Zionism as an imperial interest
- Quotation from Idit Silman “God has sent us the US (Trump) administration” — Mar. 11 2025
Minister of Environmental Protection, member of the Likud party, during an interview on public radio Reshet Bet. - Quotation from Yitzhak Herzog “To save Western civilization (against) an empire of evil” — Dec. 5 2023
Interviewed by MSNBC, the President of Israel justifies the genocide in Gaza with the clichés of the war of civilizations. - Quotation from Joseph Biden “Beheadings, bodies burned alive” — Nov. 18 2023
In Tel Aviv, the US President repeats the Israeli line, including the lies already debunked. - Quotation from Robert Jr. Kennedy “Israel is a bulkward for us” — Nov. 9 2023
Robert Kennedy Jr., nephew of JFK, was still a member of the Democratic Party when he wrote this ode to unconditional support for Israel, which echoes the expression of Israel as an “aircraft carrier” used 40 years earlier by Alexander Haig. - Quotation from Joseph Biden “Confirmed pictures of terrorists beheading…” — Oct. 11 2023
October 11. No decapitated babies, even less terrorists beheading children, but the US President does a great service to israeli lies. - Quotation from Auteur inconnu “The United States fully support Israel’s right to defend kitself” — May 21 2021
After 230 Palestinians killed and a fortnight of destruction, Joe Biden reiterates his unconditional support for Israel. - Quotation from Joseph Biden “The security of United States and Israel is inextrically tied ” — Nov. 10 2014
Three months after the “Protective Edge” massacre (2,257 dead), Biden reiterates his total support for Israel. - Quotation from Joseph Biden “We stood up on legitimacy … of the state of Israel” — Mar. 4 2013
Then Vice President, Biden proclaims US support for Israel to delegates of the pro-Israel US lobby, AIPAC. - Quotation from Joseph Biden “It’s simply no space between the United States and Israel” — Mar. 9 2010
Two months after the “Cast Lead” massacres (1,390 Palestinians killed), Vice-President Joe Biden, on a visit to Israel, once again vouches for Zionist security in action. - Quotation from Anis Sayegh “They said their ally Britain would resolves the issues” — 2009
Publisher of the Palestinian Encyclopedia, about the call of Prince Abdullah and the Imam of Yemen to end the 1936 strike. - Quotation from Joseph Biden “ Israël is the single greatest strength America has” — Mar. 28 2007
Senator from Delaware, interviewed during his 2008 Democratic primary campaign. - Quotation from Marek Edelman “Not to atone for the six million Jews murdered in Europe” — Apr. 12 2006
Member of the Bund, anti-Zionist, leader of the Warsaw ghetto uprising, answering an Israeli journalist who asked him blandly if it was not "logical" that the Jews should do "everything to survive". - 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. - Quotation from Dov Weissglas “This whole package called the Palestinian state ...has been removed from our agenda” — Oct. 6 2004
Advisor to Sharon, Ariel, in an interview with Haaretz. - 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. - Quotation from Benyamin Netanyahu “America... you can easily manoeuver and move in the right direction” — 2001
During a family's visit to the settlement of Ofra in 2001, Netanyahu explained that everything is allowed thanks to American support, how he stopped the Oslo Accords, and that the Palestinians must be crushed. The secretly taken video was not released until 2010. - Quotation from Henry Kissinger “The first step should be to throw out television, a la South Africa” — Jan. 31 1988
U.S. Secretary of State from 1973 to 1977 then influential consultant, talking about the 1st Palestinian Intifada, according to a memo whose content has not been denied by the person concerned; translating the extremism of organized American Zionism. - Quotation from Joseph Biden “This is the best $3 billion investment we make” — June 5 1986
Delaware Senator Joe Biden proclaims before the Senate that Israel serves US interests. - Quotation from Benzion Netanyahu “Terrorism is the first general attack on a free society” — 1986
Father of Benyamin Netanyahu, former personal secretary of the extreme right-wing leader Vladimir Jabotinsky, claiming that "terrorism" is only there to strengthen the USSR. - Quotation from Alexander Haig “Israel is the largest U.S. aircraft carrier” — 1982
Alexander Haig, former advisor to Richard Nixon, then Supreme Commander of NATO in Europe, and finally Secretary of State under Ronald Reagan (1981-2), gives the political reasons for the US's unconditional support for Israel. - Quotation from Moses Hess “Our lost fatherland … on the road to India and China” — 1962
Seen as the first Jewish political Zionist, Moses Hess clearly indicated the geostrategic interest of Jewish European colonization in the Palestinian area. - Quotation from Adolf Eichmann “Had I been a Jew, I would have been a fanatical Zionist” — Sep. 10 1961
As a bona fide Nazi, Adolf Eichmann admired Zionism as a means of voluntary emigration for European Jews, before taking part in the next step, the “Final Solution”. - Quotation from Clement Attlee “U.S. policy... moulded by the Jewish vote and by party contributions” — 1961
British Prime Minister (Labour) from 1945 to 1951, giving in 1961 his opinion on the origin of the American policy which required the admission of 100.000 Jewish refugees per year in Palestine. - Quotation from Moshe Dayan “Serious help means killing Egyptians” — June 1956
Moshe Dayan, addressing Ben Gurion before the Suez expedition. - 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…. - Quotation from Chaim Weizmann “Viz ; the Jews take over the country” — 1949
Chaim Weizmann, the main Zionist lobbyist during the First World War, explained in March 1915, in a letter to the editor of the Manchester Guardian, his plan to use Great Britain as a protector for the development of the Zionist settlement in Palestine. - Quotation from Chaim Weizmann “Balfour, Churchill ... believed in the Bible ... we Zionists represented a great tradition” — Jan. 1 1970
Chaim Weizmann, the main Zionist lobbyist in Great Britain during the First World War, recalls, in connection with a polemic against anti-Zionist Jews, that the English Protestant leaders sympathize with the myth of the jewish "return". - Quotation from Drew Pearson “Truman cracked down... to swing the UN vote for the partition of Palestine” — Feb. 9 1948
American journalist, reporting on a few behind-the-scenes operations to push through - on the third attempt - the partition resolution of Palestine of November 29, 1947. - Quotation from James Forrestal “The method ... to bring coercion and duress on other nations in the General Assembly bordered closely on scandal” — Feb. 3 1948
U.S. Secretary of Defense (1947-1949), who committed suicide or was defenestrated on May 22, 1949, exposing to Roosevelt the means used to obtain the partition vote for Palestine on November 29, 1947. - 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. - Quotation from Hannah Arendt “Only folly could ... trusts a distant imperial power for protection” — Oct. 1945
In her book "Zionism Reconsidered", she wrote. - 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. - Quotation from Winston Churchill “In harmony with the truest interests of the British Empire” — Feb. 8 1920
In this racialist, anti-Communist and anti-Semitic article, Winston Churchill, then British War Minister, endorses Balfour's commitment to the Zionist project in Palestine, in the name of "the interests of the British Empire". - Quotation from Arthur Balfour “The Four Great Powers ... are committed to Zionism” — Aug. 11 1919
In a private memorandum to the British Cabinet dated August 11, 1919, expresses that the great powers do not care about the Palestinians - 90% of the population at the time - and that with help, Zionism will help solve the "Jewish problem". - Quotation from Arthur Balfour “Palestine should be reconstituted as the national home of the Jewish people” — Jul. 18 1917
Two weeks before his famous declaration, Lord Balfour wrote this preliminary draft in which his only purpose is to entrust Great Britain with the common objective of Christian and Jewish Zionists throughout Palestine. - Quotation from Jules Cambon “The French Government … can but feel sympathy for your cause” — June 4 1917
Secretary General of the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, in a letter to Nahum Sokolov, Weizmann's partner (unpublished letter at the time), giving official support to the myth of the "rebirth of Jewish nationality", i.e. to Zionism. - Quotation from Woodrow Wilson “Restore the Holy Land to its people” — 1916
President of the United States, in a discussion with Zionist rabbi Stephen Wise about a future British declaration of support for Zionism:. - 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. - Quotation from Theodor Herzl “The first moment I entered the Movement my eyes were directed towards England” — Feb. 28 1898
In a letter sent to his English friends before the creation of the English Zionist Federation. - 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 ". - 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. - Quotation from Henry Dunant “... agricultural colonies, with the help and labor of those of their Eastern co-religionists...” — Jan. 1 1970
In 1866, Henry Dunant, Calvinist and founder of the Red Cross, recommended to Emperor Napoleon III the creation of a settlement society in Palestine for Eastern European Jews. The project never got off the ground. Dunant attended the First Zionist Congress of 1897. - Quotation from Abraham Lincoln “Restoring the Jews” — 1863
Déclare en réponse à un homme d’église canadien, Henry Wentworth Monk :. - Quotation from Mordechai Manuel Noah “The whole territory…will be occupied by enterprising Jews.” — 1845
Mordechai Noah, diplomat, journalist, playwright and slaveholder, can be considered the first influential Jewish American Zionist. In 1819, he received the support of the second American president, John Adams (see quote). Following Britain's crushing of Egypt for control of the Middle East (1840), he speculated on Jewish colonization. This would not begin until 42 years later. - Quotation from Emily Temple “Acre seems to have fallen down like the walls of Jericho” — Dec. 3 1841
In 1841, Lady Palmerston saw the destruction of Acre by the British navy as a first step towards the “restoration” of the Jews, in line with a colonialist reading of the Bible. - Quotation from Henry John Temple “Under our protection, they would… bring with them much wealth.” — Nov. 25 1840
Lord Palmerston, then Foreign Secretary, drew the consequences of British military successes against Egypt, from Beirut to Gaza: Palestine was to be opened up to Jewish colonization. - Quotation from Henry John Temple “It would be of manifest importance to the Sultan to encourage the Jews to return” — 1840
For more than 60 years, Henri John Temple served british imperial interests. He shows little regard in « jewish » interests but insists on « return » as a means to check Egypt and increase the Sultan financil status. Here in a letter to the British Ambassador in Constantinopolis. - Quotation from Anthony Ashley Cooper “The ancient city of the people of God is about to resume a place among the nations” — 1838
Seventh Earl of Shaftesbury, English statesman, on the occasion of the opening of a British embassy in Jerusalem (in reference to Luke 21-24). - Quotation from François-René de Chateaubriand “These legitimate masters of Judea ” — Apr. 20 1819
Chateaubriand, an ultraroyalist conservative writer and diplomat, gives alms to the Catholic myth of the exile to the Jews of Jerusalem, and hopes for a military adventure of the Holy Alliance.