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Quotation from Benyamin Netanyahu “We see the leaders in Gaza calling for the killing of all Jews around the world” — Jul. 6 2016 - At a press conference in Kigali with Paul Kagame, where he replays the false propaganda about a new Jewish genocide.
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Quotation from David Ben Gurion “We shall abolish partition and expand to the whole of Palestine” — 1938 - In a note to the Jewish Agency.
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Quotation from David Ben Gurion “We shall fight the White Paper as though there was no war” — Sep. 1939 - Pronounced by Ben Gurion at the beginning of World War II.
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Quotation from Moshe Kahlon “We should annex all the territories that same day” — Apr. 28 2011 - Minister of Finance, then Minister of Communications, at a meeting with Likud youth on what Israel should do if the Palestinians declare their independence.
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Quotation from Yitzhak Ben-Zvi “We should have demanded that workers be employed without regard to national and religious” — 1914 - “Socialist" Zionist, leader of Poalei Zion, who became the second president of Israel in 1952, in a letter to the editorial board of Haachdut.
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Quotation from Ayelet Shaked “We should manage the conflict and not give up on any centimetre of land” — Feb. 3 2015 - Minister of Justice of the Netanyahu government, in a pre-election discussion. In coded language, "perfection" is the expulsion of the Palestinians.
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Quotation from Moshe Dayan “We should transform the Bedouins into an urban proletariat” — 1963 - Then Minister of Agriculture, imagining the fate of the Bedouins in Haaretz.
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Quotation from Ehud Barak “We still live in a modern and prosperous villa in the middle of the jungle” — Feb. 11 1996 - Then Foreign Minister Ehud Barak, addressing the American Zionists by recycling a colonial metaphor to justify Israel's violence.
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Quotation from Nissim Dahan “We want to Judaize the Wadi Ara area ... The state wants to put this place in order” — 2008 - Head of a local council appointed by the Ministry of the Interior, speaking about the 'Judaization' of the Palestinian majority region of Wadi Ara (Great Triangle).
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Quotation from David Ben Gurion “We were a company of conquistadores” — 1954 - Evoking the beginnings of Zionist colonization in 1917.
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Quotation from Haïm Bar-Lev “We were not threatened with genocide on the eve of the six-day war” — June 5 1967 - General, Chief of General Staff, IDF, talking about the 6 Day War.
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Quotation from Moshe Sharett “We will ensure an absolute Hebrew majority in a parliamentary regime” — June 9 1938 - During an executive meeting of the Jewish Agency, stresses the importance of a reduction in the number of Palestinians during a period of transition to absolute Jewish rule.
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Quotation from Chaim Weizmann “We will establish ourselves in Palestine whether you like it or not” — 1920 - In a speech to non-Zionist Jews entitled "On the Beauty of the Jewish Revival", he said.
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Quotation from Martin Buber “We will have to face the reality that Israel is neither innocent, nor redemptive” — Mar. 1949 - Jewish philosopher, addressing David Ben Gurion in March 1949. The translation indicates 'diaspora' when it is about exile.
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Quotation from Efraim Eitam “We will have to kill them all” — May 24 2004 - General infamous for his hyper-violence. He was proposed in 2020 by Minister of Higher Education Ze'ev Elkin to head the Yad Vashem memorial.
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Quotation from Ze'ev Elkin “We will try to apply sovereignty over the maximum” — Mar. 20 2013 - Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs.
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Quotation from Fayçal Ben Hussein al-Hachimi “We will wish the Jews a most hearty welcome home” — Mar. 3 1919 - Said "Faisal of Arabia", in a letter - written by T.E. Lawrence - in favor of Zionist projects, sent to Felix Frankfurter the day after the Paris conference.
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Quotation from Yitzhak Rabin “We would like this to be an entity which is less than a state” — Oct. 5 1995 - Speech to the Knesset, defines his Bantustan project.
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Quotation from David Ben Gurion “We would not have taken on this war merely for the purpose of enjoying this tiny state” — Aug. 16 1948 - Develops his visions in an interview with Times Magazine (read in full!).
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Quotation from David Ben Gurion “Well done, now give it back to them” — June 7 1967 - The day of the conquest of al-Khalil / Hebron in June 1967, according to the testimony of Louis Nir.
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Quotation from Uri Lubrani “Were there no Arab students, perhaps it would be better” — Apr. 4 1961 - Ben Gurion's Advisor for Arab Affairs from 1960 to 1963.
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Quotation from David Ben Gurion “Were we to face the Palestinians alone, everything would be all right” — Mar. 14 1948 - In a letter to Moshe Sharett.
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Quotation from Uri Ariel “West of the Jordan River there will only be one state and that is the state of Israel” — Mar. 10 2014 - Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, during a commemorative speech.
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Quotation from Levi Eshkol “We’d send all the Arabs out to Brazil” — June 15 1967 - Then Prime Minister, during an inter-ministerial meeting.
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Quotation from Ariel Sharon “We’ll make them a pastrami sandwich … nobody, will be able to tear it apart” — 1973 - In response, in 1973, to journalist Winston Churchill, grandson of the Prime Minister, asking him what to do with the Palestinians.
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Quotation from Frederik De Klerk “What apartheid wanted … is ... what everybody now says is the solution for Israel and Palestine” — May 16 2003 - Former President of South Africa, in an interview with Haaretz.
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Quotation from Desmond Tutu “What is happening in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank could describe” — Dec. 24 1989 - South African Archbishop, during a Christmas visit to Jerusalem.
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Quotation from Ze’ev Boim “What is it about Islam ...and Palestinians ..? cultural deprivation? genetic defect?” — Feb. 24 2004 - Deputy Minister of Defense.
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Quotation from Benyamin Netanyahu “What should I do with them?" and the mufti replied: Burn them” — Oct. 21 2015 - During a speech before the World Jewish Congress, he cleared Hitler's name by inventing that the Mufti is the real author of the genocide of the Jews of Europe.
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Quotation from Uri Elitzur “What’s so horrifying about understanding that the entire Palestinian people is the enemy” — June 30 2014 - Chief of Staff, writer and close advisor to Netanyahu, spokesperson for the settlers, in a 2002 text with genocidal connotations proudly published in June 2014 by Ayelet Shaked shortly before she was appointed Minister of Justice.
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Quotation from David Ben Gurion “When Jalla falls into hell I will not be among the mourners” — Jul. 11 1936 - In his diary. Has no anger against the Palestinians, only cold considerations.
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Quotation from Communist International “When...workers...create separate organizations for themselves...they participate in colonization” — 1922 - Newly created, erects a principle contrary to those of the KKL/JNF.
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Quotation from Bezalel Smotrich “Who loves those who love him and hates those who hate him – doesn’t turn the other cheek” — Mar. 6 2017 - Vice-President of the Israeli Parliament, explaining the "substance" of the draft fundamental law "Israel, Nation State of the Jewish People".
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Quotation from Moshe Dayan “Who needs a Jewish Vatican” — June 7 1967 - Responding to the Chief Rabbi of the army Shlomo Goren who had called to blow up the Dome of the Rock.
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Quotation from Meir Sheetrit “Who needs them [Falashas] ? They are all Christians” — Aug. 4 2007 - Interior Minister, flattering anti-black racism, about the prospect of more Falashas immigrating to Israel.
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Quotation from Jacob Klatzkin “Whoever calls the foreign land his Fatherland is a traitor to the Jewish people” — 1921 - Editor-in-chief from 1909 to 1911 of Die Welt
, the official organ of German Zionism.
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Quotation from David Ben Gurion “Why are there so many Arabs? Why didn't you expel them” — Jul. 19 1948 - On his first visit to Nazareth.
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Quotation from David Ben Gurion “Why is it forbidden to transfer an Arab from the Hebron area to Transjordan” — Nov. 1 1936 - During a meeting preceding the Peel Commission, proposing a transfer of Palestinians to the Transjordan (considered as part of Israel's Lands).
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Quotation from Theodor Herzl “With England as a starting point we may be sure that the Zionist idea will soar further” — 1904 - Shortly before his death, repeating that England is the key to Zionism.
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Quotation from Judah Magnes “With partition a new Balkan is made” — Jul. 18 1937 - President of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and advocate for a binational state, in the aftermath of the British proposal for partitioning.
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Quotation from Yosef Weitz “Without ... transfer … we will not be able to solve our question by land buying” — Feb. 13 1941 - Director of the Jewish National Fund (KKL/JNF), in his diary dated February 13, 1941.
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Quotation from David Ben Gurion “Without Hebrew labor, there will be no [Jewish] homeland” — Dec. 10 1935 - Letter to Eichenberg.
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Quotation from John Lawson Stoddard “You are a people without a country; there is a country without a people. Be united” — 1897 - American traveler and popular writer, Christian Zionist, author after Lord Shaftesbury, of the formula "a land without people for a people without land".
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Quotation from Davis Trietsch “You do not get ten million Jews into a land of 25,000 Km2” — 1899 - Zionist leader favouring the colonization of Cyprus and El-Arish, in a letter to Theodor Herzl.
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Quotation from Amos Oz “You have two peoples with their backs against the wall” — Mar. 1 2002 - Taking up the classic Zionist comparison between Palestinians and Nazis, for 1948 and the present.
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Quotation from Ovadia Yossef “You must send missiles to them and annihilate them” — Apr. 12 2001 - Former Sephardic Chief Rabbi of Israel, during a sermon.
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Quotation from Avraham Yehoshua “You will remain a minority, as the Basques are in Spain” — Nov. 1985 - Israeli novelist, laying the Palestinians the equation accept your minority status or leave.
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Quotation from David Ben Gurion “Zionism ... cannot initiate an irresponsible battle against Hitler” — Aug. 27 1935 - Writing about the boycott of Nazi Germany in the Davar daily newspaper.
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Quotation from Vladimir Jabotinsky “Zionism a colonizing adventure stands or falls on on the question of armed force” — 1925 - In the text "The Iron Law" of 1925.
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Quotation from Shimon Peres “Zionism is a path, not an outcome” — Apr. 29 1998 - Explaining in his own way that Zionism is a project that never comes to fruition.
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