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	<title>Above all, no return of the Palestinians</title>
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		<title>Quotation from David Ben Gurion
 “I will oppose their return also after the war” — June 16 1948
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		<link>https://palcit.net/article-1632-i-will-oppose-their-return-also-after-the-war</link>
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		<description> Barely a month after the proclamation of Israel, Ben Gourion, before ten ministers, declared Israel's definitive opposition to the return of refugees to their homes</description>
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		<category>Quotations</category>
		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Mar 2025 09:21:32 GMT</pubDate>
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		<title>Quotation from David Ben Gurion
 “Je m'opposerai à leur retour, même après la guerre.” — June 16 1948
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		<link>https://palcit.net/article-1614-je-m-opposerai-a-leur-retour-meme-apres-la-guerre.</link>
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		<description> A peine un mois après la proclamation d’Israël, Ben Gourion, devant dix ministres, déclare l’opposition définitive d’Israël au retour des réfugiés dans leurs foyers</description>
		<dc:creator>Palcit.net</dc:creator>
		<category>Citations</category>
		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Mar 2025 18:32:29 GMT</pubDate>
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		<title>Quotation from David Ben Gurion
 “We must do everything to ensure that they never do return” — Jul. 17 1948
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		<link>https://palcit.net/article-1322-we-must-do-everything-to-ensure-that-they-never-do-return</link>
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		<description> Note in his diary</description>
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		<category>Quotations</category>
		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Mar 2022 17:58:03 GMT</pubDate>
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		<title>Quotation from David Ben Gurion
 “Nous devons tout faire pour être sûrs qu’ils ne reviennent jamais” — Jul. 17 1948
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		<link>https://palcit.net/article-1321-nous-devons-tout-faire-pour-etre-surs-qu-ils-ne-reviennent-jamais</link>
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		<description> Note dans son journal</description>
		<dc:creator>Palcit.net</dc:creator>
		<category>Citations</category>
		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Mar 2022 17:53:16 GMT</pubDate>
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		<title>Quotation from Yitzhak Pundak
 “Nous avons dû les détruire, sinon nous aurions eu des Arabes ici
” — May 21 2005
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		<link>https://palcit.net/article-629-nous-avons-du-les-detruire-sinon-nous-aurions-eu-des-arabes-ici</link>
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		<description> Brigadier Général, expliquant 56 ans après les faits qu’il ne s’agissait de rien d’autre qu’un nettoyage ethnique</description>
		<dc:creator>Palcit.net</dc:creator>
		<category>Citations</category>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Feb 2022 09:08:53 GMT</pubDate>
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		<title>Quotation from Yitzhak Pundak
 “We had to destroy them, otherwise we would have had Arabs here” — May 21 2004
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		<link>https://palcit.net/article-1110-we-had-to-destroy-them-otherwise-we-would-have-had-arabs-here</link>
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		<description> Brigadier General, explaining 56 years after the events that it was nothing more than ethnic cleansing</description>
		<dc:creator>Palcit.net</dc:creator>
		<category>Quotations</category>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Apr 2021 16:17:27 GMT</pubDate>
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		<wfw:comment>https://palcit.net/comments/post.php/article/1110</wfw:comment>
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		<title>Quotation from Moshe Dayan
 “All our settlements are built on the ruins of Palestinian villages” — Apr. 1969
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		<link>https://palcit.net/article-959-all-our-settlements-are-built-on-the-ruins-of-palestinian-villages</link>
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		<description> Talking to students of the Haifa Technion about the Palestinian villages destroyed in 1948 </description>
		<dc:creator>Palcit.net</dc:creator>
		<category>Quotations</category>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Apr 2021 15:30:45 GMT</pubDate>
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		<wfw:comment>https://palcit.net/comments/post.php/article/959</wfw:comment>
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		<title>Quotation from Maurice Samuel
 “We needed the maximum number of Jews, in shambles, everywhere and everywhere” — 1953
</title>
		<link>https://palcit.net/article-898-we-needed-the-maximum-number-of-jews-in-shambles-everywhere-and-everywhere</link>
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		<description> Zionist writer known for a famous racist &quot;anti-goy&quot; statement &quot;You Gentiles&quot; (1925) speaks of the &quot;opening of the floodgates&quot; to populate Israel as soon as possible after the ethnic cleansing of 1948</description>
		<dc:creator>Palcit.net</dc:creator>
		<category>Quotations</category>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Apr 2021 14:15:57 GMT</pubDate>
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		<wfw:comment>https://palcit.net/comments/post.php/article/898</wfw:comment>
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		<title>Quotation from Michal Katorza
 “A large portion of JNF Parks are … where palestinian villages used to stand” — 2008
</title>
		<link>https://palcit.net/article-1133-a-large-portion-of-jnf-parks-are-where-palestinian-villages-used-to-stand</link>
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		<description> KKL/JNF leader in charge of park signage, recognizing the function of parks, well known to Palestinians </description>
		<dc:creator>Palcit.net</dc:creator>
		<category>Quotations</category>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Apr 2021 05:48:43 GMT</pubDate>
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		<wfw:comment>https://palcit.net/comments/post.php/article/1133</wfw:comment>
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		<title>Quotation from Moshe Sharett
 “But they do not return. And this is our policy: they do not return” — June 16 1948
</title>
		<link>https://palcit.net/article-867-but-they-do-not-return.-and-this-is-our-policy-they-do-not-return</link>
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		<description> 2nd &quot;moderate&quot; president of Israel</description>
		<dc:creator>Palcit.net</dc:creator>
		<category>Quotations</category>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Apr 2021 05:48:43 GMT</pubDate>
		<comments>https://palcit.net/section-14-quotations#comments</comments>
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		<wfw:comment>https://palcit.net/comments/post.php/article/867</wfw:comment>
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		<title>Quotation from Yitzhak Rabin
 “Conditions which would attract natural and voluntary migration of the refugees” — Mar. 16 1983
</title>
		<link>https://palcit.net/article-1010-conditions-which-would-attract-natural-and-voluntary-migration-of-the-refugees</link>
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		<description> Explaining his method of ethnically cleansing the occupied territories without the world shouting</description>
		<dc:creator>Palcit.net</dc:creator>
		<category>Quotations</category>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Apr 2021 05:48:43 GMT</pubDate>
		<comments>https://palcit.net/section-14-quotations#comments</comments>
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		<wfw:comment>https://palcit.net/comments/post.php/article/1010</wfw:comment>
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		<title>Quotation from Arthur Lourie
 “Convince the world that not all of these formerly lived in Israeli territory” — 1950
</title>
		<link>https://palcit.net/article-890-convince-the-world-that-not-all-of-these-formerly-lived-in-israeli-territory</link>
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		<description> Personal secretary of Chaim Weizmann who became Consul General in New York, in a letter to Walter Eitan, Israeli Foreign Ministry, proposes to minimize the number of refugees</description>
		<dc:creator>Palcit.net</dc:creator>
		<category>Quotations</category>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Apr 2021 05:48:43 GMT</pubDate>
		<comments>https://palcit.net/section-14-quotations#comments</comments>
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		<wfw:comment>https://palcit.net/comments/post.php/article/890</wfw:comment>
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		<title>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
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		<link>https://palcit.net/article-866-his-opinion-is-that-we-must-act-...as-to-transform-the-exodus-of-the-arabs-into-an-established-fact</link>
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		<description> KKL-JNF leader in a meeting with newly appointed Foreign Minister Moshe Shertok (Sharett) to formalize the &quot;transfer committee&quot; to make the expulsion of Palestinians irreversible. </description>
		<dc:creator>Palcit.net</dc:creator>
		<category>Quotations</category>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Apr 2021 05:48:43 GMT</pubDate>
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		<wfw:comment>https://palcit.net/comments/post.php/article/866</wfw:comment>
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		<title>Quotation from Harry Truman
 “I am rather disgusted with the manner in which the Jews are approaching the refugee problem” — Apr. 11 1949
</title>
		<link>https://palcit.net/article-880-i-am-rather-disgusted-with-the-manner-in-which-the-jews-are-approaching-the-refugee-problem</link>
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		<description> President of the United States, in response to Mark Ethridge, President of the Palestine Conciliation Commission, in an inconsequential manifestation of mood…</description>
		<dc:creator>Palcit.net</dc:creator>
		<category>Quotations</category>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Apr 2021 05:48:43 GMT</pubDate>
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		<title>Quotation from Menachem Brinker
 “If the right of way back of refugees … then I’d prefer to give up any agreement” — 1996
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		<link>https://palcit.net/article-1048-if-the-right-of-way-back-of-refugees-then-i-d-prefer-to-give-up-any-agreement</link>
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		<description> Academic and co-founder of &quot;Peace Now&quot;, showing the limits of so-called &quot;left-wing&quot; Zionism. </description>
		<dc:creator>Palcit.net</dc:creator>
		<category>Quotations</category>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Apr 2021 05:48:43 GMT</pubDate>
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		<wfw:comment>https://palcit.net/comments/post.php/article/1048</wfw:comment>
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		<title>Quotation from Golda Meir
 “It is better that things are stated clearly and plainly: We shall not let this happen” — Oct. 1961
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		<link>https://palcit.net/article-920-it-is-better-that-things-are-stated-clearly-and-plainly-we-shall-not-let-this-happen</link>
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		<description> Speech to the Knesset </description>
		<dc:creator>Palcit.net</dc:creator>
		<category>Quotations</category>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Apr 2021 05:48:43 GMT</pubDate>
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		<title>Quotation from Bertrand Russell
 “No people anywhere in the world would accept being expelled en masse from their own country” — Jan. 31 1970
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		<link>https://palcit.net/article-964-no-people-anywhere-in-the-world-would-accept-being-expelled-en-masse-from-their-own-country</link>
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		<description> Message to the International Conference of Parliamentarians in Cairo (Feb. 70), written just before his death (excerpt)</description>
		<dc:creator>Palcit.net</dc:creator>
		<category>Quotations</category>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Apr 2021 05:48:43 GMT</pubDate>
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		<wfw:comment>https://palcit.net/comments/post.php/article/964</wfw:comment>
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		<title>Quotation from Judah Magnes
 “Refugees should never be made use of as a trump in the hands of politicians” — Oct. 1948
</title>
		<link>https://palcit.net/article-873-refugees-should-never-be-made-use-of-as-a-trump-in-the-hands-of-politicians</link>
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		<description> Former president of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Reportedly pronounced shortly before his death on October 27, 1948. </description>
		<dc:creator>Palcit.net</dc:creator>
		<category>Quotations</category>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Apr 2021 05:48:43 GMT</pubDate>
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		<title>Quotation from Moshe Sharett
 “The refugees will find their place in the diaspora … The majority will become the dregs” — 1950
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		<link>https://palcit.net/article-891-the-refugees-will-find-their-place-in-the-diaspora-the-majority-will-become-the-dregs</link>
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		<description> Second &quot;moderate&quot; President of Israel </description>
		<dc:creator>Palcit.net</dc:creator>
		<category>Quotations</category>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Apr 2021 05:48:43 GMT</pubDate>
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		<title>Quotation from Gideon Ezra
 “The state of Israel does not intend … to permit a creeping right of return” — Jul. 29 2003
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		<description> Minister without portfolio in the Sharon government, in a select committee, commenting on the law prohibiting the reunification of Palestinian families. </description>
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