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Quotation from Theodor Herzl “Help me to reach land [Palestine] sooner and the revolt will end” — Aug. 8 1903 - In his discussions with the pogromist Vyacheslav Plehve, who doubted the Zionists' ability to attract the Jewish masses.
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Quotation from Abba Eban “Hereditary difference between the ...level of a person whose father lived in the jungle” — 1974 - Abba Eban, Foreign Minister of Israel, before the Israeli press.
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Quotation from Yosef Weitz “His opinion is that we must act ...as to transform the exodus of the Arabs into an established fact” — May 28 1948 - KKL-JNF leader in a meeting with newly appointed Foreign Minister Moshe Shertok (Sharett) to formalize the "transfer committee" to make the expulsion of Palestinians irreversible.
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Quotation from Menachem Begin “Hitler and his henchmen hide in a bunker deep beneath the surface” — Aug. 5 1982 - In a letter to Ronald Reagan, Menachem Begin compares Beirut to Berlin and Arafat to Hitler, claiming a "right to massacre".
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Quotation from Giora Redel “Hitler is one hundred percent correct in his ideology, except ...he's on the wrong side” — Apr. 2019 - Rabbi, head of the religious military school Bnei David, in a recording broadcast by Israel Channel 13 News.
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Quotation from Emil Ludwig “Hitler will be forgotten in a few years, he will have a beautiful monument in Palestine” — Apr. 1936 - Biographer of Jewish origin, known in the 1920s, now a Zionist, interviewed in the USA by a Zionist friend.
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Quotation from David Ben Gurion “Hitler … caused damage to the Jewish state, whose coming he did not foresee” — 1954 - Weighing, in retrospect, in his own way, the harm caused to the Jews by the genocide of the Jews of Europe.
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Quotation from David Ben Gurion “Hitler, more than he hurt the Jewish people … hurt the Jewish State” — 1964 - Explaining that the genocide of the Jews of Europe was less serious than the reduction in the number of European immigrants to Israel.
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Quotation from Joachim Prinz “Honest relationship of loyalty between a group-conscious Jewry and the German state” — June 21 1933 - An executive member of the German Zionist Federation, he left Germany for the USA in 1937 and took on the highest responsibilities in the world Zionist organizations.
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Quotation from Ovadia Yossef “How can you make peace with a snake” — Aug. 2000 - Ex-Sephardic Chief Rabbi of Israel (1973-1983), who became the spiritual leader” of the religious Shas party, in his Saturday evening sermon, about peace with the Palestinians.
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Quotation from Chaim Weizmann “I am certain that the world will judge the Jewish State by what it will do with the Arabs” — Nov. 28 1947 - On November 26, 1947, in New York, on the occasion of his 73rd birthday, Weizmann reassured the good consciences three days before the vote of the UN General Assembly. This did not prevent him from becoming the first president of Israel in the aftermath of the ethnic cleansing (Nakba) of 1948.
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Quotation from Theodor Herzl “I am in command only of youths, beggars ans sensation mongers” — Aug. 1897 - Giving in his diary his opinion on the delegates of the 1st Zionist congress that he convened.
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Quotation from Avraham Maman “I am not a racist and I have never been one, but” — 2004 - Councillor of Nazareth Illit, a so-called "city of development" created to encircle and suffocate the Palestinian city of Nazareth.
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Quotation from Israel Katz “I am opposed to a Palestinian state. It is unacceptable because of our rights to this land” — Jul. 11 2013 - Minister of Transportation.
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Quotation from Harry Truman “I am rather disgusted with the manner in which the Jews are approaching the refugee problem” — Apr. 11 1949 - President of the United States, in response to Mark Ethridge, President of the Palestine Conciliation Commission, in an inconsequential manifestation of mood….
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Quotation from Arthur Ruppin “I believe in the transfer of entire villages” — June 12 1938 - Leading Zionist planner at a Jewish Agency executive meeting.
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Quotation from Ze'ev Elkin “I certainly think a Palestinian state is no solution” — Jul. 29 2013 - Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs.
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Quotation from Asher Ginsberg “I did not manage to see even one man living solely from the fruit of his land” — 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 Gila Gamliel “I disagree with the word occupation” — Jul. 30 2013 - Minister for Senior Citizens.
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Quotation from Winston Churchill “I do not admit that the dog in the manger has the final right to the manger” — Mar. 12 1937 - In a testimony before the Peel Commission on Palestine, reveals the racist and "white supremacist" basis of his support for the Zionist project (the testimony was only published in 1982).
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Quotation from Yitzhak Rabin “I do not believe that Nasser wanted war” — Feb. 28 1968 - Then Chief of Staff of the army. Interview in the daily Le Monde.
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Quotation from Harry Truman “I do not have hundreds of thousands of Arabs among my constituents” — Nov. 10 1945 - President of the USA, in front of the Arab ambassadors.
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Quotation from Sigmund Freud “I do not think that Palestine could ever become a Jewish state” — Feb. 26 1930 - In response to a request for him to sign a petition condemning the Arab (Palestinian) riots of 1929 against Zionist colonization.
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Quotation from Edouard Drumont “I don't mind as long as that homeland is not mine” — 1900 - Founder of the newspaper La Libre Parole, antidreyfusard, nationalist and anti-Semitic, author of La France juive
(The Jewish France
, 1886), seeing a departure of Jews in Palestine in a positive light.
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Quotation from David Ben Gurion “I don’t know what Arab will agree that Palestine should belong to the Jews” — June 1919 - Addressing the Va'ad Zmani (temporary executive body of the Yishuv), asserting the incompatibility of Zionism with its Arab environment, while denying that the land is Arabic.
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Quotation from Haim Miller “I don’t sign orders to destroy the house of Jews, only of Arabs” — Feb. 7 1998 - Haredi vice-mayor of Jerusalem, acting as mayor in the absence of Ehut Olmert.
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Quotation from David Ben Gurion “I doubt if there is any Jewish community which has more thieves than the Polish ones” — Jul. 13 1949 - During a session of the "Knesset Committee for the Constitution, Law and Justice", he called Moroccan Jews "savages", but soon recovered as follows.
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Quotation from Martin Buber “I have accepted … the state of Israel, the form of the Jewish community arisen from the war” — 1958 - Zionist "leftist" philosopher, indicating the limits of his criticism of real Zionism.
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Quotation from Yosef Weitz “I have drawn up a list of Arab villages which in my opinion must be cleared out” — Apr. 1948 - In his diary, in April 1948.
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Quotation from Theodor Herzl “I have just come from Plehve … he will effectuate for us a charter for Palestine” — Aug. 1903 - Talking about his meeting with the Russian pogromist Viatcheslav Plehve. According to the remarks reported by Herzl to Chaim Zhitlovsky, who rejected these conditions.
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Quotation from Chaim Weizmann “I have no understanding of and no sympathy for the demand for a Jewish majority in Palestine” — Jul. 1931 - In an interview - given to the Jewish Telegraph Agency - that contributed to his elimination from the presidency of the Zionist Congress.
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Quotation from Yusuf Ziya al-Khalidi “I make no distinction between Jews, Christians and Muslims” — Mar. 1 1899 - Mayor of Jerusalem, in the letter to Chief Rabbi of Paris Zadok Kahn.
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Quotation from Ariel Sharon “I prefer to advocate a policy... that in a positive way will induce people to leave” — Aug. 24 1988 - Advocates 'humane' ethnic cleansing, rotting life to make people leave.
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Quotation from Theodor Herzl “I propose capturing the Jewish communities as one of our next targets” — Aug. 28 1898 - Speaking at the 2nd Zionist Congress in Basel in 1998 to tackle the generally anti-Zionist Jewish (religious) communities.
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Quotation from John Adams “I really wish the Jews again in Judea an independent nation” — Mar. 15 1819 - Second President of the United States (from 1797 to 1801), in a letter to a Jewish traveler of the time, Mordechai Noah, wanted a "restoration" of the Jews in Judea with a view to their conversion.
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Quotation from Theodor Herzl “I recognized the emptiness and futility of trying to ‘combat’ anti-Semitism” — June 2 1895 - On the first day of his diary.
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Quotation from Ofer Akunis “I resolutely oppose … a Palestinian state in the place where our nation was born” — Mar. 8 2014 - Minister of Science, Technology and Space (2019).
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Quotation from Albert Einstein “I should much rather see agreement with the Arabs ... than the creation of a Jewish state” — 1938 - In a speech to the National Labor Committee for Palestine in New York City.
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Quotation from Max Nordau “I suggested Helmstatte as a synonym for state” — 1920 - Co-organizer of the first Zionist congress in Basel, explaining that as early as 1897, the term Heimstatte (National Home) had been chosen rather than Judenstaat (Jewish State) in order to make it less frightening.
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Quotation from David Ben Gurion “I support compulsory transfer. I don't see anything immoral in it” — June 12 1938 - In a joint meeting of the Jewish Agency and the Committee for Zionist Action.
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Quotation from Benyamin Netanyahu “I think the Israeli people understand now what I always say” — Jul. 11 2014 - At a press conference, made it clear that he could never under any circumstances approve a fully sovereign Palestinian state in the West Bank.
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Quotation from Haim Nahman Bialik “I too, like Hitler, believe in the power of blood idea” — 1934 - Poet celebrated by 220 place names in Israel, speaking in 1934 at a press conference at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
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Quotation from Ariel Sharon “I want the Arabs to see Jewish lights every night 500 meters from them” — 1980 - Passing by helicopter over the Netzarim settlement in the Gaza Strip.
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Quotation from Theodor Herzl “I want you to… put the stamp of your authority on the Zionist plan” — Jan. 11 1902 - Expressing his admiration for the colonial adventurer Cecil Rhodes, the founder of Rhodesia, in a draft letter written in his diary.
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Quotation from Golda Meir “I was put on the Histadrut Executive … It was a great colonizing agency” — Jan. 24 1971 - Prime Minister, in an interview with The Observer
about what the Jewish union Histadrut was in 1928.
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Quotation from Tzipi Livni “I was the minister of justice. I am a lawyer … But I am against law” — June 7 2014 - Former Minister of Justice, participant in the "negotiations" with the Palestinian Authority in Nov. 2007, speaking about her response to the request to include international law.
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Quotation from Naftali Bennett “I will do everything ... forever, to fight against a Palestinian state being founded” — Jan. 21 2013 - Minister... of Education.
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Quotation from Menahem Ussishkin “I will make sure that we will be the landlords of this land” — May 19 1936 - Delegate of Moscow to the first Zionist Congress, President of the KKL/JNF (Jewish National Fund).
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Quotation from Ofer Akunis “I will oppose any outline that includes two states” — Aug. 27 2013 - Minister Without Portfolio.
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Quotation from Yitzhak Rabin “I would like Gaza to sink into the sea” — Sep. 2 1992 - Then Prime Minister, to a delegation from the Washington Institute for Near East Policy in Jerusalem.
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