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Quotation from Mordechai Ben Hillel Ha Cohen “There is not in Palestine any other part that can compete with us culturally” — Aug. 8 1935 - Zionist journalist, co-founder of Tel Aviv, expressing his contempt for the Palestinians.
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Quotation from Collectif “There must be as few Arabs on as few lands as possible” — Dec. 26 1949 - Text of the (Israeli) Refugee Resettlement Agency about the Palestinians who remained on the soil of Palestine, now Israel.
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Quotation from Ezer Weizman “There was never a danger of extermination” — Mar. 29 1972 - General, Chief of Operations, IDF General Staff, about the 6 Day War.
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Quotation from Arieh Biro “There was no choice but to kill them. This is not such a big deal” — Aug. 21 1995 - Former Israeli Brigadier General, talking about the massacres of the 1956 Sinai War.
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Quotation from Chaim Herzog “There was no danger of annihilation. Israeli headquarters never believed in this danger” — Apr. 4 1972 - Former head of military intelligence, and future president of Israel, about the 6-day war.
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Quotation from Golda Meir “There were no such thing as Palestinians ...They did not exist” — June 15 1969 - Prime Minister of Israel, the Palestinians have never existed.
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Quotation from Ariel Sharon “There's no need to hide behind security arguments” — Apr. 4 2005 - In a preparatory meeting for a racist "family reunification" law, justifying the law that prohibits spouses of Palestinians in Israel from acquiring Israeli citizenship.
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Quotation from Chaim Weizmann “There's nothing more humiliating than 'our' Jerusalem” — Dec. 1918 - Talking about the ultra-Orthodox neighborhoods in a letter to his wife, shortly after his arrival in Jerusalem.
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Quotation from Yehiel Hazan “These Arabs are like worms” — Dec. 13 2004 - Knesset Member of Parliament, Likud, expressing his stupid contempt for earthworms.
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Quotation from Yitzhak Shamir “They are like grasshoppers compared to us” — Mar. 31 1988 - Former Lehi terrorist, then Prime Minister, in a speech from Herodion to Jewish settlers.
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Quotation from Gueorgui Plekhanov “They are Zionists afraid of seasickness” — 1905 - Russian Marxist leader, about the Bundists, in an interview by Vladimir Jabotinsky.
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Quotation from Asher Ginsberg “They deal with the Arabs with hostility and cruelty” — 1891 - In his book The Truth from Palestine
(renamed A truth from the Land of Israel
in 1953), commenting on his first visit to Palestine in 1891.
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Quotation from Yitzhak Frankenthal “They have been ready to make peace with us; it is we who are unwilling” — Jul. 27 2002 - Founder of the Bereaved Parents Forum, whose son was killed by Hamas in July 1994.
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Quotation from Shukri Al-`Asali “They have begun setting up their political aims and establishing their imaginary government” — 1910 - Damascus deputy in the Ottoman parliament, kaymakam (governor) of Nazareth, describes in the newspaper Al Karmil
(Haifa) the mechanics of the state embryo placement, seven years before the Balfour declaration.
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Quotation from Israel Zangwill “They have given nothing to Palestine and are not entitled to the rules of democracy” — 1919 - At a public meeting, talking about Palestinian Arabs.
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Quotation from Anat Berko “They might be anti-Semites, but they’re on our side” — Feb. 21 2019 - Likud deputy, justifying relations with anti-democratic and identity-based regimes in Europe.
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Quotation from Anis Sayegh “They said their ally Britain would resolves the issues” — 2009 - Publisher of the Palestinian Encyclopedia, about the call of Prince Abdullah and the Imam of Yemen to end the 1936 strike.
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Quotation from Teddy Kollek “They were and remain second - and third-class citizen” — Oct. 10 1990 - Mayor of Jerusalem (including East Jerusalem) from 1965 to 1993, interviewed by the daily newspaper Maariv after the assassinations of the esplanade of the mosques.
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Quotation from Menachem Begin “They would repudiate everything we did and pretend that we were dissident elements” — Nov. 1948 - Leader of the terrorist organization Irgun, declaration in the United States during his visit to the United States at the end of November 1948.
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Quotation from Ovadia Yossef “They’re stupid. Their religion is as ugly as they are” — Dec. 2009 - Former Sephardic Chief Rabbi, about Muslims, during a Saturday evening sermon.
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Quotation from Ariel Sharon “This block will always remain a part of Israel” — Jul. 22 2005 - During a visit to the illegal colony of Ariel.
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Quotation from Golda Meir “This country exists as the fulfillment of a promise made by God Himself” — Oct. 15 1971 - Prime Minister at the time, Golda Meir, although an atheist, makes her religion when it comes to justifying Israel.
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Quotation from Albert Einstein “This instinctive feeling of lack of kinship is referable to the law of the conservation of energy” — 1920 - Alas, showing his agreement - tinged with racialism - with a postulate of Zionism, the 'inevitability' of the separation of the Jews from the nations as a whole.
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Quotation from Ahmed Qurei “This is an apartheid solution to put the Palestinian in cantons” — Jan. 8 2004 - Then Prime Minister of the Palestinian Authority, conscious that Israel only wants one apartheid state.
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Quotation from Tzipi Hotovely “This land is ours. All of it is ours. We did not come here to apologise for that” — May 21 2015 - Deputy Foreign Minister of the Netanyahu government, in a speech to Israeli diplomats.
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Quotation from Dov Weissglas “This whole package called the Palestinian state ...has been removed from our agenda” — Oct. 6 2004 - Advisor to Sharon, Ariel, in an interview with Haaretz.
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Quotation from Mattityahu Peled “Those stories about the huge danger ... had never been considered” — June 3 1972 - General, from the IDF General Staff, about the 6-day war.
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Quotation from Avigdor Lieberman “Those who are against us ...we need to pick up an ax and cut off his head” — Mar. 8 2015 - Talking about Palestinians "citizens" of Israel, during an election rally.
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Quotation from David Ben Gurion “Those who fled from the country, who told them to flee” — 1972 - In a pure senile denial of the existence of the Palestinians chased by him during the Nakba, in front of Israeli television.
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Quotation from Yehudi Menuhin “Those who live by the sword shall die by the sword” — May 5 1991 - Famous violinist and conductor. Excerpt from his speech at the Knesset for the reception of the Wolf Prize.
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Quotation from Uri Dan “Those who will reject him as defense minister will get him as prime minister” — 1973 - Journalist, admirer of Ariel Sharon, at the time when the latter, seeing his military career blocked, founded the Likud.
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Quotation from Steve Israel “Those Zionist shlihim … want to succeed only to a certain extent.” — 2000 - Educator of the Jewish Zionist Education Department.
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Quotation from Asher Ginsberg “Title missing” — 1890 - Realizing that real Zionism is going to the front lines of war, both internally and externally.
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Quotation from Unidentified / Non identifié “To analyse how the German army operated in the Warsaw ghetto” — Jan. 25 2002 - As a "senior officer of the IDF", he is inspired by the Nazis to say how to treat the Palestinians.
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Quotation from David Ben Gurion “To discuss ...the Jews in Germany only from the aspect of their immigration to Palestine” — Dec. 31 1935 - Describing the task of the Jewish Agency's commission in charge of German Jewish problems.
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Quotation from Moshe Dayan “To expand the borders here. Let no Jew say that the process has ended” — Jul. 7 1968 - Then Minister of Defense, announcing the Zionist program in the aftermath of the occupation of the West Bank and Gaza.
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Quotation from UN / ONU “To gain control of the area allotted to the Jewish State and … blocs … outside those borders” — 1990 - Indicates that the Dalet Plan (1948) was already aimed at 'controlling' the Palestinian territories beyond the space allocated for a 'Jewish state' in 1947.
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Quotation from David Ben Gurion “To get it, we must return to the borders before 1967” — Mar. 25 1971 - In an interview by John McCook Roots for Saturday Review
, in a realistic vision of the future of the "Jewish State".
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Quotation from Yitzhak Navon “To have as much land as possible and as few Arabs as possible” — 1984 - One of the leaders of the Mapaï party, who became "moderate" President of Israel (1978-1983) during the 1984 election campaign.
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Quotation from Benjamin Cohen “To insure peace for the residents of Galilee. These lies worthy of Goebbels make me mad” — June 8 1982 - Professor of History at Tel Aviv University, in a letter to the French historian Pierre Vidal-Naquet.
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Quotation from Yitzhak Shamir “To keep Eretz Israel … for the Jewish people, all of whom will be gathered” — Nov. 1990 - Statement by former Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir, at a memorial service for former Likud leaders in Tel Aviv, November 1990.
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Quotation from JEWISH CHRONICLE “To know the habits and dispositions of the animals, and to be sure that the cages were secure” — 1921 - An organ of British Judaism, uses the zoological language of the colonizers when speaking of the Palestinians following the anti-Zionist riots in Jaffa in 1921, which resulted in deaths on both sides.
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Quotation from Mustafa Barghouti “To react with weapons. This would be a major mistake. But Arafat will go to the guerrillas” — Oct. 31 2000 - Palestinian leader of al-Mubadara, in an interview with French journalist Sylvain Cypel.
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Quotation from Danny Danon “To strengthen the settlements in Judea and Samaria, in the Negev and in the Galilee” — Mar. 18 2013 - Minister of Science, Technology and Space.
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Quotation from Menahem Ussishkin “To take a part of the Arabs and transfer and settle them … is as moral as can be” — June 12 1938 - Head of the Executive Committee of the World Zionist Organization, at a meeting of the Jewish Agency's executive committee, advocates that the British should proceed with the expulsion of 60,000 Palestinian families.
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Quotation from Vladimir Jabotinsky “To take the typical Yid of today and to imagine his diametrical opposite” — 1905 - In his tribute to Theodor Herzl.
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Quotation from David et Ben-Zvi Ben Gurion “Tolerance and generosity unparalleled in the history of the Christian peoples of the period” — 1918 - In a book in which they totally ignore the contemporary Armenian genocide.
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Quotation from Shlomo Lavi “Transfer of Arabs out of the country ...is one of the most just, moral and correct things” — Aug. 1937 - Labour leader, delegate to the 12th, 17th, 18th, 19th and 20th Zionist Congresses, then member of the Knesset, at the 20th Congress.
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Quotation from Drew Pearson “Truman cracked down... to swing the UN vote for the partition of Palestine” — Feb. 9 1948 - American journalist, reporting on a few behind-the-scenes operations to push through - on the third attempt - the partition resolution of Palestine of November 29, 1947.
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Quotation from Berl Katznelson “Unable to fight even for a few days for small things like Hebrew schools” — Dec. 1940 - Publisher of the daily Davar, violently attacks Polish Jews in the territories conquered by the Soviet Union, showing where his priorities are heading.
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