A Palestinian people does exist
- Quotation from Bezalel Smotrich “There are no Palestinians” — Mar. 19 2023
A settler in the occupied Palestinian territories, openly fascist and homophobic, Smotrich, who became Israel's Minister of Finance, takes up Golda Meir's denialist remarks of 1969. - Quotation from Benzion Netanyahu “They only call themselves people in order to fight the Jew” — Apr. 3 2009
Father of Benyamin Netanyahu, former personal secretary of right-wing leader Vladimir Jabotinsky, in an interview for the Maariv newspaper. - Quotation from Raleb Majadele “...to sing an anthem that was written for Jews only” — Mar. 17 2007
Israeli Palestinian, who served as Minister of Science, Culture and Sport from March 2007 to March 2009. - Quotation from Ehud Barak “If I were a Palestinian at the right age, I would have joined one of the terrorist organizations” — Mar. 7 1998
Questioned by Gideon Levy, an editorialist from Haaretz, on what he would have done if he had been born Palestinian. - 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 David Ben Gurion “To get it, we must return to the borders before 1967” — Mar. 25 1971
In an interview by John McCook Roots for Saturday Review , in a realistic vision of the future of the "Jewish State". - 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. - 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 Bob Boothby “Resettlement of the Arab population … This should, have been carried out ... by the British” — Jan. 14 1964
President of the Anglo-Israeli Association, referring to the development and consequences of the 1917 Balfour Declaration. - Quotation from Moshe Dayan “To be willing and armed, strong and unyielding” — Apr. 29 1956
Moshe Dayan, then Chief of Staff, speaks at the funeral of the soldier King Rotberg. Without denying the injustice perceived by the Palestinians, he updates Jabotinsky's speech on the "Iron Wall" to be maintained indefinitely to preserve Zionist domination. - Quotation from David Ben Gurion “If I were an Arab leader I would never make terms with Israel” — 1956
Conversation with Nahum Goldmann. - Quotation from Arthur Koestler “One nation solemnly promised to a second nation the country of a third” — 1949
Writer, commenting on the "extravagance" of the Balfour Declaration of 1917 (extravagance approved by Koestler). - Quotation from Gandhi “The cry for the national home for the Jews does not make much appeal to me” — Nov. 26 1938
In a text in the newspaper Harijan exposing his position on the "Arab-Jewish question". - 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. - Quotation from Arthur Ruppin “We are bound in each case. . . to remove the peasants who cultivated the land” — May 30 1930
An important Zionist figure, creator of Brit Shalom, in favor of a bi-national state AND of a transfer of Palestinians to Syria,. - 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. - Quotation from Chaim Weizmann “Palestine is not Rhodesia and that 600,000 Arabs live there” — Aug. 1925
In a speech without future at the 14th Zionist World Congress in Vienna, he said. - Quotation from Vladimir Jabotinsky “Zionism a colonizing adventure stands or falls on on the question of armed force” — 1925
In the text "The Iron Law" of 1925. - Quotation from David Ben Gurion “We are conquerors of the land facing an iron wall” — Dec. 1922
At the 3rd convention of Ahdut Ha'avoda in Haifa in December 1922. - 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. - Quotation from Yaakov Meiersohn “In Palestine, there is no unsettled land at all” — Jul. 1920
Leader of the communist tendency of Poale Zion, during its congress in Vienna. - 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. - 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. - Quotation from Moshe Sharett “We have come to conquer a country from people inhabiting it” — Feb. 12 1914
Future second Prime Minister of Israel, later described as a "moderate", in a letter sent from Istanbul to his friends in Tel Aviv. - Quotation from Moshe Smilansky “Let us not be too familiar with the Arab fellahin lest our children adopt their ways” — 1908
Activist settler, presented as a supporter of an agreement with the Palestinians, revealing his deep racism. - Quotation from Yitzhak Epstein “The entire valley reverberated with their moan” — 1907
Writer and linguist established in Palestine in 1886, founder of the first hebrew school, speaking during the 7th Zionist congress. - 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. - 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. - 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. - Quotation from Asher Ginsberg “They deal with the Arabs with hostility and cruelty” — 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.