Quotations

• Quotation from Gadi Siboni “With force disproportionate to the enemy's actions” — Oct. 2 2008
  Colonel of the army reserve, explaining the "concept" of Israel, common to all colonial regimes in the face of any act of resistance: inflict maximum destruction and hope for calm.
• Quotation from Gadi Siboni “With force disproportionate to the enemy's actions” — Oct. 2 2008
  Colonel de réserve de l’armée, expliquant le « concept » d’Israël, commun à tous les régimes coloniaux face à tout acte de résistance : infliger le maximum de destructions et en espérer le calme.
• Quotation from Michal Katorza “A large portion of JNF Parks are … where palestinian villages used to stand” — 2008
  KKL/JNF leader in charge of park signage, recognizing the function of parks, well known to Palestinians.
• Quotation from Nissim Dahan “We want to Judaize the Wadi Ara area ... The state wants to put this place in order” — 2008
  Head of a local council appointed by the Ministry of the Interior, speaking about the 'Judaization' of the Palestinian majority region of Wadi Ara (Great Triangle).
• Quotation from Ehud Olmert “If the day comes when the two-state solution collapses, the State of Israel is finished” — Nov. 29 2007
  Interviewed by Haaretz at the end of the Annapolis "negotiations".
• Quotation from Meir Sheetrit “Who needs them [Falashas] ? They are all Christians” — Aug. 4 2007
  Interior Minister, flattering anti-black racism, about the prospect of more Falashas immigrating to Israel.
• Quotation from Raleb Majadele “...to sing an anthem that was written for Jews only” — Mar. 17 2007
  Israeli Palestinian, who served as Minister of Science, Culture and Sport from March 2007 to March 2009.
• Quotation from Naftali Tamir “Asia ... Australia and Israel are not - we are basically the white race” — Oct. 13 2006
  Israeli Ambassador to Australia, in an interview with the daily newspaper Haaretz.
• Quotation from David Kishik “The tree is the ennemy soldier” — Sep. 7 2006
  "Inspector General" from 1984 to 2007 of the Israeli so-called "civil administration" of the occupied Palestinian territories. In 2020, it was reported that he had planted an olive grove on Palestinian lands. https://www.timesofisrael.com/ex-chief-west-bank-land-inspector-planted-groves-on-palestinian-ground/.
• Quotation from Benyamin Netanyahu “Make the distinction between terror groups and freedom fighters” — Jul. 21 2006
  Explaining that the Irgun terrorists responsible for King David's bloodbath were "freedom fighters".
• Quotation from Moshe Katsav “We did an injustice to the Ethiopian population by bringing them to the country” — May 3 2006
  President of Israel -coming from Iran-, in a commentary on violence in some sectors of society.
• Quotation from Shulamit Aloni “Israel practices a brutal form of Apartheid ” — May 1 2006
  Knesset member (Meretz), one of the few Israeli personalities to have denounced the occupation regime.
• Quotation from Marek Edelman “Not to atone for the six million Jews murdered in Europe” — Apr. 12 2006
  Member of the Bund, anti-Zionist, leader of the Warsaw ghetto uprising, answering an Israeli journalist who asked him blandly if it was not "logical" that the Jews should do "everything to survive".
• Quotation from Marek Edelman “Kill twenty Arabs as long as one Jew stays alive” — Apr. 12 2006
  Member of the Bund, anti-Zionist, leader of the Warsaw ghetto uprising, answering an Israeli journalist who asked him blandly if it was not "logical" that the Jews should do "everything to survive".
• Quotation from Shlomo Ben Ami “If I were Palestinian I would have rejected Camp David, as well” — Feb. 14 2006
  Former Minister of Foreign Affairs, chief negotiator at Camp David in 2000. In a debate with Norman Finkelstein on "Democracy Now".
• Quotation from Khaled Mechaal “Only after Israel recognises the right of the Palestinians” — Feb. 6 2006
  Two months after Hamas won the Palestinian elections in the occupied territories, its leader indicated the possibility and conditions for a long-term truce with Israel. In the following months, Israel and its supporters ignored these efforts and stepped up the repression.
• Quotation from Ehud Olmert “A Jewish state on part of the Land of Israel ...a binational state on all of the Land” — Jan. 1 2006
  In his New Year's greetings, expressing a wish to avoid South African-style apartheid.
• Quotation from Shaul Mofaz “Show no pity to anyone, even if it causes traffic holdups and anger” — Sep. 6 2005
  Minister of Defense, during a tour of the West Bank.
• Quotation from Shimon Peres “We are disengaging from Gaza because of demography” — Aug. 9 2005
  Explains a fundamental reason for Israel's "disengagement" from Gaza.
• Quotation from Ariel Sharon “This block will always remain a part of Israel” — Jul. 22 2005
  During a visit to the illegal colony of Ariel.
• Quotation from Ovadia Yossef “Blacks will study the Torah? [God said] let’s bring a tsunami and drown them” — Jul. 2005
  Former Sephardic Chief Rabbi of Israel, establishing a divine accounting during a Saturday evening sermon.
• Quotation from Ariel Sharon “We are withdrawing from Gaza ...where there was no chance of establishing a Jewish majority” — June 30 2005
  Speech at the "Cesarea 2005" conference, explaining the reasons for the redeployment out of Gaza.
• Quotation from Ariel Sharon “There's no need to hide behind security arguments” — Apr. 4 2005
  In a preparatory meeting for a racist "family reunification" law, justifying the law that prohibits spouses of Palestinians in Israel from acquiring Israeli citizenship.
• Quotation from Yehiel Hazan “The Arabs are worms ..., underground as well as above” — Dec. 13 2004
  Knesset Member of Parliament, Likud, expressing his stupid contempt for earthworms.
• Quotation from JNF/KKL “The JNF does not have to act with equality” — Dec. 2004
  In its reply to a petition to the Israeli Supreme Court by Adalah, the Legal Center for Minority Rights in Israel, the JNF/KKL asserts a right to discrimination.
• Quotation from Dov  Weissglas “We have in our hands a first-ever American statement that they will be part of Israel” — Oct. 8 2004
  Ariel Sharon's adviser, in an interview by Haaretz, explains in substance that the withdrawal from Gaza is the monkey's money for the USA to turn a blind eye to the colonization of the West Bank.
• Quotation from Dov Weissglas “This whole package called the Palestinian state ...has been removed from our agenda” — Oct. 6 2004
  Advisor to Sharon, Ariel, in an interview with Haaretz.
• Quotation from Gideon Ezra “There are Arab citizens in the State of Israel. This is our greatest sorrow” — Oct. 2004
  Minister of Internal Security.
• Quotation from Collectif “The Court is not convinced that the construction of the wall” — Jul. 9 2004
  Opinion of the International Court of Justice on the Wall.
• Quotation from Collectif “The construction of the wall by Israel … is contrary to international law” — Jul. 9 2004
  Opinion of the International Court of Justice on the Wall.
• Quotation from Moshe Feiglin “The Arab destroys everything he touches” — May 31 2004
  Settler in the West Bank and Likud deputy.
• Quotation from Efraim Eitam “We will have to kill them all” — May 24 2004
  General infamous for his hyper-violence. He was proposed in 2020 by Minister of Higher Education Ze'ev Elkin to head the Yad Vashem memorial.
• Quotation from Yitzhak Pundak “We had to destroy them, otherwise we would have had Arabs here” — May 21 2004
  Brigadier General, explaining 56 years after the events that it was nothing more than ethnic cleansing.
• Quotation from George W. Bush “Expect that any final status agreement will ...reflect these realities” — Apr. 14 2004
  In an official letter to Ariel Sharon, expresses the agreement of the United States to endorse the results of colonization.
• Quotation from Elyakim Haetzni “We are taking our soldiers and policemen to carry out a pogrom” — Mar. 18 2004
  Former member of the Knesset, from the colony of Kiryat Arba.
• Quotation from Yehiel Hazan “Arabs have been slaughtering and murdering Jews … It is something genetic” — Feb. 25 2004
  Member of the Knesset, Likud.
• Quotation from Ze’ev Boim “What is it about Islam ...and Palestinians ..? cultural deprivation? genetic defect?” — Feb. 24 2004
  Deputy Minister of Defense.
• Quotation from Azmi Bishara “Zionist colonialism inhabits the space between two extinct models” — Jan. 8 2004
  Palestinian from Israel, founder of the Balad party, exiled since 2007.
• Quotation from Ahmed Qurei “This is an apartheid solution to put the Palestinian in cantons” — Jan. 8 2004
  Then Prime Minister of the Palestinian Authority, conscious that Israel only wants one apartheid state.
• Quotation from Avraham Maman “I am not a racist and I have never been one, but” — 2004
  Councillor of Nazareth Illit, a so-called "city of development" created to encircle and suffocate the Palestinian city of Nazareth.
• Quotation from Moshe Yaalon “The soldier didn't know he was shooting at a Jew” — Dec. 30 2003
  IDF Chief of Staff, in response to Knesset members about a Jewish Israeli wounded by the army.
• Quotation from Yitzhak Ravid “Implement a stringent policy of family planning in relation to its Muslim population” — Dec. 2003
  President of the Rafael Arms Development Authority, in a speech given at the Herzliya conference.
• Quotation from Ehud Olmert “From a struggle against `occupation' …. to a struggle for one-man-one-vote” — Nov. 13 2003
  Member of the Sharon minister’s office, in an interview with Haaretz.
• Quotation from Meron Benvenisti “The basic story is that of natives and settlers” — Aug. 8 2003
  Deputy Mayor of Jerusalem from 1971 to 1978, who became a severe critic of the entire colonial process.
• Quotation from Meron Benvenisti “The right, certainly, but the left, too, hates Arabs” — Aug. 8 2003
  Former deputy mayor of Jerusalem, author of Sacred Landscape (2000).
• Quotation from Gideon Ezra “The state of Israel does not intend … to permit a creeping right of return” — Jul. 29 2003
  Minister without portfolio in the Sharon government, in a select committee, commenting on the law prohibiting the reunification of Palestinian families.
• Quotation from Avigdor Lieberman “The prisoners should be drowned” — Jul. 7 2003
  Israeli Minister of Transport, on Israeli radio, suggesting drowning the imprisoned Palestinians.
• Quotation from Ariel Sharon “Settlements can be built …. Let them build but without talking” — June 22 2003
  Statement to the Israeli Cabinet, June 22, 2003.
• Quotation from Yehoshua Mor-Yosef ““If we are evacuated, we'll return the night after” — June 10 2003
  Spokesperson for Yesha, the settlers' lobby group in the West Bank.
• Quotation from Frederik De Klerk “What apartheid wanted … is ... what everybody now says is the solution for Israel and Palestine” — May 16 2003
  Former President of South Africa, in an interview with Haaretz.