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Quotation from Yariv Levin “At the end … whatever remains will be merely marginal appendage” — June 11 2013 - Minister of Tourism and Relations with the Knesset, spokesman for the government coalition.
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Quotation from David HaCohen “Attack Jewish housewives in the markets and smash the Arab eggs they had bought” — Nov. 15 1969 - Leader of the Mapai ("socialist" party), in a speech to the Mapai secretariat, referring to his student years in London (1919-1922) (reconstructed text).
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Quotation from Israel Zangwill “Be prepared either to drive out by the sword the tribes in possession as our forefathers did” — 1921 - Active member of the first Zionist congresses, in an autobiography that explains the reason for his break with Zionism in 1904.
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Quotation from Moshe Shohat “Bedouins are a bloodthirsty people who commit polygamy” — 2001 - Head of the "Educational Authority for Bedouins" created in 1981.
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Quotation from Menachem Begin “Begin described the Palestinians as ‘beasts walking on two legs” — June 25 1982 - The former terrorist, in a speech to the Knesset.
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Quotation from Menachem Begin “Believe me that the alternative is Treblinka” — June 5 1982 - Ex-terrorist, Likud leader, Prime Minister, explaining to some of his ministers that Lebanon must be invaded.
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Quotation from Yitzhak Rabin “Ben Gurion waved his hand in a gesture which said, "Drive them out!"” — Jul. 12 1948 - Commenting in his service book of July 12-13, 1948 on the way Ben Gurion gave the order to expel the Palestinians from Lydda.
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Quotation from Asher Ginsberg “Better to die in the Exile than … if that land is considered the 'homeland' of the Arabs” — 1920 - “National" writer of Russian origin, commenting on the proposals to make Palestine a large federation (with the Palestinians).
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Quotation from Ovadia Yossef “Blacks will study the Torah? [God said] let’s bring a tsunami and drown them” — Jul. 2005 - Former Sephardic Chief Rabbi of Israel, establishing a divine accounting during a Saturday evening sermon.
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Quotation from Theodor Herzl “Both the process of expropriation and the removal of the poor must be carried out discretely” — June 12 1895 - Herzl imagines the aftermath of the attribution of Palestine (by a great power) to the Zionist movement that he has not yet created...
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Quotation from Yitzhak Rabin “Break their bones” — Jan. 1988 - Former General turned Minister of Defense, gives informal instructions to army commanders about young Palestinian stone-throwers.
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Quotation from Winston Churchill “British civil administration should have succeeded in such a short time in alienating the whole country” — Aug. 31 1920 - Speaking of the unpopularity of the "mandate" attributed to the Europeans by the League, in a letter (not sent) to Lloyd George.
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Quotation from David Ben Gurion “But I say on behalf of the Jews that the Bible is our Mandate” — Jan. 7 1937 - Before the Peel Royal Commission.
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Quotation from Harry
Sacher “But if ... democracy were to be applied ..., the majority that would rule would be the arab majority” — 1919 - British Zionist leader, in an article for the Zionist Organization, in response to Woodrow Wilson's desire for democracy in war treaties.
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Quotation from Max Nordau “But there are Arabs in Palestine! I didn’t know that” — 1897 - Reactionary and elitist thinker, organizer of the first Zionist Congresses, addressing Theodor Herzl.
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Quotation from Moshe Sharett “But they do not return. And this is our policy: they do not return” — June 16 1948 - 2nd "moderate" president of Israel.
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Quotation from Yitzhak Gruenbaum “By bringing Yemenites, 70% of whom are sick, we are doing no good” — Jul. 1949 - Member of the Knesset, during the debate on the emigration of Yemeni Jews, in a speech mimicking the Nazi discourse on "lice-bitten Jews".
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Quotation from Chaim Weizmann “By Jewish immigration Palestine would ultimately become as Jewish as England is English” — Feb. 23 1919 - To US Secretary of State Lansing at the Paris Peace Conference.
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Quotation from Yitzhak Ginsburg “Can you take the liver of (a) non-Jew? The Torah would probably permit that” — Apr. 26 1996 - Originally from the USA, influential leader of one of the mystical currents of Judaism, the Derech Chaim movement.
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Quotation from Laurence Oliphant “Compelled to turn for the locality of the colony to Palestine, and for the colonists to the Jews” — 1880 - Writer and politician, dedicating his book to "Her Royal Highness" Queen Victoria "as a token of deep gratitude for the sympathy and cordial interest shown by Her Royal Highness in the author's efforts to promote the Jewish settlement of Palestine
".
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Quotation from David Ben Gurion “Complete transfer without compulsion … is hardly imaginable” — Oct. 15 1941 - In a memo titled "Contours of Zionist Politics", he wrote.
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Quotation from David Ben Gurion “Concepts of ours and not ours ...lose their meaning during war” — Feb. 1948 - Addressing the leaders of the Jewish National Fund in early February.
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Quotation from Desmond Tutu “Conditions we experienced in South Africa under the racist system of Apartheid” — Apr. 9 2010 - South African Archbishop, in a letter to Emily Schaeffer for Berkeley students.
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Quotation from Yitzhak Rabin “Conditions which would attract natural and voluntary migration of the refugees” — Mar. 16 1983 - Explaining his method of ethnically cleansing the occupied territories without the world shouting.
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Quotation from David Ben Gurion “Consider … a Jewish state in a part ...while reaffirming our right to the whole of Palestine” — Jul. 8 1947 - Before the UN commission (UNSCOP) that came to investigate in Palestine.
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Quotation from Yitzhak Ben-Zvi “Contradiction should be resolved by relinquishing the socialist principle in favour of the national” — 1912 - Future 2nd President of Israel, speaking about the left-wing split of the Poale Zion group, which supported the class struggle.
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Quotation from Arthur Lourie “Convince the world that not all of these formerly lived in Israeli territory” — 1950 - Personal secretary of Chaim Weizmann who became Consul General in New York, in a letter to Walter Eitan, Israeli Foreign Ministry, proposes to minimize the number of refugees.
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Quotation from Yeshayahu Leibowitz “Declarations to that effect have been … coloured statements or deliberate lies” — Nov. 30 1973 - Historian and moralist, commenting on the situation after the Yom Kippur War, stating that Israel has never sought peace.
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Quotation from Ayelet Shaked “Do you hope he'll be pounding the Arabs hard with bombs? Laughter "Yes"” — Jan. 2012 - Minister of Justice. On Channel 2, answering the question " " When your husband the pilot is at the controls of his plane, would you like him to violently bomb the Arabs?.
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Quotation from Baruch Goldstein “Doctor Baruch Kapal Goldstein, blessed be the memory of the righteous and holy man” — Feb. 27 1994 - Tombstone of Baruch Goldstein, who killed 29 people and wounded 125 in the al-Ibrahimi Mosque in Hebron / al-Khalil on February 25, 1994.
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Quotation from Edward Said “Drop by drop tactic in which one or two houses are demolished daily” — Jul. 23 1998 - A great Palestinian intellectual, opposed to the Oslo Accords, explaining the "originality" of daily ethnic cleansing in the Zionist way.
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Quotation from Chaim Weizmann “Each country can absorb only a limited number of Jews, if she doesn’t want disorders” — Mar. 1912 - Future President of the World Zionist Congress and then the first President of the State of Israel, in front of a Berlin audience.
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Quotation from Menachem Begin “Eretz Israel will be restored to the people of Israel. All of it. And for Ever” — Nov. 30 1947 - Leader of the terrorist group Irgun (later Prime Minister), the day after the vote on UN Resolution 181.
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Quotation from Eli Yishai “Even if they fire ... into the sea, we must … destroy 100 houses” — Feb. 2 2009 - Then Deputy Prime Minister and deputy of the Shas religious party, openly advocating the escalation of violence.
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Quotation from Bertrand Russell “Every expansion ...to discover how much more aggression the world will tolerate” — Jan. 31 1970 - In his last message, read at the International Conference of Parliamentarians in Cairo.
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Quotation from David Ben Gurion “Every school child knows that there is no such thing in history as a final arrangement” — Dec. 3 1947 - Writes in his diary, four days after the 1947 UN partition plan and its "acceptance" by Israel.
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Quotation from Ariel Sharon “Everything that's grabbed will be in our hands” — Nov. 15 1998 - Ariel Sharon, then Minister of Foreign Affairs, at a meeting of the far-right Tsomet party.
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Quotation from George W. Bush “Expect that any final status agreement will ...reflect these realities” — Apr. 14 2004 - In an official letter to Ariel Sharon, expresses the agreement of the United States to endorse the results of colonization.
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Quotation from Golda Meir “For me the supreme morality is the the jewish people has a right to exist” — 1969 - In a Mapai meeting to support Israel's right to colonize the occupied territories.
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Quotation from Chaim Herzog “For the Jews of this land there cannot be any partner” — 1972 - Nine years before his election as President of Israel, summarizes Israeli diplomacy.
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Quotation from Ehud Olmert “From a struggle against `occupation' …. to a struggle for one-man-one-vote” — Nov. 13 2003 - Member of the Sharon minister’s office, in an interview with Haaretz.
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Quotation from Shmuel Tolkovsky “From us a minimally human approach could have been expected” — 1913 - From the mochav of Rehovot, talking about the HaShomer militia.
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Quotation from Edward Said “Full view of nightly TV audiences, has performed such miracles of detailed sadism” — Oct. 1 2002 - Palestinian-American intellectual, making an observation whose deep roots he has also analyzed.
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Quotation from Moshe Feiglin “Gaza and its suburbs will be rebuilt as Israeli touristic and commercial sites” — Aug. 5 2014 - Leader of Manhigut Yehudit (Jewish Leadership), an emanation of the Likud.
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Quotation from Yosef Weitz “Given the massive immigration from the Orient … There are indeed grounds for anxiety” — Sep. 19 1950 - Director of the KKL/JNF, expresses in his diary his racist fear of Oriental Jews.
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Quotation from Danny Danon “Giving up most of Judea… the current Likud leadership will not accept that” — Sep. 18 2013 - Minister of Science, Technology and Space.
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Quotation from Ovadia Yossef “God regrets having created these Ishmaelites [Arabs]” — Aug. 5 2000 - Former Sephardic Chief Rabbi of Israel, religious leader of the Shas party.
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Quotation from Ovadia Yossef “Goyim were born only to serve us” — Oct. 2010 - Sephardic Chief Rabbi of Israel, during his Saturday night sermon, on different dates.
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Quotation from John Bagot Glubb “Has the objective been to remove a nation from its country and to introduce another race” — 1967 - British Commander of the Arab Legion from 1941 to 1956 serving British and Jordanian interests.
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Quotation from George Curzon “He contemplates a Jewish State, a Jewish nation, a subordinate population of Arabs” — Jan. 26 1919 - Secretary of Foreign Affairs, former Viceroy of India, President of the Council, commenting on Chaim Weizmann's "Jewish Commonwealth under British Trusteeship".
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