Citations

• Citation de David Ben Gurion “If we know the family, strike mercilessly, women and children included” — 1er jan. 1948
  Exposing its doctrine of reprisals.
• Citation de David Ben Gurion “The law is whatever people determine it to be” — 1948
  Replying to Pinhas Rosen on the issue of borders on the eve of independence. Israel has still not declared borders...
• Citation de David Ben Gurion “We could accomplish our aim of cleansing the Galilee” — 1948
  From an Israeli government protocol [that would have been] translated from Hebrew by Israel Shahak.
• Citation de David Ben Gurion “Almost 40 percent non-Jews. Such a composition does not provide a stable basis for a Jewish state” — 30 déc. 1947
  Speech to the Central Committee of Histadrut, expressing the Zionist "democratic" conception and the coming ethnic cleansing.
• Citation de David Ben Gurion “Expulsion of the residents along with the seizure of the place” — 19 déc. 1947
  Barely twenty days after the UN General Assembly voted for the establishment of two states, and one month before the arrival of the first ALA fighters opposed to a Jewish state, Ben-Gurion provided the Haganah with rules of engagement, according to which any attack would result in the material or human destruction of the premises.
• Citation de David Ben Gurion “At least 80% Jews for a viable and stable state” — 3 déc. 1947
  In a speech to the leading members of the Mapai party, Ben-Gurion clearly indicated the ethnic objective to be achieved in the wake of the UN partition plan.
• Citation de David Ben Gurion “Every school child knows that there is no such thing in history as a final arrangement” — 3 déc. 1947
  Writes in his diary, four days after the 1947 UN partition plan and its "acceptance" by Israel.
• Citation de Menachem Begin “Eretz Israel will be restored to the people of Israel. All of it. And for Ever” — 30 nov. 1947
  Leader of the terrorist group Irgun (later Prime Minister), the day after the vote on UN Resolution 181.
• Citation de Chaim Weizmann “I am certain that the world will judge the Jewish State by what it will do with the Arabs” — 28 nov. 1947
  On November 26, 1947, in New York, on the occasion of his 73rd birthday, Weizmann reassured the good consciences three days before the vote of the UN General Assembly. This did not prevent him from becoming the first president of Israel in the aftermath of the ethnic cleansing (Nakba) of 1948.
• Citation de Yehuda Leib Maimon “The Promised Land extends from the River of Egypt to the Euphrates” — 9 juil. 1947
  Rabbi, member of the Jewish Agency for Palestine, in his testimony before the UN Commission of Inquiry in 1947.
• Citation de David Ben Gurion “Consider … a Jewish state in a part ...while reaffirming our right to the whole of Palestine” — 8 juil. 1947
  Before the UN commission (UNSCOP) that came to investigate in Palestine.
• Citation de Gandhi “They have erred grievously in seeking to impose themselves on Palestine” — 14 juil. 1946
  In 1946, Gandhi said of the Jews that “the world should have been their home”, and estimates that they ‘erred greviously’ in “seeking to impose themselves on Palestine with the aid of America and Britain, and now with the help of naked terrorism”.
• Citation de Harry Truman “I do not have hundreds of thousands of Arabs among my constituents” — 10 nov. 1945
  President of the USA, in front of the Arab ambassadors.
• Citation de Hannah Arendt “Only folly could ... trusts a distant imperial power for protection” — oct. 1945
  In her book "Zionism Reconsidered", she wrote.
• Citation de Berl Katznelson “Was not Kibbutz Merhavia built on a transfer?” — 7 juil. 1944
  Leader of mainstream Zionism, editor of daily Davar and founder of Am Oved, Katznelson advocated openly the « transfer » of Palestinians. Here he reminds that Palestinians of al-Fula were expelled before WWI.
• Citation de Yitzhak Tabenkin “Our aim is the entire Land of Israel on both banks of the Jordan” — mar. 1944
  One of the founders of the kibbutz movement, summarizing the imperial objective.
• Citation de Martin
  Buber “As many Jews as it is possible … but not in order to establish a majority against a minority” — 1944
  Advocating colonization as intense as possible but against all likelihood, without "establishing a majority".
• Citation de Yitzhak Gruenbaum “NO! and I say again, NO! Not one cow here for ten thousand Jews in Germany” — 18 fév. 1943
  Chairman of the Rescue Committee of the Jewish Agency, in an address to the Zionist Executive Council.
• Citation de Yitzhak Gruenbaum “Let them say that I am anti-Semitic” — 18 jan. 1943
  Chairman of the Rescue Committee of the Jewish Agency during World War II, addressing the Zionist Executive Committee in response to Rabbi Ishe Meir Levin d'Agudat Yisrael.
• Citation de Ronald Storrs “A little loyal Jewish Ulster in a sea of potentially hostile Arabism” — 1943
  The first British governor of Jerusalem, comments on the British logic behind the decision of the Balfour Declaration of 1917.
• Citation de David Ben Gurion “The catastrophe of the European Jewry is not, in a direct manner, my business” — déc. 1942
  Fewer Jews in Europe? It is annoying for the Zionist colonization….
• Citation de Walter [Lord Moyne] Guinness “Racial domination by these newcomers over the original inhabitants” — 9 juin 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.
• Citation de David Ben Gurion “Complete transfer without compulsion … is hardly imaginable” — 15 oct. 1941
  In a memo titled "Contours of Zionist Politics", he wrote.
• Citation de Yosef Weitz “Without ... transfer … we will not be able to solve our question by land buying” — 13 fév. 1941
  Director of the Jewish National Fund (KKL/JNF), in his diary dated February 13, 1941.
• Citation de Yosef Weitz “Not one village must be left, not one [Bedouin] tribe” — 20 déc. 1940
  Director of the Jewish National Fund (KKL/JNF), one of the main architects of the "transfer" and destruction of Palestinian villages in 1948. In his diary (conversation with Zalman Lifschitz).
• Citation de Berl Katznelson “Unable to fight even for a few days for small things like Hebrew schools” — déc. 1940
  Publisher of the daily Davar, violently attacks Polish Jews in the territories conquered by the Soviet Union, showing where his priorities are heading.
• Citation de Berl Katznelson “The day of the Patria sinking … was the biggest Zionist action in recent times” — 26 nov. 1940
  Berl Katznelson, the ideological leader of the labor movement, wrote to Shaul Avigur, one of the leaders of the Haganah, the day after the shipwreck of the Patria, caused by the Haganah and which claimed 250 victims.
• Citation de Vladimir Jabotinsky “There is no choice: the Arabs must make room for the Jews in Eretz Yisrael” — 9 nov. 1939
  A Zionist leader with a fascist leaning, for a long time opposed to the idea of the necessity and even usefulness of a transfer, even if not forced. At the end of the 1930s his views changed. In the notes of a meeting with Shlomo Klinger, a member of the presidency of the New Zionist Organization, he writes.
• Citation de David Ben Gurion “At the beginning of the war… the establishment of a Jewish state” — 12 sep. 1939
  Twelve days after the outbreak of World War II, Ben Gurion indicated what the Zionist objective in this war would be: to establish a Jewish state.
• Citation de David Ben Gurion “For me, Zionist considerations take precedence over Jewish sentiments” — 11 sep. 1939
  Speaking before the executive committee of Histadrut against the recruitment of Jews into the allied troops.
• Citation de David Ben Gurion “We shall fight the White Paper as though there was no war” — sep. 1939
  Pronounced by Ben Gurion at the beginning of World War II.
• Citation de Yitzhak Tabenkin “The ideals of Hitler which I like: ethnic homogeneity …. for the sake of an international order” — 29 août 1939
  Charismatic leader of the kibbutz movement, admirer of the Stalinist and Nazi ethnic cleansings.
• Citation de David Ben Gurion “We don't belong to that Jewish people. We don't want to be that sort of Jew” — août 1939
  During the XX Zionist congress held in Geneva one month before World War II.
• Citation de Albert Einstein “We must strive for a just and lasting compromise with the Arab people” — 1939
  In 1939, Albert Einstein was frightened by the gap between his idealism and real Zionism.
• Citation de David Ben Gurion “If Palestine will not absorb them another territory will. Zionism is endangered” — 17 déc. 1938
  Letter to the Zionist Executive expressing the fear that Palestine might not be the only solution to the rescue of European Jews.
• Citation de David Ben Gurion “Save … only half of them ... by transporting them to Eretz Yisrael, then I would opt for the second alternative” — 7 déc. 1938
  One month after the Nazi Kristallnacht pogrom, in a speech delivered in London (meeting of MAPAM leaders).
• Citation de Gandhi “The cry for the national home for the Jews does not make much appeal to me” — 26 nov. 1938
  In a text in the newspaper Harijan exposing his position on the "Arab-Jewish question".
• Citation de Chaim Weizmann “We don’t want Tel Aviv to become another low-grade ghetto” — oct. 1938
  In the autumn issue of the official British publication New Judea, reporting on a statement made in Poland.
• Citation de Menahem Ussishkin “We cannot start the Jewish state ... of which the Arabs ... constitute almost half” — 12 juin 1938
  Delegate of Moscow to the first Zionist Congress, President of the Jewish National Fund.
• Citation de Arthur Ruppin “I believe in the transfer of entire villages” — 12 juin 1938
  Leading Zionist planner at a Jewish Agency executive meeting.
• Citation de Berl Katznelson “Arabs will get equal rights ... only (if) a small minority of Arabs will remain” — 12 juin 1938
  One of Mapai's top leaders comments on what would happen if the Peel Partition Plan is implemented.
• Citation de David Ben Gurion “I support compulsory transfer. I don't see anything immoral in it” — 12 juin 1938
  In a joint meeting of the Jewish Agency and the Committee for Zionist Action.
• Citation de Menahem Ussishkin “No hope that this new Jewish State will survive ... if the Arabs are as numerous” — 12 juin 1938
  Director of the Jewish Agency, at a meeting of the Jewish Agency Executive on the recommendation of the Peel Commission.
• Citation de Menahem Ussishkin “To take a part of the Arabs and transfer and settle them … is as moral as can be” — 12 juin 1938
  Head of the Executive Committee of the World Zionist Organization, at a meeting of the Jewish Agency's executive committee, advocates that the British should proceed with the expulsion of 60,000 Palestinian families.
• Citation de Moshe Sharett “We will ensure an absolute Hebrew majority in a parliamentary regime” — 9 juin 1938
  During an executive meeting of the Jewish Agency, stresses the importance of a reduction in the number of Palestinians during a period of transition to absolute Jewish rule.
• Citation de David Ben Gurion “The more we emphasize the terrible distress of the Jewish masses …  So be silent” — juin 1938
  Commenting before the executive of the Jewish Agency on his wishes for the Jewish Rescue Conference that was about to open in Evian.
• Citation de Stephen Wise “No Jewish organisation would … sponsor a bill which would ...alter the immigration laws” — avr. 1938
  Rabbi, leader of the American Jewish Congress and main spokesman for Zionism in the USA, in a letter addressed to elected Democrats in the aftermath of the Anchluss.
• Citation de Albert Einstein “I should much rather see agreement with the Arabs ... than the creation of a Jewish state” — 1938
  In a speech to the National Labor Committee for Palestine in New York City.
• Citation de David Ben Gurion “We shall abolish partition and expand to the whole of Palestine” — 1938
  In a note to the Jewish Agency.
• Citation de David Ben Gurion “Politically we are the aggressors and they defend themselves” — 1938
  Speech in 1938.