Palestinians are at home elsewhere...
- Quotation from Itamar Ben-Gvir “Encourage … the voluntary departure of Gaza’s residents. It’s ethical !” — May 14 2024
Fascist leader, promoter of forced colonialism, Minister of National Security in the Netanyahu VI government, at a meeting in Sderot. - Quotation from Danny Ayalon “We ...wil prepare … you know, tent cities” — Oct. 13 2023
Former Israeli ambassador to the USA and adviser to three prime ministers, Danny Ayalon, interviewed by al Jazeera, presents, in the manner of an undenied official announcement, the expulsion of the population of the Gaza Strip, "fleeing the massacre like the Syrians". - Quotation from Danny Ayalon “We ...will prepare … you know, tent cities” — Oct. 13 2023
Former Israeli ambassador to the USA and adviser to three prime ministers, Danny Ayalon, interviewed by al Jazeera, presents, in the manner of an undenied official announcement, the expulsion of the population of the Gaza Strip, "fleeing the massacre like the Syrians". - Quotation from Yitzhak Herzog “ a state in a way, that has built a machine of evil” — Oct. 12 2023
President of Israel, during a press conference, affirming a collective responsibility, that of the colonized people. - Quotation from Itamar Ben-Gvir “My right…is more important than freedom of movement for the Arabs” — Aug. 23 2023
Itamar Ben-Gvir, resident of the religious far-right settlement Kiryat Arba, admirer of Meir Kahane and killer Baruch Goldstein, became Minister of National Security when he made this statement typical of supremacist Zionism. The next day, Palestinian model Bella Hadad replied : “In no place, no time, especially in 2023 should one life be more valuable than another’s. Especially simply because of their ethnicity, culture or pure hatred.”. - Quotation from Yitzhak Yosef “Gentiles should not live in the Land of Israel” — Mar. 26 2016
Chief Sephardic rabbi of Israel, son of Ovadia Yosef, tells congregants that according to Jewish law, indigenous Palestinians and other non-Jews "should not live in the land of Israel". - Quotation from Gila Gamliel “I disagree with the word occupation” — Jul. 30 2013
Minister for Senior Citizens. - Quotation from Binyamin Elon “Make their life so bitter that they will transfer themselves willingly” — Dec. 2001
Minister (Moledet Party) in the Sharon Government. - Quotation from Rehavam Zeevi “Zionism is in essence the Zionism of transfer” — 1987
Israeli general and founder of the Moledet party, great advocate of the "transfer", killed by the Palestinian PFLP in 2001. - Quotation from Avraham Yehoshua “You will remain a minority, as the Basques are in Spain” — Nov. 1985
Israeli novelist, laying the Palestinians the equation accept your minority status or leave. - Quotation from Yitzhak Rabin “Conditions which would attract natural and voluntary migration of the refugees” — Mar. 16 1983
Explaining his method of ethnically cleansing the occupied territories without the world shouting. - Quotation from Golda Eshkol Meir “My soul yearns for the dowry, and to let someone else take the bride” — Sep. 1967
In a dialogue with Levy Eshkol a year and a half before she succeeded him as Prime Minister, exposes the problem of coming to seize the Palestinian territories, but without Palestinians. - Quotation from Levi Eshkol “We’d send all the Arabs out to Brazil” — June 15 1967
Then Prime Minister, 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 David Ben Gurion “These Arabs should not reside here” — 1950
At a Mapai party meeting in late 1950, Ben Gurion expressed his desire to take advantage of a war to remove the Palestinian minority from Israel. - 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. - Quotation from Yitzhak Tabenkin “Our aim is the entire Land of Israel on both banks of the Jordan” — Mar. 1944
One of the founders of the kibbutz movement, summarizing the imperial objective. - Quotation from Vladimir Jabotinsky “There is no choice: the Arabs must make room for the Jews in Eretz Yisrael” — Nov. 9 1939
A Zionist leader with a fascist leaning, for a long time opposed to the idea of the necessity and even usefulness of a transfer, even if not forced. At the end of the 1930s his views changed. In the notes of a meeting with Shlomo Klinger, a member of the presidency of the New Zionist Organization, he writes. - Quotation from Menahem Ussishkin “To take a part of the Arabs and transfer and settle them … is as moral as can be” — June 12 1938
Head of the Executive Committee of the World Zionist Organization, at a meeting of the Jewish Agency's executive committee, advocates that the British should proceed with the expulsion of 60,000 Palestinian families. - Quotation from Yosef Baratz “Isn’t it evacuation which has been continuing our work in the country for the last 40-50 years?” — Aug. 8 1937
Leader of the Mapaï party, criticizing the reservations of the delegates of Hachomer Hatza'ir to the "transfer" of Palestinians. - Quotation from David Ben Gurion “The transfer of population is what makes possible a comprehensive settlement program” — Aug. 7 1937
During a debate in the Zionist Assembly during the Peel Commission debates (English text completed with partial citations). - Quotation from Moshe Sharett “The memorandum that we had submitted ...(for the) transfer of the Arabs … to Transjordan” — June 12 1937
Relating a dinner with the American Consul General in Jerusalem George Wadsworth. - Quotation from David Ben Gurion “Why is it forbidden to transfer an Arab from the Hebron area to Transjordan” — Nov. 1 1936
During a meeting preceding the Peel Commission, proposing a transfer of Palestinians to the Transjordan (considered as part of Israel's Lands). - 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). - Quotation from Moshe Beilinson “In Syria, in Iraq, in the Arabian Peninsula lies the homeland of the Arab people” — Dec. 4 1929
Writer, journalist and spokesperson for Ben Gurion's Labour Party, writes. - Quotation from Israel Zangwill “There is no Arab people … there is at best an Arab encampment” — 1920
After having popularized Shaftesbury's formula on "the land without people", Zangwill, who never set foot in Palestine, participates in the alternative fairy tale, Palestinians are passing nomads. - 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. - Quotation from Israel Zangwill “They have given nothing to Palestine and are not entitled to the rules of democracy” — 1919
At a public meeting, talking about Palestinian Arabs. - Quotation from Leo Motzkin “It does not require too much money to resettle a Palestinian village on another land” — 1917
Zionist leader between the 1st Congress in Basel and the Haavara Agreements with the Nazis in 1933, early follower of the "transfer" of the Palestinians. - 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 Smilansky “It is very simple. We'll harass them until they get out” — 1891
Member of the first wave of colonization in Palestine, reporting a dialogue between two settlers of the "Lovers of Zion" (Hovevie Tzion) in 1891.