Quotations
- Quotation from Ofer Akunis “I resolutely oppose … a Palestinian state in the place where our nation was born” — Mar. 8 2014
Minister of Science, Technology and Space (2019). - Quotation from Ze'ev Elkin “The 1967 borders are Auschwitz borders” — Jan. 2 2014
Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, in turn exploiting the "Auschwitz" image to justify colonization. - Quotation from Ze'ev Elkin “The basic situation is that this territory belongs to us” — Oct. 24 2013
Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs writing for a new periodical. - Quotation from Danny Danon “Giving up most of Judea… the current Likud leadership will not accept that” — Sep. 18 2013
Minister of Science, Technology and Space. - Quotation from Ofer Akunis “I will oppose any outline that includes two states” — Aug. 27 2013
Minister Without Portfolio. - Quotation from Uri Ariel “We can and will market thousands of [settlement] apartments” — Aug. 12 2013
Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development. - Quotation from Shimon Gapso “I’m a proud offshoot of a glorious dynasty of racists” — Aug. 7 2013
Mayor of Nazareth Illith. Explaining in substance, perhaps at the end of a well drunk evening, that he is the continuator of a long line of racists. - Quotation from Eli Ben-Dahan “Palestinians are beasts, they are not human.” — Aug. 1 2013
Vice-Minister of Defense in 2013, Rabbi. - Quotation from Gila Gamliel “I disagree with the word occupation” — Jul. 30 2013
Minister for Senior Citizens. - Quotation from David Lau “The kushim who get paid in Tel Aviv beat the kushim who get paid in Greece” — Jul. 30 2013
Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of Israel, urging Jews to read the Torah (the Talmud) instead of watching basketball games. - Quotation from Ze'ev Elkin “I certainly think a Palestinian state is no solution” — Jul. 29 2013
Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs. - 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 Uri Ariel “State clearly that there won't be a Palestinian state west of the Jordan River” — Jul. 11 2013
Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development (colonist, former Secretary of the Yesha Council), at a Yesha meeting. - Quotation from Yariv Levin “At the end … whatever remains will be merely marginal appendage” — June 11 2013
Minister of Tourism and Relations with the Knesset, spokesman for the government coalition. - Quotation from Danny Danon “About the two-state solution... Today we’re not fighting it” — June 6 2013
Deputy Minister of Defence. - Quotation from Ze'ev Elkin “We will try to apply sovereignty over the maximum” — Mar. 20 2013
Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs. - Quotation from Danny Danon “To strengthen the settlements in Judea and Samaria, in the Negev and in the Galilee” — Mar. 18 2013
Minister of Science, Technology and Space. - Quotation from Naftali Bennett “There is not going to be a Palestinian state within the tiny land of Israel” — Jan. 7 2013
Minister of Education, Jerusalem and Diaspora Affairs. - Quotation from Tzipi Hotovely “We are opposed to a Palestinian state” — Dec. 31 2012
Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Netanyahu government of 2015. - 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 Danny Danon “Land-for-peace is over. We don't want a Palestinian State” — Oct. 2 2012
Minister of Science, Technology and Space, in an interview on Israel National Radio. - Quotation from Danny Danon “The long-term vision is ... Jewish sovereignty over the communities ... of Judea and Samaria” — Sep. 13 2012
Minister of Science, Technology and Space. - 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 Tzipi Hotovely “We need to demand sovereignty over all parts of Judea and Samaria” — Jul. 12 2012
Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Netanyahu government in 2015. - Quotation from Eli Yishai “This country belongs to us, to the white man” — June 3 2012
Minister of the Interior, member of the ultra-Orthodox Sephardic Shas party, speaking about migrants from Africa, and exalting a so-called Jewish "racial purity". - Quotation from Eli Yishai “I sound like a racist, a benighted man or a xenophobe” — May 31 2012
Israeli Interior Minister, in a call to protect the "Zionist dream" against migrants. - Quotation from Silvan Shalom “We are all against a Palestinian state” — May 18 2012
Interior Minister in charge of 'negotiations' with the Palestinians in 2015, talking to Likud activists in 2012. - Quotation from Aharon Shteinman “Did God create the world for these murderers? ” — May 2012
Spiritual leader of the Degel Hatorah faction of the United Torah Party - a member of the government at the time - explaining that the world was created for people... who study Torah, the others being murderers, thieves or fools. - Quotation from Ayelet Shaked “Do you hope he'll be pounding the Arabs hard with bombs? Laughter "Yes"” — Jan. 2012
Minister of Justice. On Channel 2, answering the question " " When your husband the pilot is at the controls of his plane, would you like him to violently bomb the Arabs?. - Quotation from Shlomo Gazit “The legal system … is actually maintaining an apartheid regime” — Jul. 19 2011
Former Major General and Director of the Jewish Agency, who became a member of Yesh Din. - Quotation from Miri Regev “The Land of Israel belongs … not only to the Jews who live in that land” — May 24 2011
Minister of Culture and Sports, then Minister of Transportation, recalling the goal of Zionism. - Quotation from Moshe Kahlon “We should annex all the territories that same day” — Apr. 28 2011
Minister of Finance, then Minister of Communications, at a meeting with Likud youth on what Israel should do if the Palestinians declare their independence. - Quotation from Ovadia Yossef “Goyim were born only to serve us” — Oct. 2010
Sephardic Chief Rabbi of Israel, during his Saturday night sermon, on different dates. - Quotation from Naftali Bennett “When you were still climbing trees, we had here a Jewish state” — Sep. 2010
At the time leader of the Zionist-religious party Our Home, addressing in a typically racist manner the Palestinian deputy of Israel Mohamed Tibi during a televised meeting. - Quotation from Desmond Tutu “Conditions we experienced in South Africa under the racist system of Apartheid” — Apr. 9 2010
South African Archbishop, in a letter to Emily Schaeffer for Berkeley students. - Quotation from Ovadia Yossef “They’re stupid. Their religion is as ugly as they are” — Dec. 2009
Former Sephardic Chief Rabbi, about Muslims, during a Saturday evening sermon. - 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 Anastassia Michaeli “Judaism is at the basis of … this country to begin with. It's not just a religion” — Jul. 15 2009
Member of Parliament for Yisrael Beiteinu. - Quotation from Ariel Atias “A national duty to prevent the spread of a population that … does not love Israel” — Jul. 2 2009
Member of the Religious Zionist Party Shah. - Quotation from Benzion Netanyahu “They only call themselves people in order to fight the Jew” — Apr. 3 2009
Father of Benyamin Netanyahu, former personal secretary of right-wing leader Vladimir Jabotinsky, in an interview for the Maariv newspaper. - Quotation from Eli Yishai “Even if they fire ... into the sea, we must … destroy 100 houses” — Feb. 2 2009
Then Deputy Prime Minister and deputy of the Shas religious party, openly advocating the escalation of violence. - 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 Tzipi Livni “Real hooliganism during the course of the recent operation, which I demanded” — Jan. 19 2009
In a statement to the Israeli media at a time when more than 1,000 Palestinians in Gaza have already died. - Quotation from Ahmad Tibi “Israel is a democracy for Jews and a Jewish state for Arabs ” — 2009
Leader of palestinian israeli’s Ta’al party, elected as Knesset member since 1999. The first occurrence of his say is unknown. - 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 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.