International law does not matter
- Quotation from Dorit Beinisch “The Supreme Court never decided that the settlements are not legal” — Apr. 19 2024
Dorit Beinisch, President of the Israeli Supreme Court from 2006 to 2012, reminds us that the Court defends Zionist principles, not international law. - Quotation from Benyamin Netanyahu “Anti-Semitic edicts by the International Criminal Court” — Dec. 22 2019
In front of the Wailing Wall, in the presence of US Ambassador David Friedman, openly lying about the referral to the International Criminal Court. - 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 Ayelet Shaked “Zionism should not continue to bow down to the system of individual rights” — Aug. 29 2017
Minister of Justice, in an attack on the Supreme Court, which had approved the deportation of African migrants but refused to imprison them for more than two months if they refused. - 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 Tzipi Livni “I was the minister of justice. I am a lawyer … But I am against law” — June 7 2014
Former Minister of Justice, participant in the "negotiations" with the Palestinian Authority in Nov. 2007, speaking about her response to the request to include international law. - Quotation from Ehud Olmert “Commanders and soldiers are safe from tribunals” — Jan. 25 2009
Prime Minister of Israel, reassures the army one week after the end of the massacres in Gaza (December 27, 2008-January 18, 2019): as in the past, no prosecution is to be feared. This began with a ban on publishing photos or information about the identity of the leaders of units engaged in the fighting in Gaza. The faces of the soldiers were blurred. - Quotation from Anis Sayegh “They said their ally Britain would resolves the issues” — 2009
Publisher of the Palestinian Encyclopedia, about the call of Prince Abdullah and the Imam of Yemen to end the 1936 strike. - Quotation from Dov Weissglas “This whole package called the Palestinian state ...has been removed from our agenda” — Oct. 6 2004
Advisor to Sharon, Ariel, in an interview with Haaretz. - 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 “No one has the right to put the Jewish people and the State of Israel on trial” — Mar. 25 2001
On Israeli radio, criticizing the coming of the Mitchell Commission, which he calls a "historical error". - Quotation from Elias Sanbar “The Palestinians, who have agreed to give up part of their land” — Oct. 12 2000
Palestinian participant in the negotiations around the Oslo Accords, expresses in this interview with Zeev Sternhell his hope - his illusions - that Zionists may comply with international law. - Quotation from Arieh Biro “There was no choice but to kill them. This is not such a big deal” — Aug. 21 1995
Former Israeli Brigadier General, talking about the massacres of the 1956 Sinai War. - Quotation from Yitzhak Rabin “Expel… 25, not to mention 400 people” — Feb. 8 1993
44 years after ordering the mass expulsion of Palestinians from Lydda, Yitzhak Rabin boasted to a BBC reporter that he had illegally thrown 415 Palestinians, alleged members of the Hamas party, out of their country. - Quotation from Yitzhak Shamir “Settling the Jews up to where the horizon extends” — Sep. 25 1991
Then Prime Minister of Israel, in the daily Haaretz, announces the intention of unlimited Jewish settlement. - Quotation from Yitzhak Shamir “The whole Land of Israel belongs to us” — Sep. 17 1991
Then Prime Minister of Israel, interviewed by the daily Hadashot. "Land of Israel", as undefined as "Biblical Lands", extends beyond the Palestine of the British Mandate. - Quotation from Henry Kissinger “The first step should be to throw out television, a la South Africa” — Jan. 31 1988
U.S. Secretary of State from 1973 to 1977 then influential consultant, talking about the 1st Palestinian Intifada, according to a memo whose content has not been denied by the person concerned; translating the extremism of organized American Zionism. - Quotation from Menachem Begin “In your country there are many cities with biblical names” — Jul. 19 1977
In his first meeting with US President Jimmy Carter at the White House, exploiting the relationship with Christian Zionism and biblical religious roots. - Quotation from Yehoshafat Harkabi “Our demands … must involve such conditions as to ensure that the enemy rejects them” — Nov. 2 1973
Former head of military intelligence, explaining that for Israel, negotiating is tantamount to pushing to surrender. - Quotation from Chaim Herzog “For the Jews of this land there cannot be any partner” — 1972
Nine years before his election as President of Israel, summarizes Israeli diplomacy. - Quotation from Golda Meir “This country exists as the fulfillment of a promise made by God Himself” — Oct. 15 1971
Prime Minister at the time, Golda Meir, although an atheist, makes her religion when it comes to justifying Israel. - Quotation from Bertrand Russell “No people anywhere in the world would accept being expelled en masse from their own country” — Jan. 31 1970
Message to the International Conference of Parliamentarians in Cairo (Feb. 70), written just before his death (excerpt). - Quotation from Abba Eban “Condemn us to start a preventive war” — 1970
Giving an extensive justification to any war of aggression. - Quotation from Abba Eban “The June (1967) map a memory of Auschwitz” — Nov. 5 1969
Interview by the periodical Der Spiegel. Since 1969, Zionist publications have summarized this quote with the expression "Auschwitz Borders" to talk about what Israel would have been like before 1967, in order to justify the occupation. This absurd expression was repeated by Israeli ministers (Uri Landau, Zeev Elkin) after 2010. - Quotation from Abba Eban “If the General Assembly were to vote by 121 votes to 1 ... Israel would refuse to comply” — June 19 1967
Israeli Minister of Foreign Affairs, repeating Zionism's contempt for the application of international law. - Quotation from Martin Buber “The majority of Jewish people preferred to learn from Hitler rather than from us” — June 2 1958
In front of a Jewish audience in New York (while propagating the myth of the 'return to Palestine'). - Quotation from Moshe Sharett “Let us hope for a new war with the Arab countries” — May 26 1955
Minister for Foreign Affairs 1948-1956, and Prime Minister 1954-1956, paraphrasing on Moshe Dayan's words on the desire for a new war. - Quotation from Moshe Sharett “The long chain of false incidents and hostilities we have invented” — Dec. 22 1954
Moderate" Prime Minister, in his newspaper, following the hijacking of a civilian plane by Israel. - Quotation from David Ben Gurion “Let me first tell you one thing: it doesn't matter what the world says about Israel” — 1953
Addressing Ariel Sharon, who had just killed 69 Palestinian civilians in Kibya in 1953 by locking them up and blowing up their homes; as reported by Sharon. - Quotation from David Ben Gurion “We do not fit the general pattern of humanity” — 1950
In a speech in 1950 exalting the exceptionalism of the "Jewish people”. - Quotation from Walter Eytan “My main purpose was to begin to undermine the protocol of 12 May” — June 13 1949
Co-Director General of the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs, explaining in June 1949 the deception to get Israel admitted to the UN. - Quotation from David Ben Gurion “War will also bring in its wake a great change in the distribution of the Arab population” — Apr. 6 1948
Speaking to the Zionist Action Committee, said that the war and the depopulation of the Palestinians will not stop at the borders of the partition plan. - Quotation from David Ben Gurion “Every school child knows that there is no such thing in history as a final arrangement” — Dec. 3 1947
Writes in his diary, four days after the 1947 UN partition plan and its "acceptance" by Israel. - Quotation from Walter [Lord Moyne] Guinness “Racial domination by these newcomers over the original inhabitants” — June 9 1942
Expressing in the British House of Lords his hostility to the Zionist project. This hostility led to his assassination in Cairo on 6 November 1944 by two Lehi terrorists. The bodies of the two assassins are now buried at the "Monument of Heroes" in Jerusalem. - Quotation from Albert Einstein “Should the Jews not learn to live in peace .. , the struggle against them will follow” — Nov. 25 1929
In a letter to Chaim Weizmann, takes the opposite view of the objectives of real Zionism. - Quotation from Collectif “The non-Jewish population … nearly nine tenths ...are emphatically against the entire Zionist program” — Aug. 29 1919
Report of the American King-Crane Commission of 1919 in Palestine (published in 1922). - Quotation from Harry
Sacher “But if ... democracy were to be applied ..., the majority that would rule would be the arab majority” — 1919
British Zionist leader, in an article for the Zionist Organization, in response to Woodrow Wilson's desire for democracy in war treaties.