Quotations
- 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 “It’s in their blood – murdering Jews…” — Feb. 25 2004
Member of the Knesset, Likud, coming to support his colleague Ze’ev Boim. - 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 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 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 Auteur inconnu “Jewish in the first place and then democratic” — Dec. 17 2003
In a speech to the Herliya Convention, Netanyahu reminds the conditions for a Zionist democracy : a small and obedient palestinian minority, limited to the 1949 borders. - 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 Avraham Burg “A state lacking justice cannot survive” — Aug. 29 2003
A politician of the "Zionist Left" (1985-1995), Chairman of the Jewish Agency and the World Zionist Organization (1995-1999) and then Speaker of the Knesset (1999-2003), in August 2003, Avraham Burg announced his break with Zionism in the text from which this quote is taken. - 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. - Quotation from Edward Said “Full view of nightly TV audiences, has performed such miracles of detailed sadism” — Oct. 1 2002
Palestinian-American intellectual, making an observation whose deep roots he has also analyzed. - Quotation from Avi Primor “A process ... establishing a ‘Palestinian state’ limited to the Palestinian cities” — Sep. 18 2002
Vice President of Tel Aviv University, explaining Sharon's strategy. - Quotation from Benyamin Netanyahu “There is no question … that Saddam is … advancing toward the development of nuclear weapons” — Sep. 12 2002
In front of the Committee on Government Reform of the House of Representatives in Washington, D.C., lying to push for the invasion of Iraq. - Quotation from Moshe
Yaalon “The characteristics of that threat are invisible, like cancer” — Sep. 3 2002
Israeli Chief of Staff, explaining that with regard to the colonized Palestinians, he prefers targeted destruction and assassinations to mass expulsion or genocide. - Quotation from Shulamit Aloni “To bring up the Holocaust... justify everything we do” — Aug. 24 2002
Member (Meretz) of the Knesset, one of the very few Israeli personalities to have denounced the occupation regime, interviewed by Democracy Now. - Quotation from Yitzhak Frankenthal “They have been ready to make peace with us; it is we who are unwilling” — Jul. 27 2002
Founder of the Bereaved Parents Forum, whose son was killed by Hamas in July 1994. - Quotation from Ariel Sharon “The spirit, and that is what will be decisive in the war in which we find ourselves” — June 23 2002
Appealing to Nationalist Mysticism in an Address to the Jewish Agency, Jerusalem. - Quotation from Martin Van Creveld “We have the capability to take the world down with us” — Apr. 27 2002
Military historian and professor at the University of Jerusalem, in an interview designed to "get the message out" about the Israeli nuclear threat, officially denied, should any state challenge ethnic cleansing. - Quotation from Efraim Eitam “Israeli Arabs are in large measure the ticking bomb” — Mar. 20 2002
Former Minister of Construction and National Infrastructure. - Quotation from Michael Ben-Yair “The intifada is the Palestinian people's war of national liberation” — Mar. 3 2002
Attorney General of Israel from 1993 to 1996. - Quotation from Amos Oz “You have two peoples with their backs against the wall” — Mar. 1 2002
Taking up the classic Zionist comparison between Palestinians and Nazis, for 1948 and the present. - Quotation from Unidentified / Non identifié “To analyse how the German army operated in the Warsaw ghetto” — Jan. 25 2002
As a "senior officer of the IDF", he is inspired by the Nazis to say how to treat the Palestinians. - Quotation from Ariel Sharon “It’s as if we were in Algeria” — Dec. 27 2001
Relating a phone call to French president Jacques Chirac, as related to journalist Alain Louyot in December 2001. - Quotation from Uzi Landau “That would be a fight to the death between us and the Palestinians” — Dec. 14 2001
Interior Minister in the Sharon government, member of the far-right Yisrael Beiteinu party. - Quotation from Binyamin Elon “Make their life so bitter that they will transfer themselves willingly” — Dec. 2001
Minister (Moledet Party) in the Sharon Government. - Quotation from Ovadia Yossef “In the old city of Jerusalem they are swarming like ants. They should go to hell” — Jul. 27 2001
Former Sephardic Chief Rabbi, on the occasion of the commemoration of the destruction of the first temple in the 7th century B.C.E. - Quotation from Moshe
Katsav “It seems as if … there are people who do not belong to our continent” — May 10 2001
President of Israel originating from Iran. - Quotation from Ovadia Yossef “You must send missiles to them and annihilate them” — Apr. 12 2001
Former Sephardic Chief Rabbi of Israel, during a sermon. - Quotation from Shimon Peres “It is a tragedy what the Armenians went through, but not a genocide” — Apr. 10 2001
In the vein of all the declarations on the incomparable uniqueness of the genocide of the European Jews, and to flatter Turco-Israeli relations. - Quotation from Ariel Sharon “No one has the right to put the Jewish people and the State of Israel on trial” — Mar. 25 2001
On Israeli radio, criticizing the coming of the Mitchell Commission, which he calls a "historical error". - Quotation from Moshe Shohat “Bedouins are a bloodthirsty people who commit polygamy” — 2001
Head of the "Educational Authority for Bedouins" created in 1981. - Quotation from Ehud Barak “If we thought that instead of 200 Palestinian fatalities, 2,000 dead would put an end” — Nov. 16 2000
Prime Minister (for another 2 months), on the radio. - Quotation from Mustafa Barghouti “To react with weapons. This would be a major mistake. But Arafat will go to the guerrillas” — Oct. 31 2000
Palestinian leader of al-Mubadara, in an interview with French journalist Sylvain Cypel. - Quotation from Elias Sanbar “The Palestinians, who have agreed to give up part of their land” — Oct. 12 2000
Palestinian participant in the negotiations around the Oslo Accords, expresses in this interview with Zeev Sternhell his hope - his illusions - that Zionists may comply with international law. - Quotation from Ehud Barak “The Palestinians are like crocodiles” — Aug. 28 2000
Then Prime Minister. - Quotation from Ovadia Yossef “God regrets having created these Ishmaelites [Arabs]” — Aug. 5 2000
Former Sephardic Chief Rabbi of Israel, religious leader of the Shas party. - Quotation from Ovadia Yossef “How can you make peace with a snake” — Aug. 2000
Ex-Sephardic Chief Rabbi of Israel (1973-1983), who became the spiritual leader” of the religious Shas party, in his Saturday evening sermon, about peace with the Palestinians. - Quotation from Ovadia Yossef “The six million Holocaust victims were reincarnations of the souls of sinners” — Aug. 2000
Ex-Sephardic Chief Rabbi of Israel (1973-1983), who became the “spiritual leader” of the religious Shas party, resuming the religious rationalization of the genocide of European Jews. Saturday sermon. - Quotation from Steve Israel “Those Zionist shlihim … want to succeed only to a certain extent.” — 2000
Educator of the Jewish Zionist Education Department. - Quotation from Collectif “Rejects the establishment of a Palestinian Arab state west of the Jordan river” — Jan. 1999
Platform of the Likud government, known as the "Likud Charter".