Quotations

• Quotation from Yitzhak Shamir “The settlement of the Land of Israel is the essence of Zionism” — Feb. 21 1997
  Former Lehi terrorist then former Prime Minister.
• Quotation from Yitzhak Ginsburg “Can you take the liver of (a) non-Jew? The Torah would probably permit that” — Apr. 26 1996
  Originally from the USA, influential leader of one of the mystical currents of Judaism, the Derech Chaim movement.
• Quotation from Shimon Peres “Jerusalem will not be on the negotiating table with the Palestinian” — Feb. 13 1996
  Becoming Prime Minister after Yitzhak Rabin, explicitly locks Oslo agreements.
• Quotation from Ehud Barak “We still live in a modern and prosperous villa in the middle of the jungle” — Feb. 11 1996
  Then Foreign Minister Ehud Barak, addressing the American Zionists by recycling a colonial metaphor to justify Israel's violence.
• Quotation from Menachem Brinker “If the right of way back of refugees … then I’d prefer to give up any agreement” — 1996
  Academic and co-founder of "Peace Now", showing the limits of so-called "left-wing" Zionism.
• Quotation from Auteur inconnu “Nazism promoted Germany… to a fantastic status” — Dec. 1995
  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 Yitzhak Rabin “We would like this to be an entity which is less than a state” — Oct. 5 1995
  Speech to the Knesset, defines his Bantustan project.
• Quotation from Yitzhak Rabin “Next to it, a Palestinian entity, less than a state, that runs the life of Palestinians” — Sep. 30 1995
  In CNN's Evans and Novack program of September 30, 1995, expressing its opposition to a sovereign Palestinian State.
• Quotation from Yossi Beilin “The situation in the settlements has never been better” — Sep. 27 1995
  One of the planners of the Oslo Accords. At the time Minister of Economy and Planning in Yitzhak Rabin's government, he tried here - unsuccessfully a month before Rabin's assassination - to reassure religious Zionist settlers about Rabin's intentions regarding settlement.
• Quotation from Arieh Biro “There was no choice but to kill them. This is not such a big deal” — Aug. 21 1995
  Former Israeli Brigadier General, talking about the massacres of the 1956 Sinai War.
• Quotation from Yitzhak Rabin “We cannot keep having this mixture of Jews and Arabs” — Nov. 20 1994
  In the aftermath of a Hamas attack in Tel Aviv.
• Quotation from Yaacov Perrin “One million Arabs are not worth a Jewish fingernail” — Feb. 27 1994
  Rabbi, leading the funeral service of Baruch Goldstein who had massacred 29 Palestinians in the al-Ibrahimi mosque of al-Khalil/Hebron.
• Quotation from Baruch Goldstein “Doctor Baruch Kapal Goldstein, blessed be the memory of the righteous and holy man” — Feb. 27 1994
  Tombstone of Baruch Goldstein, who killed 29 people and wounded 125 in the al-Ibrahimi Mosque in Hebron / al-Khalil on February 25, 1994.
• Quotation from Amos Oz “It will … be easier … to break the backbone of a tiny, demilitarized Palestinian entity” — Oct. 3 1993
  Expressing its agreement for a "very small demilitarized entity" that will be easy to break if the Palestinians are not satisfied with it.
• Quotation from Yitzhak Rabin “Expel… 25, not to mention 400 people” — Feb. 8 1993
  44 years after ordering the mass expulsion of Palestinians from Lydda, Yitzhak Rabin boasted to a BBC reporter that he had illegally thrown 415 Palestinians, alleged members of the Hamas party, out of their country.
• Quotation from Amos Oz “Picked up their submachine guns, and dashed out to smash the hostile red Indians or Arabs” — 1993
  "Imagining" the other, if not being in solidarity with them, expressing an indifference equal to the 'old yishuv' and the 'pioneers'.
• Quotation from Yitzhak Rabin “I would like Gaza to sink into the sea” — Sep. 2 1992
  Then Prime Minister, to a delegation from the Washington Institute for Near East Policy in Jerusalem.
• Quotation from Yitzhak Shamir “In the meantime we would have reached half a million people” — June 27 1992
  Immediately after his defeat in the elections, in an interview with the newspaper Maariv , indicating the path actually followed after the Oslo Accords.
• Quotation from Yitzhak Shamir “It is permissible to lie for the sake of the Land of Israel” — 1992
  The former terrorist, now Prime Minister, has repeated many times what he was practicing.
• Quotation from Yitzhak Shamir “Settling the Jews up to where the horizon extends” — Sep. 25 1991
  Then Prime Minister of Israel, in the daily Haaretz, announces the intention of unlimited Jewish settlement.
• Quotation from Yitzhak Shamir “The whole Land of Israel belongs to us” — Sep. 17 1991
  Then Prime Minister of Israel, interviewed by the daily Hadashot. "Land of Israel", as undefined as "Biblical Lands", extends beyond the Palestine of the British Mandate.
• Quotation from Yitzhak Shamir “Personal terrorism is ... acceptable under some conditions” — Sep. 5 1991
  Prime Minister of Israel, Shamlr, interviewed by Army Radio on the 50th anniversary of the founding of Lehi, the underground [terrorist] group in which he fought the British administration in Palestine in the 1940s.
• Quotation from Yehudi Menuhin “Those who live by the sword shall die by the sword” — May 5 1991
  Famous violinist and conductor. Excerpt from his speech at the Knesset for the reception of the Wolf Prize.
• Quotation from Benyamin Begin “The settlements … constitute an obstacle … to the estabishment of an Arab state” — 1991
  Son of Menachem Begin, an important voice of Likud in 1991.
• Quotation from Yitzhak Shamir “To keep Eretz Israel … for the Jewish people, all of whom will be gathered” — Nov. 1990
  Statement by former Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir, at a memorial service for former Likud leaders in Tel Aviv, November 1990.
• Quotation from Teddy Kollek “They were and remain second - and third-class citizen” — Oct. 10 1990
  Mayor of Jerusalem (including East Jerusalem) from 1965 to 1993, interviewed by the daily newspaper Maariv after the assassinations of the esplanade of the mosques.
• Quotation from Yeshayahu Leibowitz “This state was created solely thanks to the Goyim world” — Oct. 1990
  Orthodox Israeli scientist, moralist and historian Leivowitz, in this dialogue with Israeli filmmaker Eyal Sivan, simply destroys the self-justifications Israel gives for its actions (excerpts).
• Quotation from Jacques Chirac “I don't believe a word that comes out of your mouth” — 1990
  On i24News, former israeli ambassador in Paris Avi Pazner reports the day when french President Jacques Chirac called Benjamin Netanyahu a liar, telling him to his face:.
• Quotation from UN / ONU “To gain control of the area allotted to the Jewish State and … blocs … outside those borders” — 1990
  Indicates that the Dalet Plan (1948) was already aimed at 'controlling' the Palestinian territories beyond the space allocated for a 'Jewish state' in 1947.
• Quotation from Desmond Tutu “What is happening in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank could describe” — Dec. 24 1989
  South African Archbishop, during a Christmas visit to Jerusalem.
• Quotation from Benyamin Netanyahu “Israel should have exploited the repression … in China ... to carry out mass expulsions” — Nov. 24 1989
  Then Minister of Foreign Affairs, at Bar Ilan University.
• Quotation from Auteur inconnu “They are brutal, wild, alien invaders” — Sep. 6 1989
  In a televised speech, Yitzhak Shamir, a terrorist who was elected Prime Minister, pushed denialism to its extreme limit.
• Quotation from Yitzhak Ginsburg “Jewish blood and the blood of a goy are not the same thing” — June 6 1989
  Extremist Israeli rabbi, concluding in court that killing is not a crime if the victims are non-Jews.
• Quotation from Ariel Sharon “I prefer to advocate a policy... that in a positive way will induce people to leave” — Aug. 24 1988
  Advocates 'humane' ethnic cleansing, rotting life to make people leave.
• Quotation from Yitzhak Shamir “They are like grasshoppers compared to us” — Mar. 31 1988
  Former Lehi terrorist, then Prime Minister, in a speech from Herodion to Jewish settlers.
• Quotation from Yeshayahu Leibowitz “We are already behaving … in the same way as the Nazis did” — Feb. 5 1988
  Israeli Orthodox scientist, moralist and historian, compares Israel's behavior in the occupied territories to that of the Nazis outside Germany.
• Quotation from Henry Kissinger “The first step should be to throw out television, a la South Africa” — Jan. 31 1988
  U.S. Secretary of State from 1973 to 1977 then influential consultant, talking about the 1st Palestinian Intifada, according to a memo whose content has not been denied by the person concerned; translating the extremism of organized American Zionism.
• Quotation from Yitzhak Rabin “Break their bones” — Jan. 1988
  Former General turned Minister of Defense, gives informal instructions to army commanders about young Palestinian stone-throwers.
• Quotation from Yitzhak Rabin “The Yom Kippur war was not fought … to threaten the existence of Israel” — 1988
  Rabin indicates the limited objectives of the Yom Kippur War of 1973.
• Quotation from Yehoshafat Harkabi “Any flaw in Israeli conduct … transformed into proof of the validity of anti-Semitism” — 1988
  Director of Israeli Intelligence from 1955 to 1959, in a book published in Hebrew in 1986 and in English in 1988, explains that Israel's behavior gives rise to antisemitism.
• Quotation from Yeshayahu Leibowitz “The state of Israel today is neither a democracy nor a state abiding by the rule of law” — 1988
  Israeli Orthodox scientist, moralist and historian, in an article entitled "Forty years later”.
• Quotation from Yitzhak Rabin “5,600 are currently in prison. Are these trivial numbers” — 1988
  During an election debate in 1988, showing the general's shell under the politician's tie.
• Quotation from Amos Oz “Victimhood entitles its owners to a moral exemption” — 1987
  In a collection of essays. He ironically mocks Menachem Begin and his justifications for the invasion of Lebanon in 1982.
• Quotation from Rehavam Zeevi “Zionism is in essence the Zionism of transfer” — 1987
  Israeli general and founder of the Moledet party, great advocate of the "transfer", killed by the Palestinian PFLP in 2001.
• Quotation from Joseph Biden “This is the best $3 billion investment we make” — June 5 1986
  Delaware Senator Joe Biden proclaims before the Senate that Israel serves US interests.
• Quotation from Mordechai Eliyahu “It is prohibited to sell houses to non-Jews in the Land of Israel” — Jan. 17 1986
  Sephardic Chief Rabbi of Israel, commenting on the attempt by a Palestinian to buy an apartment owned by the KKL/JNF (Jewish National Fund) in Jerusalem.
• Quotation from Benzion Netanyahu “Terrorism is the first general attack on a free society” — 1986
  Father of Benyamin Netanyahu, former personal secretary of the extreme right-wing leader Vladimir Jabotinsky, claiming that "terrorism" is only there to strengthen the USSR.
• Quotation from Avraham Yehoshua “You will remain a minority, as the Basques are in Spain” — Nov. 1985
  Israeli novelist, laying the Palestinians the equation accept your minority status or leave.
• Quotation from Nissan Rilov “It was an act of barbarism, it was difficult to describe it otherwise” — 1984
  Israeli artist expelled from the Zionist Haganah after testifying what he had seen in 1939.
• Quotation from Yitzhak Navon “To have as much land as possible and as few Arabs as possible” — 1984
  One of the leaders of the Mapaï party, who became "moderate" President of Israel (1978-1983) during the 1984 election campaign.