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Quotation from David Ben Gurion “A comprehensive agreement is undoubtedly out of the question now” — June 9 1936 - In a letter to the executive of the Jewish Agency.
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Quotation from Yigal Allon “A couple of … bombardments on Hebron and not a single 'Hebronite' would have remained” — Nov. 1967 - Former commander of the Palmach, Deputy Prime Minister in 1967, he called for a new ethnic cleansing on the scale of the Nakba.
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Quotation from Israel Zangwill “A different place must be found either for the Jews or for their neighbours” — 1916 - Jewish writer from Great Britain and spokesman of the Zionist movement, which he left in 1905, speaking to Zeev Jabotinsky in 1916.
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Quotation from Judah Magnes “A Jewish Home in Palestine built up on bayonets and oppression is not worth having” — Sep. 7 1929 - First President of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, in a letter to Chaim Weizmann.
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Quotation from Ehud Olmert “A Jewish state on part of the Land of Israel ...a binational state on all of the Land” — Jan. 1 2006 - In his New Year's greetings, expressing a wish to avoid South African-style apartheid.
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Quotation from Michal Katorza “A large portion of JNF Parks are … where palestinian villages used to stand” — 2008 - KKL/JNF leader in charge of park signage, recognizing the function of parks, well known to Palestinians.
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Quotation from Ronald Storrs “A little loyal Jewish Ulster in a sea of potentially hostile Arabism” — 1943 - The first British governor of Jerusalem, comments on the British logic behind the decision of the Balfour Declaration of 1917.
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Quotation from Ariel Atias “A national duty to prevent the spread of a population that … does not love Israel” — Jul. 2 2009 - Member of the Religious Zionist Party Shah.
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Quotation from Vladimir Jabotinsky “A preservation of national integrity is impossible except by a preservation of racial purity” — June 1904 - Founder of the "revisionist movement", ideological ancestor of the Israeli "right", tutelary figure of the Likud, celebrated in many streets and avenues in Israel. Writing in a Russian publication, he glorifies "ethnic" segregation and a racialist vision of humanity and the "Jewish people".
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Quotation from Avi Primor “A process ... establishing a ‘Palestinian state’ limited to the Palestinian cities” — Sep. 18 2002 - Vice President of Tel Aviv University, explaining Sharon's strategy.
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Quotation from Amos Oz “A state cannot be Jewish, just as a chair or a bus cannot be Jewish” — Oct. 1997 - Israeli writer, writing in a phase of lucidity.
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Quotation from Theodor Herzl “A wall of defense for Europe in Asia, an outpost of civilization against barbarism” — Feb. 14 1896 - In his book The Jewish State.
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Quotation from Hans Friedrich Karl Günther “A worthy and evident solution of the Jewish question lies in that separation” — 1927 - Influential propagandist of Nazi "racial science" in a 1927 book. Günther had a friendly meeting with the Zionist leader Arthur Ruppin in 1933.
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Quotation from Danny Danon “About the two-state solution... Today we’re not fighting it” — June 6 2013 - Deputy Minister of Defence.
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Quotation from Yigal Allon “Achieve total victory, the territorial fulfillment of the Land Of Israel” — 1966 - Labor leader, leader of the Union of Labor tendency, former general during the Nakba, says aloud his regret that he did not drive out more Palestinians in 1948.
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Quotation from Yosef Weitz “Advocate land presently held and cultivated by the Arabs and thus to release it for Jewish inhabitants” — Nov. 22 1937 - KKL/JNF leader and Chair of the Transfer Committee, explaining that.
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Quotation from Shukri Al-‘Asali “After having taken possession of the land they will expel the inhabitants” — May 18 1911 - Damascus Deputy in the Ottoman Parliament, Kaymakam (Governor) of Nazareth.
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Quotation from Moshe Dayan “After the present cease-fire lines, there will be new ones” — Jul. 5 1968 - Then Minister of Defense, in front of the young people of the kibbutzim gathered on the Golan Heights.
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Quotation from Arthur Ruppin “Agreed with me that the Jews are not inferior but different” — Aug. 16 1933 - Racist theorist of Zionism, writing in his diary.
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Quotation from Benyamin Netanyahu “All civilian casualties are unintended by us but actually intended by Hamas” — Jul. 20 2014 - In an interview on CNN with Wolf Biltzer, developing with maximum cynicism that Hamas is responsible for Palestinian civilian deaths.
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Quotation from Moshe Dayan “All our settlements are built on the ruins of Palestinian villages” — Apr. 1969 - Talking to students of the Haifa Technion about the Palestinian villages destroyed in 1948.
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Quotation from Rafael Eitan “All the Arabs are the same. They should all be finished off” — 1980 - Chief of Staff of the Israeli army, making genocidal remarks during a meeting of the high command in Gaza in 1980.
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Quotation from Rafael Eitan “All the Arabs will be able to do about it will be to scurry around like drugged roaches” — Apr. 12 1983 - Chief of Staff of the IDF (Israeli army), before the Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee. Not to be confused with the director of the Mossad of the same name.
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Quotation from Mordechaï Bentov “All this story about the danger of extermination has been a complete invention” — Apr. 14 1972 - Former Minister, about the 6 Day War.
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Quotation from David Ben Gurion “Almost 40 percent non-Jews. Such a composition does not provide a stable basis for a Jewish state” — Dec. 30 1947 - Speech to the Central Committee of Histadrut, expressing the Zionist "democratic" conception and the coming ethnic cleansing.
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Quotation from David Ben Gurion “Among ourselves there can be no debate about the integrity of the Land of Israel” — 1937 - In a commentary on the Peel Commission's proposal, reported by Moshe Dayan, recalls that the goal of Zionism is the total colonization of Palestine.
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Quotation from Noam Perel “An army of avengers … that will not stop at 300 Philistine foreskins” — Jul. 2 2014 - Rabbi of Jerusalem, Secretary General of the World Bnei Akiva, using the Bible as a guide for a call to slaughter.
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Quotation from Yitzhak Epstein “An entire nation, which has occupied it for hundreds of years and has never thought to leave it” — Sep. 16 1905 - Writer and linguist established in Palestine in 1886, founder of the first hebrew school, speaking during the 7th Zionist congress.
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Quotation from Pinhas Rosen “An institute for the fumigation of Jewish vermin” — 1914 - Became the first Minister of Justice of Israel, writing in 1914 that Palestine was (for Zionists) ...
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Quotation from Vladimir Jabotinsky “An iron wall which the native population cannot breakthrough” — Nov. 4 1923 - Leader of the so-called "revisionist" fascist movement, dotting the i's and crossing the t's on how to move forward with the colonization of settlements.
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Quotation from Sulaymân
Al-Tâjî al-Farûqî “An omen of our future exile from our homeland and of our departure” — May 1911 - Ramle's representative to the first Palestinian anti-Zionist party, in the newspaper Filastin.
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Quotation from Anthony Ashley Cooper “And has not England a special interest in promoting such restoration” — 1876 - Seventh Earl of Shaftesbury, English statesman, in an address to the British Parliament in 1876.
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Quotation from Asher Ginsberg “And if this be the Messiah: I do not wish to see his coming” — Nov. 18 1913 - Russian Jewish writer and philosopher, in a letter written to Moshe Smilansky.
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Quotation from Israel Zangwill “And therefore we must generally persuade them to 'trek'” — 1920 - Having returned from the failure of his territorialist option, he found himself in the general racist current.
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Quotation from Charles De Gaulle “And these are met with a resistance which it in turn calls terrorism” — Nov. 27 1967 - At a famous press conference.
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Quotation from Donald Trump “And we moved the capital of Israel to Jerusalem. That’s for the evangelicals” — Aug. 18 2020 - During the election campaign in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, marveling at the power of the early Zionists, the Christian Zionists.
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Quotation from Theodor Herzl “Anti-Semites will become our most dependable friends, the anti-Semitic countries our allies” — June 12 1895 - Explaining the usefulness of allying oneself with the anti-Semites to carry out the Zionist project.
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Quotation from Benyamin Netanyahu “Anti-Semitic edicts by the International Criminal Court” — Dec. 22 2019 - In front of the Wailing Wall, in the presence of US Ambassador David Friedman, openly lying about the referral to the International Criminal Court.
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Quotation from Theodor Herzl “Anti-Semitism has grown and continues to grow - and so do I ” — June 2 1895 - On the first day of his diary.
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Quotation from Yehoshafat Harkabi “Any flaw in Israeli conduct … transformed into proof of the validity of anti-Semitism” — 1988 - Director of Israeli Intelligence from 1955 to 1959, in a book published in Hebrew in 1986 and in English in 1988, explains that Israel's behavior gives rise to antisemitism.
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Quotation from David Ben Gurion “Any Jewish woman … does not bring … at least 4 children is shirking her duty to the nation” — 1972 - In a book. Ben Gurion offered 100 lirot to every woman for the birth of her 10th child.
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Quotation from Yehoshafat Harkabi “Any opposition … is attributed either to ignorance ...or to base motive they are anti-Semitic” — 1982 - Former General Commander of Military Intelligence and Professor of Strategy at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
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Quotation from Berl Katznelson “Arabs will get equal rights ... only (if) a small minority of Arabs will remain” — June 12 1938 - One of Mapai's top leaders comments on what would happen if the Peel Partition Plan is implemented.
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Quotation from Theodor Herzl “Area: from the Brook of Egypt to the Euphrates” — Oct. 14 1898 - Endorsing the suggestion of his associate Max Bodenheimer, specifying for the limits of the State of the Jews.
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Quotation from David Ben Gurion “As April began, our War of Independence swung decisively from defense to attack” — Apr. 20 1954 - In a text or statement dated December 12, 1948, confirms that in April, the Zionists went into a war of conquest.
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Quotation from Martin
Buber “As many Jews as it is possible … but not in order to establish a majority against a minority” — 1944 - Advocating colonization as intense as possible but against all likelihood, without "establishing a majority".
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Quotation from Naftali Tamir “Asia ... Australia and Israel are not - we are basically the white race” — Oct. 13 2006 - Israeli Ambassador to Australia, in an interview with the daily newspaper Haaretz.
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Quotation from Yitzhak Tabenkin “Assimilation is part of the destruction of Jews. A Jew who is destroyed will not assimilate” — 1965 - Ideologist and leader of the secular kibbutz movement, expresses the idea that a dead Jew is better than an assimilated Jew.
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Quotation from Joachim Prinz “Assimilation to be replaced by a ...declaration of belonging to the Jewish nation and race” — 1934 - 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 Theodor Herzl “At Basle I founded the Jewish State” — Sep. 3 1897 - At the end of the first Zionist Congress in Basel.
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