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Quotation from Kurt Blumenfeld “Under no circumstance does a Jew have the right to represent the affairs of another people” — 1922 - German Zionist leader, advising (Jewish) Minister Rathenau (assassinated by the Nazis in April 1922) in the early days of the Weimar Republic.
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Quotation from David Ben Gurion “Under no circumstances must we touch land belonging to fellahs” — 1920 - Advocates peaceful methods of colonization at a time when Jews are only 10% of the population of Palestine.
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Quotation from Chaim Weizmann “Under Solomon it became an empire. Who knows ? C’est le premier pas qui coûte” — Jul. 7 1937 - In a letter to Arthur Balfour's niece, Amy Paterson.
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Quotation from Amos Oz “Victimhood entitles its owners to a moral exemption” — 1987 - In a collection of essays. He ironically mocks Menachem Begin and his justifications for the invasion of Lebanon in 1982.
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Quotation from Arthur Balfour “View with favour the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people” — Nov. 2 1917 - Balfour Declaration.
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Quotation from David Ben Gurion “War will also bring in its wake a great change in the distribution of the Arab population” — Apr. 6 1948 - Speaking to the Zionist Action Committee, said that the war and the depopulation of the Palestinians will not stop at the borders of the partition plan.
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Quotation from Gilad Erdan “Was it so boring … that this video needs to receive such exposure” — Apr. 10 2018 - Minister of the "Ministry of Strategic Affairs", in charge of slander and repression against the BDS movement, about a video showing Israeli snipers rejoicing over the killings and mutilations they commit at the border of the Gaza Strip.
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Quotation from Theodor Herzl “Watch out, Yid. Zionism might proceed like William Tell” — Oct. 15 1897 - In his weekly magazine, Die Welt, attacks in violent and contemptuous - not to say racist - terms the anti-Zionist "Mauschel" (pejorative term, rendered in English by Yid), to which he opposes the Zionist Jew - such as himself -.
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Quotation from David Ben Gurion “We and they want the same thing. We both want Palestine” — May 19 1936 - Shortly after the beginning of the great Palestinian revolt, during a meeting of the Mapaï party, clearly expressing the stakes of colonization a homeland "for them" or "for us".
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Quotation from David Ben Gurion “We appeal … to the Arab inhabitants of the State of Israel to preserve peace” — May 14 1948 - Excerpt from the text of the declaration of independence read by Ben Gurion on the afternoon of May 14, 1948, calling for "preserving peace" while hundreds of thousands of Palestinians were killed or expelled.
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Quotation from Aharon David Gordon “We are a parasitic people. We have no roots in the soil, there is no ground beneath our feet” — 1920 - Zionist ideologue pronouncing (for other Jews) the return to the land, expressing his contempt for the Jewish diaspora.
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Quotation from Silvan Shalom “We are all against a Palestinian state” — May 18 2012 - Interior Minister in charge of 'negotiations' with the Palestinians in 2015, talking to Likud activists in 2012.
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Quotation from Israel Hess “We are all obligated to carry out genocide” — Feb. 26 1980 - Rabbi of Bar-Ilan University, in an article on the obligation to "exterminate Amalek". The article caused no protest but the rabbi had to resign later on.
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Quotation from Yeshayahu Leibowitz “We are already behaving … in the same way as the Nazis did” — Feb. 5 1988 - Israeli Orthodox scientist, moralist and historian, compares Israel's behavior in the occupied territories to that of the Nazis outside Germany.
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Quotation from Arthur Ruppin “We are bound in each case. . . to remove the peasants who cultivated the land” — May 30 1930 - An important Zionist figure, creator of Brit Shalom, in favor of a bi-national state AND of a transfer of Palestinians to Syria,.
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Quotation from David Ben Gurion “We are conquerors of the land facing an iron wall” — Dec. 1922 - At the 3rd convention of Ahdut Ha'avoda in Haifa in December 1922.
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Quotation from Moshe Smilansky “We are dealing here with a semi-savage people, which has extremely primitive concepts” — 1914 - Activist settler, presented as a supporter of an agreement with the Palestinians, revealing his deep racism.
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Quotation from Shimon Peres “We are disengaging from Gaza because of demography” — Aug. 9 2005 - Explains a fundamental reason for Israel's "disengagement" from Gaza.
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Quotation from David
Ben Gurion “We are in duty bound to fight against the spirit of the Levant” — Oct. 5 1965 - Interviewed by Robert Moskin of Look Magazine, Ben Gurion expresses his absolute contempt for the Mizrahi Jews.
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Quotation from Moshe Dayan “We are not obliged to fix the limits of the State.” — Aug. 10 1967 - Paving the way for all annexations in the aftermath of the Six Day War.
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Quotation from Tzipi Hotovely “We are opposed to a Palestinian state” — Dec. 31 2012 - Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Netanyahu government of 2015.
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Quotation from Elyakim Haetzni “We are taking our soldiers and policemen to carry out a pogrom” — Mar. 18 2004 - Former member of the Knesset, from the colony of Kiryat Arba.
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Quotation from Ariel Sharon “We are withdrawing from Gaza ...where there was no chance of establishing a Jewish majority” — June 30 2005 - Speech at the "Cesarea 2005" conference, explaining the reasons for the redeployment out of Gaza.
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Quotation from Uri Ariel “We can and will market thousands of [settlement] apartments” — Aug. 12 2013 - Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development.
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Quotation from Golda Meir “We cannot forgive them for forcing us to kill their children” — Sep. 1973 - In an interview, expresses the baseline of the most despicable Zionist racism.
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Quotation from Yitzhak Rabin “We cannot keep having this mixture of Jews and Arabs” — Nov. 20 1994 - In the aftermath of a Hamas attack in Tel Aviv.
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Quotation from Menahem Ussishkin “We cannot start the Jewish state ... of which the Arabs ... constitute almost half” — June 12 1938 - Delegate of Moscow to the first Zionist Congress, President of the Jewish National Fund.
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Quotation from David Ben Gurion “We could accomplish our aim of cleansing the Galilee” — 1948 - From an Israeli government protocol [that would have been] translated from Hebrew by Israel Shahak.
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Quotation from Moshe Katsav “We did an injustice to the Ethiopian population by bringing them to the country” — May 3 2006 - President of Israel -coming from Iran-, in a commentary on violence in some sectors of society.
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Quotation from David Ben Gurion “We do not fit the general pattern of humanity” — 1950 - In a speech in 1950 exalting the exceptionalism of the "Jewish people”.
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Quotation from David Ben Gurion “We do not recognize any form of absolute ownership over any country” — 1930 - Explaining in 1930 his "socialist" conception of the right to colonization in the form of a pro domo plea.
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Quotation from David Ben Gurion “We do not suggest that we announce now our final aim which is far reaching” — Oct. 13 1936 - In his diary (Zichronot), about a speech held on October 13th.
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Quotation from David Ben Gurion “We don't belong to that Jewish people. We don't want to be that sort of Jew” — Aug. 1939 - During the XX Zionist congress held in Geneva one month before World War II.
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Quotation from David Ben Gurion “We don't need agreement with the Arabs in order to keep the peace in Palestine” — June 9 1936 - In a letter to the executive of the Jewish Agency, explains its concept of "peace", a truce in view of a new war.
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Quotation from Chaim Weizmann “We don’t want Tel Aviv to become another low-grade ghetto” — Oct. 1938 - In the autumn issue of the official British publication New Judea, reporting on a statement made in Poland.
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Quotation from Yitzhak Pundak “We had to destroy them, otherwise we would have had Arabs here” — May 21 2004 - Brigadier General, explaining 56 years after the events that it was nothing more than ethnic cleansing.
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Quotation from Moshe Sharett “We have come to conquer a country from people inhabiting it” — Feb. 12 1914 - Future second Prime Minister of Israel, later described as a "moderate", in a letter sent from Istanbul to his friends in Tel Aviv.
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Quotation from Dov Weissglas “We have in our hands a first-ever American statement that they will be part of Israel” — Oct. 8 2004 - Ariel Sharon's adviser, in an interview by Haaretz, explains in substance that the withdrawal from Gaza is the monkey's money for the USA to turn a blind eye to the colonization of the West Bank.
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Quotation from Chaim Weizmann “We have never based the Zionist movement on Jewish suffering in Russia or in any other land” — May 20 1917 - Then president of the English Zionist federation, talks about the effects that the fall of tsarism and anti-Jewish oppression in Russia could have on the preparations for the Balfour Declaration (during the period before the October Revolution).
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Quotation from David Ben Gurion “We have no connection with the Arabs” — Oct. 1 1952 - During meetings in his office with senior Israeli officials.
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Quotation from Martin Van Creveld “We have the capability to take the world down with us” — Apr. 27 2002 - Military historian and professor at the University of Jerusalem, in an interview designed to "get the message out" about the Israeli nuclear threat, officially denied, should any state challenge ethnic cleansing.
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Quotation from Vladimir Jabotinsky “We Jews have nothing in common with what is called the Orient, thank God” — 1926 - Father of the revisionist movement, explaining (like most of the colonists of the time) that the Jews have nothing to do with the East.
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Quotation from Menachem Begin “We must be honest with ourselves. We decided to attack him” — Aug. 21 1982 - Former terrorist, Prime Minister of Israel at the time of this statement on the Israeli Six Day War.
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Quotation from David Ben Gurion “We must expel Arabs and take their place” — Oct. 5 1937 - Letter to his son Amos.
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Quotation from David Ben Gurion “We must have 100% Hebrew settlement, a 100% Hebrew farm, and 100% Hebrew port” — May 5 1936 - Explains the goal of "100% apartheid" in a meeting of the National Council of Yishuv.
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Quotation from Tzipi Hotovely “We need to demand sovereignty over all parts of Judea and Samaria” — Jul. 12 2012 - Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Netanyahu government in 2015.
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Quotation from Maurice Samuel “We needed the maximum number of Jews, in shambles, everywhere and everywhere” — 1953 - Zionist writer known for a famous racist "anti-goy" statement "You Gentiles" (1925) speaks of the "opening of the floodgates" to populate Israel as soon as possible after the ethnic cleansing of 1948.
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Quotation from Golda Meir “We now see that... can the number of Jews be diminished ...through love and freedom” — Jul. 17 1972 - Before the 75th Convention of the Zionist Organization of America.
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Quotation from World Zionist Organisation / Organisation sioniste mondiale “We owe it to ourselves to be cruel” — May 8 1922 - Expressing, in accordance with the central thesis of Zionism, what the Zionist policy from 1933 to 1945 would be about the anti-Semitic massacres in Europe.
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Quotation from Collectif “We reaffirm that the object of Judaism is not political nor national, but spiritual” — Jul. 11 1897 - Decision of the 8th Convention of American Rabbis, Montreal, July 6-11, 1997.
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