Without expulsion or a Palestinian State, apartheid
- Quotation from Michael Lynk “An institutionalized regime of systematic racial oppression and discrimination” — May 3 2022
Special Rapporteur for the United Nations on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian Territories occupied since 1967, in his final report. - Quotation from Bezalel Smotrich “You Palestinians are still here. For now” — Oct. 4 2019
Minister of Transportation, in an attack against Israeli Arab lawmakers. - Quotation from Benyamin Netanyahu “Israel is not the State of all its citizens” — Mar. 9 2019
Prime Minister, challenged on Instagram by actress Rotem Sala that there are Arab citizens who should be treated equally. - Quotation from Avi Dichter “Prevent the slightest thought ...to transform Israel to a country of all its citizens” — Jul. 18 2018
Rapporteur of the Basic Law "Israel - Nation State of the Jewish People", explaining ingeniously that the purpose of this law is to make apartheid irreversible. - Quotation from Richard Falk “There is a integrated regime of apartheid” — Mar. 16 2017
Professor Richard Falk (Princeton), former UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in Palestine, concluding a report co-authored with Virginia Tilley, commissioned by the UN Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA). - Quotation from Sheldon Adelson “Israel isn’t going to be a democratic state — so what?” — Nov. 9 2014
Casino magnate, donor to several U.S. Zionist organizations, friend of Trump and Natanyahu, in a conference in Washington. - Quotation from Desmond Tutu “These tools – BDS – ultimately proved effective ” — Aug. 14 2014
South African Archbishop, in an article written for Haaretz daily newspaper. - 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. - Quotation from Yariv Levin “A clear Israeli law will...show our insistence that we are a Jewish state” — Mar. 14 2014
Minister of Tourism and Public Security, anticipating the apartheid law of 2018. - 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. - 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. - Quotation from Ze'ev Elkin “I certainly think a Palestinian state is no solution” — Jul. 29 2013
Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs. - 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. - Quotation from Ze'ev Elkin “We will try to apply sovereignty over the maximum” — Mar. 20 2013
Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs. - Quotation from Danny Danon “To strengthen the settlements in Judea and Samaria, in the Negev and in the Galilee” — Mar. 18 2013
Minister of Science, Technology and Space. - Quotation from Danny Danon “Land-for-peace is over. We don't want a Palestinian State” — Oct. 2 2012
Minister of Science, Technology and Space, in an interview on Israel National Radio. - Quotation from Danny Danon “The long-term vision is ... Jewish sovereignty over the communities ... of Judea and Samaria” — Sep. 13 2012
Minister of Science, Technology and Space. - Quotation from Shlomo Gazit “The legal system … is actually maintaining an apartheid regime” — Jul. 19 2011
Former Major General and Director of the Jewish Agency, who became a member of Yesh Din. - 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. - Quotation from Ahmad Tibi “Israel is a democracy for Jews and a Jewish state for Arabs ” — 2009
Leader of palestinian israeli’s Ta’al party, elected as Knesset member since 1999. The first occurrence of his say is unknown. - Quotation from Ehud Olmert “If the day comes when the two-state solution collapses, the State of Israel is finished” — Nov. 29 2007
Interviewed by Haaretz at the end of the Annapolis "negotiations". - Quotation from John Dugard “Forms of colonialism and of apartheid” — Jan. 29 2007
UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the West Bank and Gaza from 2001 to 2007, South African law professor John Dugard has already concluded that "many practices" by Israel in the Palestinian occupied territories occupied amount to the crime of apartheid. - 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. - Quotation from Ahmed Qurei “This is an apartheid solution to put the Palestinian in cantons” — Jan. 8 2004
Then Prime Minister of the Palestinian Authority, conscious that Israel only wants one apartheid state. - Quotation from Azmi Bishara “Zionist colonialism inhabits the space between two extinct models” — Jan. 8 2004
Palestinian from Israel, founder of the Balad party, exiled since 2007. - 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. - Quotation from Avraham Burg “A state lacking justice cannot survive” — Aug. 29 2003
A politician of the "Zionist Left" (1985-1995), Chairman of the Jewish Agency and the World Zionist Organization (1995-1999) and then Speaker of the Knesset (1999-2003), in August 2003, Avraham Burg announced his break with Zionism in the text from which this quote is taken. - 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. - 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. - Quotation from Moshe
Yaalon “The characteristics of that threat are invisible, like cancer” — Sep. 3 2002
Israeli Chief of Staff, explaining that with regard to the colonized Palestinians, he prefers targeted destruction and assassinations to mass expulsion or genocide. - Quotation from Michael Ben-Yair “The intifada is the Palestinian people's war of national liberation” — Mar. 3 2002
Attorney General of Israel from 1993 to 1996. - Quotation from Ariel Sharon “The Oslo agreement … for the Palestinians, is the only agreement they possess” — May 3 1998
Speaking at the WINEP symposium in Washington. - 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. - Quotation from Yitzhak Rabin “Next to it, a Palestinian entity, less than a state, that runs the life of Palestinians” — Sep. 30 1995
In CNN's Evans and Novack program of September 30, 1995, expressing its opposition to a sovereign Palestinian State. - 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. - 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. - Quotation from Israel Shahak “The same type of act ... granting the Israeli governor ... the power of Hitler” — Dec. 1983
President of the Israeli Human Rights League, Bergen Belsen survivor, commenting on the emergency laws passed after the 1967 war. - Quotation from Yitzhak Rabin “If we don’t want to get to apartheid” — 1976
In an interview shown in the film "Rabin in his own words", where he compares colonies to cancer. - Quotation from Fatah “Irrespective of race, color or creed” — 1972
In its 1972 platform, the main PLO organization, Fatah, called for a "unitary, democratic and non-sectarian" state for all of Palestine, without elaborating further. - Quotation from Auteur inconnu “We must leave the occupied territories immediately” — Sep. 22 1967
First publication, in the daily Haaretz, of an Israeli anti-colonial statement after the Six Day War. On the initiative of members and supporters of Matzpen ("The Compass"): Shimon Tzabar, with Eli Aminov, Arie Bober, David Ehrenfeld, Raif Elias, Hayim Hanegbi, Uri Liphshitz, Moshe Machover, Dan Omer, Yehuda Rozenshtrauch , Shneor Sherman and Rafi Zikhroni. - Quotation from Moshe Dayan “Let ... say that we don't have a solution and you will continue living like dogs” — Sep. 1967
Israeli Defense Minister, at a meeting of the Rafi (extremist wing of the Labor coalition), in response to Shimon Peres, about refugees in the occupied territories. - Quotation from Abba Eban “The world will side with a liberation movement” — June 15 1967
Then Minister of Foreign Affairs, during an inter-ministerial meeting. - Quotation from David Ben Gurion “Israel better rid itself of the territories and their Arab population” — June 10 1967
In a radio statement on June 10, 1967, sees that Israel will impose apartheid in the occupied territories. - Quotation from Hendrik Verwoerd “Israel, like South Africa, is an apartheid state” — Nov. 23 1961
Former Prime Minister of South Africa, in the daily Rand Daily Mail. - Quotation from Martin Buber “The power to heal our people of their murderous sickness of causeless hatred” — Jan. 1961
Famous philosopher who was a supporter of a binational state, in the magazine Ner of the binationalist group Ichud (Unity). - Quotation from Collectif “There must be as few Arabs on as few lands as possible” — Dec. 26 1949
Text of the (Israeli) Refugee Resettlement Agency about the Palestinians who remained on the soil of Palestine, now Israel.