Quotations

• 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 Ariel Sharon “The war of independence is not over yet — 1948 was only the first chapter” — Apr. 13 2001
  Interviewed by Ari Shavit.
• 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 Nelson Mandela “If the only alternative is violence, we will use violence.” — Oct. 10 1999
  Nelson Mandela, hero of the fight against apartheid in South Africa, during his visit to the Gaza Strip in 1999, a few months after the end of his mandate as Prime Minister.
• Quotation from Ehud Barak “If this bloc of millions of ­Palestinians cannot vote, that will be an apartheid state” — Feb. 3 1999
  At the Herzliya conference.
• 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".
• Quotation from Ariel Sharon “Everything that's grabbed will be in our hands” — Nov. 15 1998
  Ariel Sharon, then Minister of Foreign Affairs, at a meeting of the far-right Tsomet party.
• Quotation from Yitzhak Shamir “It is doubtful that we would have been able to create an independent Jewish State” — Oct. 27 1998
  In an interview, explains that without the terrorism of which he was a leader; Israel might never have come into existence.
• Quotation from Edward Said “Drop by drop tactic in which one or two houses are demolished daily” — Jul. 23 1998
  A great Palestinian intellectual, opposed to the Oslo Accords, explaining the "originality" of daily ethnic cleansing in the Zionist way.
• Quotation from Ariel Sharon “The Oslo agreement … for the Palestinians, is the only agreement they possess” — May 3 1998
  Speaking at the WINEP symposium in Washington.
• Quotation from Shimon Peres “Zionism is a path, not an outcome” — Apr. 29 1998
  Explaining in his own way that Zionism is a project that never comes to fruition.
• Quotation from Ehud Barak “If I were a Palestinian at the right age, I would have joined one of the terrorist organizations” — Mar. 7 1998
  Questioned by Gideon Levy, an editorialist from Haaretz, on what he would have done if he had been born Palestinian.
• Quotation from Haim Miller “I don’t sign orders to destroy the house of Jews, only of Arabs” — Feb. 7 1998
  Haredi vice-mayor of Jerusalem, acting as mayor in the absence of Ehut Olmert.
• Quotation from Nelson Mandela “Our freedom is incomplete without the freedom of the Palestinians” — Dec. 4 1997
  In his speech during the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People.
• Quotation from Amos Oz “A state cannot be Jewish, just as a chair or a bus cannot be Jewish” — Oct. 1997
  Israeli writer, writing in a phase of lucidity.