Dehumanizing the Palestinians
- Quotation from Arieh King “Bury all those hundreds of Nazis ants alive” — Dec. 7 2023
Born in the Maale Adumim settlement, Arieh King founded the Israel Land Fund to support the eviction of Palestinians from Jerusalem. Deputy mayor since 2020, in charge of East Jerusalem, he promotes the emigration of Palestinians from their country. - Quotation from Antony Blinken “Executed, then their executioner sat down and had a meal.” — Oct. 31 2023
Antony Blinken, U.S. Secretary of State, before the Senate Appropriations Committee, repeats the statements of a proven liar, Yossi Landau. - Quotation from Benyamin Netanyahu “They are the people of darkness” — Oct. 25 2023
In this statement, Netanyahu mixes a piece of biblical oracle with the clash of civilizations to justify his intention to crush the Palestinian people imprisoned in the Gaza Strip. - Quotation from Yoav Gallant “We are fighting human animals” — Oct. 9 2023
Defense Minister, member of the Likud party, announcing the start of the worst suffering for the two million Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. - Quotation from Eliezer Kashtiel “Being a slave to a Jew is the best” — Apr. 29 2019
Rabbi paid by the State of Israel, director of the subsidized religious military school Bnei David located in the Eli settlement, teaching to consider all non-Jews as defective and promised to slavery. - Quotation from Benyamin Netanyahu “We see the leaders in Gaza calling for the killing of all Jews around the world” — Jul. 6 2016
At a press conference in Kigali with Paul Kagame, where he replays the false propaganda about a new Jewish genocide. - Quotation from Benyamin Netanyahu “What should I do with them?" and the mufti replied: Burn them” — Oct. 21 2015
During a speech before the World Jewish Congress, he cleared Hitler's name by inventing that the Mufti is the real author of the genocide of the Jews of Europe. - Quotation from Avigdor Lieberman “Those who are against us ...we need to pick up an ax and cut off his head” — Mar. 8 2015
Talking about Palestinians "citizens" of Israel, during an election rally. - Quotation from Benyamin Netanyahu “All civilian casualties are unintended by us but actually intended by Hamas” — Jul. 20 2014
In an interview on CNN with Wolf Biltzer, developing with maximum cynicism that Hamas is responsible for Palestinian civilian deaths. - Quotation from Ayelet Shaked “The entire Palestinian people are the enemy, including its elderly and its women” — Jul. 1 2014
Minister of Justice of the Netanyahu government, quoting in extenso and approving an article by Uri Elitzur from 2002 that promoted the complete destruction of the Palestinian people. - Quotation from Uri Elitzur “What’s so horrifying about understanding that the entire Palestinian people is the enemy” — June 30 2014
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 Eli Ben-Dahan “Palestinians are beasts, they are not human.” — Aug. 1 2013
Vice-Minister of Defense in 2013, Rabbi. - Quotation from Naftali Bennett “I’ve killed lots of Arabs in my life – and there’s no problem with that” — Jul. 21 2013
Minister of Economy and leader of the Foyer Juif party, in a dialogue on a prisoner's release. - Quotation from Eli Yishai “We must blow Gaza back to the Middle Ages” — Nov. 17 2012
Then Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of the Interior, deputy of the religious party Shas, white supremacist and homophobe. - Quotation from Moshe Yaalon “The Palestinian threat harbours cancer-like attributes that have to be severed” — Aug. 25 2012
Minister of Defense, before an assembly of rabbis. - Quotation from Yitzhak Shapira “There is a reason to kill babies” — Nov. 9 2009
Kahanist rabbi of Od Yosef Chai Yeshida in Yitzhar settlement, in a book published in 2009 (English title : The King’s Torah). - Quotation from Yitzhak Shapira “There is a reason to kill babies” — Nov. 9 2009
Kahanist rabbi of Od Yosef Chai Yeshida in Yitzhar settlement, in a book published in 2009 (English title : The King’s Torah). - Quotation from Galit Eizenkot “Disproportionate force and immense damage and destruction” — Oct. 3 2008
Major General of the Northern Command, describing what will be the genocidal policy of Israel two months before the massacres of early 2009 in Gaza. - Quotation from Gadi Siboni “With force disproportionate to the enemy's actions” — Oct. 2 2008
Colonel of the army reserve, explaining the "concept" of Israel, common to all colonial regimes in the face of any act of resistance: inflict maximum destruction and hope for calm. - Quotation from Gadi Siboni “With force disproportionate to the enemy's actions” — Oct. 2 2008
Colonel de réserve de l’armée, expliquant le « concept » d’Israël, commun à tous les régimes coloniaux face à tout acte de résistance : infliger le maximum de destructions et en espérer le calme. - Quotation from David Kishik “The tree is the ennemy soldier” — Sep. 7 2006
"Inspector General" from 1984 to 2007 of the Israeli so-called "civil administration" of the occupied Palestinian territories. In 2020, it was reported that he had planted an olive grove on Palestinian lands. https://www.timesofisrael.com/ex-chief-west-bank-land-inspector-planted-groves-on-palestinian-ground/. - Quotation from Yehiel Hazan “These Arabs are like worms” — Dec. 13 2004
Knesset Member of Parliament, Likud, expressing his stupid contempt for earthworms. - Quotation from Moshe Feiglin “The Arab destroys everything he touches” — May 31 2004
Settler in the West Bank and Likud deputy. - Quotation from Efraim Eitam “We will have to kill them all” — May 24 2004
General infamous for his hyper-violence. He was proposed in 2020 by Minister of Higher Education Ze'ev Elkin to head the Yad Vashem memorial. - Quotation from Yehiel Hazan “It’s in their blood – murdering Jews…” — Feb. 25 2004
Member of the Knesset, Likud, coming to support his colleague Ze’ev Boim. - Quotation from Yitzhak Ravid “Implement a stringent policy of family planning in relation to its Muslim population” — Dec. 2003
President of the Rafael Arms Development Authority, in a speech given at the Herzliya conference. - Quotation from Avigdor Lieberman “The prisoners should be drowned” — Jul. 7 2003
Israeli Minister of Transport, on Israeli radio, suggesting drowning the imprisoned Palestinians. - 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 Ovadia Yossef “In the old city of Jerusalem they are swarming like ants. They should go to hell” — Jul. 27 2001
Former Sephardic Chief Rabbi, on the occasion of the commemoration of the destruction of the first temple in the 7th century B.C.E. - Quotation from Ehud Barak “The Palestinians are like crocodiles” — Aug. 28 2000
Then Prime Minister. - Quotation from Ovadia Yossef “How can you make peace with a snake” — Aug. 2000
Ex-Sephardic Chief Rabbi of Israel (1973-1983), who became the spiritual leader” of the religious Shas party, in his Saturday evening sermon, about peace with the Palestinians. - Quotation from Ehud Barak “We still live in a modern and prosperous villa in the middle of the jungle” — Feb. 11 1996
Then Foreign Minister Ehud Barak, addressing the American Zionists by recycling a colonial metaphor to justify Israel's violence. - Quotation from Yaacov Perrin “One million Arabs are not worth a Jewish fingernail” — Feb. 27 1994
Rabbi, leading the funeral service of Baruch Goldstein who had massacred 29 Palestinians in the al-Ibrahimi mosque of al-Khalil/Hebron. - Quotation from Auteur inconnu “They are brutal, wild, alien invaders” — Sep. 6 1989
In a televised speech, Yitzhak Shamir, a terrorist who was elected Prime Minister, pushed denialism to its extreme limit. - Quotation from Yitzhak Shamir “They are like grasshoppers compared to us” — Mar. 31 1988
Former Lehi terrorist, then Prime Minister, in a speech from Herodion to Jewish settlers. - Quotation from Yeshayahu Leibowitz “We are already behaving … in the same way as the Nazis did” — Feb. 5 1988
Israeli Orthodox scientist, moralist and historian, compares Israel's behavior in the occupied territories to that of the Nazis outside Germany. - 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 “The Phalange will organize tiny little houses for the Palestinians” — Sep. 1982
Israeli Chief of Staff, about the Sabra and Shatila massacre in Beirut in 2002. - Quotation from Menachem Begin “Begin described the Palestinians as ‘beasts walking on two legs” — June 25 1982
The former terrorist, in a speech to the Knesset. - Quotation from Moshe Etzioni “The Arabs … do not take much time before they confess. It’s part of their nature” — 1977
Judge of the Supreme Court of Israel, interviewed by Amnesty International on the rate of confessions (indicator of torture). - Quotation from Golda Meir “We cannot forgive them for forcing us to kill their children” — Sep. 1973
In an interview, expresses the baseline of the most despicable Zionist racism. - Quotation from Moshe Sharett “ I can imagine the storm that will break out tomorrow” — Oct. 15 1953
In the aftermath of the Qibya massacre - 69 dead - caused by Ariel Sharon's Unit 101, Moshe Sharett, then Minister of Foreign Affairs, reserved his helplessness and scruples for his diary. - Quotation from Moshe Sharett “The refugees will find their place in the diaspora … The majority will become the dregs” — 1950
Second "moderate" President of Israel. - Quotation from Yosef Weitz “Their inhabitants are afraid and flee like mice” — Apr. 21 1948
At the same time as he participates in the ethnic cleansing of Palestine, the KKL/JNF leader cherishes the idea that the expellees will identify with the expellers. - Quotation from Chaim Weizmann “There are some hundred thousand negroes and for those there is no value” — May 20 1936
President of the Zionist Executive, questioned by Arthur Ruppin on the circumstances of the Balfour Declaration of 1917. - Quotation from JEWISH CHRONICLE “To know the habits and dispositions of the animals, and to be sure that the cages were secure” — 1921
An organ of British Judaism, uses the zoological language of the colonizers when speaking of the Palestinians following the anti-Zionist riots in Jaffa in 1921, which resulted in deaths on both sides. - Quotation from Abba Kovner “We will be marching in the stream of the invaders’ blood.” — Jul. 1848
This type of call to massacre came from Abba Kovner, who unsuccessfully attempted to organize a revolt in the Jewish ghetto of Vilnius (Lithuania) in 1942-43. In 1945, with the help of the Zionist "Jewish Brigade", he organized a group, "Nakam", which aimed, also unsuccessfully, to indiscriminately kill a large number of Germans under the motto "that's what they deserve". In 1948, he left for Palestine, where, as head of education for the Givati brigade, he poured out his anti-Arab hatred (citation) against the Egyptians who had belatedly come to the aid of the Palestinians expelled by the Nakba. Abba Kovner is celebrated by Israel as a poet and national hero.