Citations
- Citation de Moshe Dayan “It lies upon the Israeli army to carry out the fight with the object of erecting the Israeli Empire” — 12 fév. 1952
Israel's Minister of Defense and Foreign Affairs on February 12, 1952 on Radio Israel. - Citation de David Ben Gurion “A danger that Israel will be s state without a nation” — 1952
In 1951–52, Ben-Gurion realized that Israel was made up of communities with no shared history that did not constitute a nation. - Citation de David Ben Gurion “It lacks the most basic and primary concepts of civilization” — 27 nov. 1950
Referring to Yemeni Jews in a letter to the first Israeli Chief of Staff, Yigael Yadin. - Citation de Yosef Weitz “Given the massive immigration from the Orient … There are indeed grounds for anxiety” — 19 sep. 1950
Director of the KKL/JNF, expresses in his diary his racist fear of Oriental Jews. - Citation de David Ben Gurion “The ingathering of the exiles brings us the rabble” — avr. 1950
At a meeting of the army high command, explaining that the Jewish 'rabble' must be 'rebuilt'. - Citation de 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. - Citation de 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”. - Citation de David Ben Gurion “Return to Zion and to the Bible is a supreme expression of the rebirth ...of the Jewish people” — 1950
In a writing showing his total identification between "spirituality" and nationalism. - Citation de David Ben Gurion “Our supreme quality, our intellectual and moral advantage” — 1950
In a speech to young Israelis. - Citation de Arthur Lourie “Convince the world that not all of these formerly lived in Israeli territory” — 1950
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. - Citation de Moshe Sharett “The refugees will find their place in the diaspora … The majority will become the dregs” — 1950
Second "moderate" President of Israel. - Citation de Albert Hyamson “The moral … rights of the tenants, who had been resident on that land all along, were ignored” — 1950
Influential Zionist who became Commissioner for Migration in Palestine in 1921, described in 1950 the situation he experienced in the 1920s. - Citation de Collectif “There must be as few Arabs on as few lands as possible” — 26 déc. 1949
Text of the (Israeli) Refugee Resettlement Agency about the Palestinians who remained on the soil of Palestine, now Israel. - Citation de Zalman Lifshitz “Just as the Bedouin of the Negev ... so also are the names not rooted there” — 29 juil. 1949
Chairman of the Committee created eleven days earlier to erase the Arab toponymy of Palestine. - Citation de David Ben Gurion “I doubt if there is any Jewish community which has more thieves than the Polish ones” — 13 juil. 1949
During a session of the "Knesset Committee for the Constitution, Law and Justice", he called Moroccan Jews "savages", but soon recovered as follows. - Citation de Yitzhak Gruenbaum “By bringing Yemenites, 70% of whom are sick, we are doing no good” — juil. 1949
Member of the Knesset, during the debate on the emigration of Yemeni Jews, in a speech mimicking the Nazi discourse on "lice-bitten Jews". - Citation de Walter Eytan “My main purpose was to begin to undermine the protocol of 12 May” — 13 juin 1949
Co-Director General of the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs, explaining in June 1949 the deception to get Israel admitted to the UN. - Citation de Yaakov Zrubavel “Perhaps these are not the Jews we would like to see coming here” — 5 juin 1949
Head of the Middle East Department of the Jewish Agency, talking about Oriental Jewish immigrants. - Citation de Yosef Weitz “Solved by itself by the return to the villages of the [land’s] owners” — 27 mai 1949
One year after the expulsion of the Palestinians, the head of the KKL/JNF acknowledges that the expelled Palestinians are the rightful owners of the land, but urges the government to prevent any return. - Citation de Harry Truman “I am rather disgusted with the manner in which the Jews are approaching the refugee problem” — 11 avr. 1949
President of the United States, in response to Mark Ethridge, President of the Palestine Conciliation Commission, in an inconsequential manifestation of mood…. - Citation de Martin Buber “We will have to face the reality that Israel is neither innocent, nor redemptive” — mar. 1949
Jewish philosopher, addressing David Ben Gurion in March 1949. The translation indicates 'diaspora' when it is about exile. - Citation de Chaim Weizmann “Viz ; the Jews take over the country” — 1949
Chaim Weizmann, the main Zionist lobbyist during the First World War, explained in March 1915, in a letter to the editor of the Manchester Guardian, his plan to use Great Britain as a protector for the development of the Zionist settlement in Palestine. - Citation de Arthur Koestler “One nation solemnly promised to a second nation the country of a third” — 1949
Writer, commenting on the "extravagance" of the Balfour Declaration of 1917 (extravagance approved by Koestler). - Citation de David Ben Gurion “Israël did no expel even one Arab” — 1949
In all his dialogues with western interlocutors. - Citation de David Horowitz “The immigrants are in some ways taking the place of the Arabs” — 1949
Director General of the Ministry of Finance of Israel, in consultation with Ben Gurion. - Citation de Chaim Weizmann “Balfour, Churchill ... believed in the Bible ... we Zionists represented a great tradition” — 1er jan. 1970
Chaim Weizmann, the main Zionist lobbyist in Great Britain during the First World War, recalls, in connection with a polemic against anti-Zionist Jews, that the English Protestant leaders sympathize with the myth of the jewish "return". - Citation de David Ben Gurion “We will not let the Arabs back” — 18 déc. 1948
Then Prime Minister, during a meeting with Yosef Weitz and Ezra Danin. - Citation de Hannah Arendt “The emergence ...of the Herut, closely akin … to the Nazi and Fascist parties” — déc. 1948
Commenting, with Albert Einstein and twenty-six others, on the creation of Herut, the party of Menachem Begin, Yitzhak Shamir, and ancestor of the Likud of Ariel Sharon and Benjamin Netanyahu. - Citation de Albert Einstein “The emergence ...of the Herut, closely akin … to the Nazi and Fascist parties” — déc. 1948
Commenting, with Hannah Arendt and twenty-six others, on the creation of Herut, the party of Menachem Begin, Yitzhak Shamir, and ancestor of the Likud of Ariel Sharon and Benjamin Netanyahu. - Citation de 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. - Citation de Judah Magnes “Refugees should never be made use of as a trump in the hands of politicians” — oct. 1948
Former president of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Reportedly pronounced shortly before his death on October 27, 1948. - Citation de Folke Bernadotte “The right of the Arab refugee to return to the home from which he has been dislodged” — 16 sep. 1948
On the eve of his assassination by LEHI, a revisionist terrorist group that has a museum in Tel Aviv, Folke Bernadotte, the United Nations mediator in Palestine, recalled this “basic justice.”. - Citation de David Ben Gurion “We would not have taken on this war merely for the purpose of enjoying this tiny state” — 16 août 1948
Develops his visions in an interview with Times Magazine (read in full!). - Citation de David Ben Gurion “It turns out that most of the Jews are thieves” — 24 juil. 1948
In an inconsequential statement two months after the proclamation of Israel, just before he became the leader of the thieves. - Citation de David Ben Gurion “Why are there so many Arabs? Why didn't you expel them” — 19 juil. 1948
On his first visit to Nazareth. - Citation de Yitzhak Rabin “The inhabitants of Lydda must be expelled quickly without attention to age” — 12 juil. 1948
As the general leading "Operation Dany", an ethnic cleansing operation to expand the Jewish state, giving the order to implement the expulsion order given the same day with a simple wave of the hand. - Citation de Yitzhak Rabin “Ben Gurion waved his hand in a gesture which said, "Drive them out!"” — 12 juil. 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. - Citation de David Ben Gurion “I will oppose their return also after the war” — 16 juin 1948
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. - Citation de Moshe Sharett “But they do not return. And this is our policy: they do not return” — 16 juin 1948
2nd "moderate" president of Israel. - Citation de Yosef Weitz “His opinion is that we must act ...as to transform the exodus of the Arabs into an established fact” — 28 mai 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. - Citation de David Ben Gurion “Our aim is to smash Lebanon, Trans-Jordan, and Syria” — 24 mai 1948
In his personal notes. More drunk with power than ever after a meeting with his counsellors, he is already anticipating 1967. - Citation de Collectif “The State of Israel … will ensure complete equality of social and political rights to all its inhabitants” — 14 mai 1948
Day of Israel's proclamation of independence. - Citation de David Ben Gurion “We appeal … to the Arab inhabitants of the State of Israel to preserve peace” — 14 mai 1948
Excerpt from the text of the declaration of independence read by Ben Gurion on the afternoon of May 14, 1948, calling for "preserving peace" while hundreds of thousands of Palestinians were killed or expelled. - Citation de Hannah Arendt “The land that would come into being would be something quite other than the dream of world Jewry” — 1er mai 1948
Hostile to territorial Zionism, warns that after the Arab-Israeli War... - Citation de Yosef Weitz “Their inhabitants are afraid and flee like mice” — 21 avr. 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. - Citation de Roscher Lund “The Jews, by virtue of the large reserve ... have an incalculable advantage over the Arabs” — 20 avr. 1948
Norwegian UN expert in Palestine, giving Zionists his assessment of the military situation at the beginning of the Nakba. - Citation de Eliezer Bauer “When adult males were discovered hiding...-they were killed” — 14 avr. 1948
Describing how members of several kibbutzes killed the unarmed peasants of Abu Zureiq without a second thought. No investigation was ever decided upon and the number of Palestinians massacred remains unknown. - Citation de David Ben Gurion “War will also bring in its wake a great change in the distribution of the Arab population” — 6 avr. 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.