti “The right, certainly, but the left, too, hates Arabs” — Aug. 8 2003 - Former deputy mayor of Jerusalem, author of Sacred Landscape (2000).
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Quotation from Israel Shahak “The same type of act ... granting the Israeli governor ... the power of Hitler” — Dec. 1983 - President of the Israeli Human Rights League, Bergen Belsen survivor, commenting on the emergency laws passed after the 1967 war.
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Quotation from Vladimir Jabotinsky “The sense of national specificity lays in the man’s “blood,” in his physical-racial type” — June 1904 - Founder of the "revisionist movement", ideological ancestor of the Israeli "right", tutelary figure of the Likud, celebrated in many streets and avenues in Israel. Writing in a Russian publication, he glorifies "ethnic" segregation and a racialist vision of humanity and the "Jewish people".
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Quotation from Yitzhak Shamir “The settlement of the Land of Israel is the essence of Zionism” — Feb. 21 1997 - Former Lehi terrorist then former Prime Minister.
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Quotation from Moshe Dayan “The settlements established in the territories are there forever,” — 1969 - Two years after the conquest of 1967, already announces the project of annexations.
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Quotation from Benyamin Begin “The settlements … constitute an obstacle … to the estabishment of an Arab state” — 1991 - Son of Menachem Begin, an important voice of Likud in 1991.
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Quotation from Ovadia Yossef “The six million Holocaust victims were reincarnations of the souls of sinners” — Aug. 2000 - Ex-Sephardic Chief Rabbi of Israel (1973-1983), who became the “spiritual leader” of the religious Shas party, resuming the religious rationalization of the genocide of European Jews. Saturday sermon.
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Quotation from Moshe Yaalon “The soldier didn't know he was shooting at a Jew” — Dec. 30 2003 - IDF Chief of Staff, in response to Knesset members about a Jewish Israeli wounded by the army.
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Quotation from Ariel Sharon “The spirit, and that is what will be decisive in the war in which we find ourselves” — June 23 2002 - Appealing to Nationalist Mysticism in an Address to the Jewish Agency, Jerusalem.
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Quotation from Moshe Sharett “The state of Israel cannot be ruled … without deceit and adventurism” — 1956 - 2nd "moderate" President of Israel, in his notebooks, shortly before his resignation in 1956.
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Quotation from Gideon Ezra “The state of Israel does not intend … to permit a creeping right of return” — Jul. 29 2003 - Minister without portfolio in the Sharon government, in a select committee, commenting on the law prohibiting the reunification of Palestinian families.
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Quotation from Yeshayahu Leibowitz “The state of Israel today is neither a democracy nor a state abiding by the rule of law” — 1988 - Israeli Orthodox scientist, moralist and historian, in an article entitled "Forty years later”.
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Quotation from Collectif “The State of Israel … will ensure complete equality of social and political rights to all its inhabitants” — May 14 1948 - Day of Israel's proclamation of independence.
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Quotation from Commission britannique Peel “The teaching is inspired by a purely Jewish rather than Palestinian objective” — 1937 - In its report, it states the following about Jewish education in the Yishuv.
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Quotation from Moshe Dayan “The territory from the Litani southward will be totally annexed to Israel” — May 16 1954 - Israeli Chief of Staff, for whom butchering Lebanon is child's play.
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Quotation from Eliezer Ben Yehouda “The thing we must do now is ...to conquer the country, covertly, bit by bit” — Jul. 1882 - Promoter of modern Hebrew, speaking about the expansion of Jewish settlements.
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Quotation from David Ben Gurion “The transfer of population is what makes possible a comprehensive settlement program” — Aug. 7 1937 - During a debate in the Zionist Assembly during the Peel Commission debates (English text completed with partial citations).
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Quotation from Theodor Herzl “The unfortunate Jews are now carrying the seeds of Anti-Semitism into England” — Feb. 14 1896 - Developing the thesis, taken up by all Zionists, of an inevitable anti-Semitism due to the Jews of Eastern Europe.
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Quotation from Yitzhak Ben-Zvi “The vast majority of the peasant farmers do not have their origins in the Arab conquerors” — 1929 - Future 2nd president of Israel, he sees in the Palestinians descendants of Jews converted to Islam.
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Quotation from Ariel Sharon “The war of independence is not over yet — 1948 was only the first chapter” — Apr. 13 2001 - Interviewed by Ari Shavit.
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Quotation from Benyamin Netanyahu “The weak crumble, are slaughtered and are erased from history” — Aug. 29 2018 - During a renaming ceremony for the Shimon Peres Negev Nuclear Research Center.
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Quotation from Abba Eban “The world will side with a liberation movement” — June 15 1967 - Then Minister of Foreign Affairs, during an inter-ministerial meeting.
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Quotation from Yitzhak Rabin “The Yom Kippur war was not fought … to threaten the existence of Israel” — 1988 - Rabin indicates the limited objectives of the Yom Kippur War of 1973.
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Quotation from Gideon Ezra “There are Arab citizens in the State of Israel. This is our biggest problem” — Oct. 15 2004 - Minister of Internal Security.
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Quotation from Chaim Weizmann “There are some hundred thousand negroes and for those there is no value” — May 20 1936 - President of the Zionist Executive, questioned by Arthur Ruppin on the circumstances of the Balfour Declaration of 1917.
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Quotation from Israel Zangwill “There is no Arab people … there is at best an Arab encampment” — 1920 - After having popularized Shaftesbury's formula on "the land without people", Zangwill, who never set foot in Palestine, participates in the alternative fairy tale, Palestinians are passing nomads.
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Quotation from Vladimir Jabotinsky “There is no choice: the Arabs must make room for the Jews in Eretz Yisrael” — Nov. 9 1939 - A Zionist leader with a fascist leaning, for a long time opposed to the idea of the necessity and even usefulness of a transfer, even if not forced. At the end of the 1930s his views changed. In the notes of a meeting with Shlomo Klinger, a member of the presidency of the New Zionist Organization, he writes.
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Quotation from Benyamin Netanyahu “There is no question … that Saddam is … advancing toward the development of nuclear weapons” — Sep. 12 2002 - In front of the Committee on Government Reform of the House of Representatives in Washington, D.C., lying to push for the invasion of Iraq.
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Quotation from Yoram
Ben Porath “There is no Zionism ...without the eviction of the Arabs and the expropriation of their lands” — Jul. 14 1972 - President of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, has the authority to recall what Zionism is all about.
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Quotation from Naftali Bennett “There is not going to be a Palestinian state within the tiny land of Israel” — Jan. 7 2013 - Minister of Education, Jerusalem and Diaspora Affairs.
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