Quotations
- Quotation from Ayelet Shaked “We should manage the conflict and not give up on any centimetre of land” — Feb. 3 2015
Minister of Justice of the Netanyahu government, in a pre-election discussion. In coded language, "perfection" is the expulsion of the Palestinians. - 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 Amitai Karanik “In wartime, there is no civilian population” — Oct. 2014
Major of the Israeli army, exposing the doctrine implemented against the Palestinians of Gaza. - Quotation from Desmond Tutu “These tools – BDS – ultimately proved effective ” — Aug. 14 2014
South African Archbishop, in an article written for Haaretz daily newspaper. - Quotation from Moshe Feiglin “Gaza and its suburbs will be rebuilt as Israeli touristic and commercial sites” — Aug. 5 2014
Leader of Manhigut Yehudit (Jewish Leadership), an emanation of the Likud. - Quotation from Benyamin Netanyahu “All civilian casualties are unintended by us but actually intended by Hamas” — Jul. 20 2014
In an interview on CNN with Wolf Biltzer, developing with maximum cynicism that Hamas is responsible for Palestinian civilian deaths. - Quotation from Moshe Feiglin “Gaza will become part of sovereign Israel” — Jul. 15 2014
Settler in the West Bank, leader of Manhigut Yehudit (Jewish Leadership), an offshoot of the Likud, for whom the "solution" is none other than the ethnic cleansing of the two million Palestinians in Gaza. - Quotation from Benyamin Netanyahu “I think the Israeli people understand now what I always say” — Jul. 11 2014
At a press conference, made it clear that he could never under any circumstances approve a fully sovereign Palestinian state in the West Bank. - Quotation from Noam Perel “An army of avengers … that will not stop at 300 Philistine foreskins” — Jul. 2 2014
Rabbi of Jerusalem, Secretary General of the World Bnei Akiva, using the Bible as a guide for a call to slaughter. - Quotation from Ayelet Shaked “The entire Palestinian people are the enemy, including its elderly and its women” — Jul. 1 2014
Minister of Justice of the Netanyahu government, quoting in extenso and approving an article by Uri Elitzur from 2002 that promoted the complete destruction of the Palestinian people. - Quotation from Uri Elitzur “What’s so horrifying about understanding that the entire Palestinian people is the enemy” — June 30 2014
Chief of Staff, writer and close advisor to Netanyahu, spokesperson for the settlers, in a 2002 text with genocidal connotations proudly published in June 2014 by Ayelet Shaked shortly before she was appointed Minister of Justice. - 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 Uri Ariel “In five years there will be 550,000 or 600,000 Jews in Judea and Samaria” — May 16 2014
Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, during a radio interview. - Quotation from Yariv Levin “A clear Israeli law will...show our insistence that we are a Jewish state” — Mar. 14 2014
Minister of Tourism and Public Security, anticipating the apartheid law of 2018. - Quotation from Uri Ariel “West of the Jordan River there will only be one state and that is the state of Israel” — Mar. 10 2014
Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, during a commemorative speech. - 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.