Ethnic cleansing through violence
- Quotation from Uri Ariel “In five years there will be 550,000 or 600,000 Jews in Judea and Samaria” — May 16 2014
Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, during a radio interview. - 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. - 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. - Quotation from Yitzhak Pundak “We had to destroy them, otherwise we would have had Arabs here” — May 21 2004
Brigadier General, explaining 56 years after the events that it was nothing more than ethnic cleansing. - 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 Yitzhak Frankenthal “They have been ready to make peace with us; it is we who are unwilling” — Jul. 27 2002
Founder of the Bereaved Parents Forum, whose son was killed by Hamas in July 1994. - Quotation from Uri Elitzur “What’s so horrifying about understanding that the entire Palestinian people is the enemy” — 2002
Chief of Staff, writer and close advisor to Netanyahu, spokesperson for the settlers, in a 2002 text with genocidal connotations proudly published in June 2014 by Ayelet Shaked shortly before she was appointed Minister of Justice. - Quotation from Ehud Barak “If we thought that instead of 200 Palestinian fatalities, 2,000 dead would put an end” — Nov. 16 2000
Prime Minister (for another 2 months), on the radio. - Quotation from Ariel Sharon “Everything that's grabbed will be in our hands” — Nov. 15 1998
Ariel Sharon, then Minister of Foreign Affairs, at a meeting of the far-right Tsomet party. - Quotation from Edward Said “Drop by drop tactic in which one or two houses are demolished daily” — Jul. 23 1998
A great Palestinian intellectual, opposed to the Oslo Accords, explaining the "originality" of daily ethnic cleansing in the Zionist way. - Quotation from Haim Miller “I don’t sign orders to destroy the house of Jews, only of Arabs” — Feb. 7 1998
Haredi vice-mayor of Jerusalem, acting as mayor in the absence of Ehut Olmert. - Quotation from UN / ONU “To gain control of the area allotted to the Jewish State and … blocs … outside those borders” — 1990
Indicates that the Dalet Plan (1948) was already aimed at 'controlling' the Palestinian territories beyond the space allocated for a 'Jewish state' in 1947. - Quotation from Ariel Sharon “I prefer to advocate a policy... that in a positive way will induce people to leave” — Aug. 24 1988
Advocates 'humane' ethnic cleansing, rotting life to make people leave. - Quotation from Yitzhak Rabin “Break their bones” — Jan. 1988
Former General turned Minister of Defense, gives informal instructions to army commanders about young Palestinian stone-throwers. - Quotation from Yitzhak Rabin “5,600 are currently in prison. Are these trivial numbers” — 1988
During an election debate in 1988, showing the general's shell under the politician's tie. - Quotation from Nissan Rilov “It was an act of barbarism, it was difficult to describe it otherwise” — 1984
Israeli artist expelled from the Zionist Haganah after testifying what he had seen in 1939. - 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. - 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. - Quotation from Israel Koenig “Diluting existing Arab population concentrations” — Sep. 7 1976
From the Ministry of the Interior, in a report for Yitzhak Rabin on Galilee in which he advocates the internal colonization of Galilee. - Quotation from Yeshayahu Leibowitz “Declarations to that effect have been … coloured statements or deliberate lies” — Nov. 30 1973
Historian and moralist, commenting on the situation after the Yom Kippur War, stating that Israel has never sought peace. - Quotation from Menachem Begin “Preceding the Arab invasion … we continued to make sallies into Arab territory” — 1972
Admitting that in 1948, Zionists, especially the Irgun terrorists under his leadership, were already attacking the territory planned for the "Arab State" before the proclamation of Israel. - Quotation from Moshe Dayan “Not one single place built … that did not have a former Arab population” — Apr. 4 1969
Talking about the creation of settlements in the period 1921-1927 on land purchased in the valley of Marj Ibn Amir / Jezreel. Often quoted incomplete about the villages destroyed after 1948. - 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 Golda Meir “For me the supreme morality is the the jewish people has a right to exist” — 1969
In a Mapai meeting to support Israel's right to colonize the occupied territories. - 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. - 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. - Quotation from Yosef Weitz “The population of the territories remained ..., which can cause the destruction of ... our state” — Sep. 29 1967
The architect of the "transfer" in 1948 comments on the appearance of a "demographic risk" in 1967 and recommends the 1948 "solution", to reduce the occupied population. - Quotation from John Bagot Glubb “Has the objective been to remove a nation from its country and to introduce another race” — 1967
British Commander of the Arab Legion from 1941 to 1956 serving British and Jordanian interests. - 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. - Quotation from Leo Heiman “Save your souls, all ye faithful: The Jews are using poison gas and atomic weapons” — June 1964
A Zionist officer who fought in 1948, describing some of the methods used to drive out an unarmed population. - Quotation from Erskine Barton Childers “Not a single order, or appeal, or suggestion about evacuation … from any Arab radio station” — May 12 1961
BBC correspondent after 1960 for the Middle East, confirming for the first time the absence of Arab call to leave in 1948, based on radio archives. - 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. - Quotation from David Ben Gurion “As fighting spread, the exodus was joined by bedouin and fellahin” — 1954
He himself indicates that the Palestinians were driven out in 1848 before the creation of Israel and the entry of Arab troops. - Quotation from Menachem Begin “They would repudiate everything we did and pretend that we were dissident elements” — Nov. 1948
Leader of the terrorist organization Irgun, declaration in the United States during his visit to the United States at the end of November 1948. - Quotation from Yitzhak Rabin “Ben Gurion waved his hand in a gesture which said, "Drive them out!"” — Jul. 12 1948
Commenting in his service book of July 12-13, 1948 on the way Ben Gurion gave the order to expel the Palestinians from Lydda. - Quotation from Yosef Weitz “His opinion is that we must act ...as to transform the exodus of the Arabs into an established fact” — May 28 1948
KKL-JNF leader in a meeting with newly appointed Foreign Minister Moshe Shertok (Sharett) to formalize the "transfer committee" to make the expulsion of Palestinians irreversible. - Quotation from David Ben Gurion “If a war is extended...our greatest gain will be the Galilee” — Apr. 1948
Extract from a protocol of the provisional government, between March and May 1948 according to the context, providing for the conquest of the Galilee attributed to the Palestinian state in 1947. - Quotation from David Ben Gurion “Concepts of ours and not ours ...lose their meaning during war” — Feb. 1948
Addressing the leaders of the Jewish National Fund in early February. - Quotation from David Ben Gurion “If we know the family, strike mercilessly, women and children included” — Jan. 1 1948
Exposing its doctrine of reprisals. - 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. - Quotation from David Ben Gurion “Complete transfer without compulsion … is hardly imaginable” — Oct. 15 1941
In a memo titled "Contours of Zionist Politics", he wrote. - Quotation from Arthur Ruppin “I believe in the transfer of entire villages” — June 12 1938
Leading Zionist planner at a Jewish Agency executive meeting. - Quotation from David Ben Gurion “I support compulsory transfer. I don't see anything immoral in it” — June 12 1938
In a joint meeting of the Jewish Agency and the Committee for Zionist Action. - 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. - 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 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 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. - 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 David Ben Gurion “As fighting spread, the exodus was joined by bedouin and fellahin” — 1848
He himself indicates that the Palestinians were driven out in 1848 before the creation of Israel and the entry of Arab troops.