Citations

• Citation de Bob Boothby “Resettlement of the Arab population … This should, have been carried out ... by the British” — 14 jan. 1964
  President of the Anglo-Israeli Association, referring to the development and consequences of the 1917 Balfour Declaration.
• Citation de David Ben Gurion “Hitler, more than he hurt the Jewish people … hurt the Jewish State” — 1964
  Explaining that the genocide of the Jews of Europe was less serious than the reduction in the number of European immigrants to Israel.
• Citation de Golda Meir “As a Socialist, I do not believe in God” — 24 juil. 1963
  Golda Meir, then Foreign Minister of the "Jewish State", confided to Hannah Arendt that she was an atheist. A.H. points out that this quote is not verbatim.
• Citation de Hannah Arendt “Palestine, of all places, was swamped with all kinds of goods ‘made in Germany’” — 1963
  Evoking, at the end of the Eichmann trial of 1961, the attitude of the Zionist leaders towards Nazism in the 1930s.
• Citation de Moshe Dayan “We should transform the Bedouins into an urban proletariat” — 1963
  Then Minister of Agriculture, imagining the fate of the Bedouins in Haaretz.
• Citation de Moses Hess “Our lost fatherland … on the road to India and China” — 1962
  Seen as the first Jewish political Zionist, Moses Hess clearly indicated the geostrategic interest of Jewish European colonization in the Palestinian area.
• Citation de Hendrik Verwoerd “Israel, like South Africa, is an apartheid state” — 23 nov. 1961
  Former Prime Minister of South Africa, in the daily Rand Daily Mail.
• Citation de Golda Meir “It is better that things are stated clearly and plainly: We shall not let this happen” — oct. 1961
  Speech to the Knesset.
• Citation de Adolf Eichmann “Had I been a Jew, I would have been a fanatical Zionist” — 10 sep. 1961
  As a bona fide Nazi, Adolf Eichmann admired Zionism as a means of voluntary emigration for European Jews, before taking part in the next step, the “Final Solution”.
• Citation de Erskine Barton Childers “Not a single order, or appeal, or suggestion about evacuation … from any Arab radio station” — 12 mai 1961
  BBC correspondent after 1960 for the Middle East, confirming for the first time the absence of Arab call to leave in 1948, based on radio archives.
• Citation de Uri Lubrani “Were there no Arab students, perhaps it would be better” — 4 avr. 1961
  Ben Gurion's Advisor for Arab Affairs from 1960 to 1963.
• Citation de Martin Buber “The power to heal our people of their murderous sickness of causeless hatred” — jan. 1961
  Famous philosopher who was a supporter of a binational state, in the magazine Ner of the binationalist group Ichud (Unity).
• Citation de Clement Attlee “U.S. policy... moulded by the Jewish vote and by party contributions” — 1961
  British Prime Minister (Labour) from 1945 to 1951, giving in 1961 his opinion on the origin of the American policy which required the admission of 100.000 Jewish refugees per year in Palestine.
• Citation de David Ben Gurion “In such a primitive community as the Marrocans - such a thing is possible” — 3 août 1959
  In a letter to Judge Moshe Etzioni.
• Citation de Yosef Nahmani “Where did they come by such a measure of cruelty, like Nazis? ” — 6 nov. 1958
  Director of the Jewish National Fund office in the eastern Galilee, relating zionist massacres in three villages, as recorded in his diary.
• Citation de Martin Buber “The majority of Jewish people preferred to learn from Hitler rather than from us” — 2 juin 1958
  In front of a Jewish audience in New York (while propagating the myth of the 'return to Palestine').
• Citation de Martin Buber “I have accepted … the state of Israel, the form of the Jewish community arisen from the war” — 1958
  Zionist "leftist" philosopher, indicating the limits of his criticism of real Zionism.
• Citation de Moshe Dayan “Serious help means killing Egyptians” — juin 1956
  Moshe Dayan, addressing Ben Gurion before the Suez expedition.
• Citation de Moshe Dayan “Let us take stock today with ourselves. We are a generation of settlement” — 29 avr. 1956
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• Citation de Moshe Dayan “To be willing and armed, strong and unyielding” — 29 avr. 1956
  Moshe Dayan, then Chief of Staff, speaks at the funeral of the soldier King Rotberg. Without denying the injustice perceived by the Palestinians, he updates Jabotinsky's speech on the "Iron Wall" to be maintained indefinitely to preserve Zionist domination.
• Citation de Ariel Sharon “I vow that I'll burn every Palestinian child” — 1956
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• Citation de Moshe Sharett “The state of Israel cannot be ruled … without deceit and adventurism” — 1956
  2nd "moderate" President of Israel, in his notebooks, shortly before his resignation in 1956.
• Citation de David Ben Gurion “If I were an Arab leader I would never make terms with Israel” — 1956
  Conversation with Nahum Goldmann.
• Citation de Yitzhak Rabin “Most of them … can be driven out. If the numbers were smaller it would be easier” — 1956
  In a meeting with Ben Gurion, shortly before his appointment to the Army Northern Command.
• Citation de Hannah Arendt “The idiocy is right in front of everyone's eyes” — 22 oct. 1955
  In a letter to her husband Heinrich Blücher, Hannah Arendt compares the treatment of Palestinians in Israel to the German mentality before the Second World War.
• Citation de Menachem Begin “The annihilation of Arab power; and secondly, the expansion of our territory” — 12 oct. 1955
  Terrorist one day ... then leader of the Herut party, declared before the Israeli parliament.
• Citation de Moshe Sharett “Let us hope for a new war with the Arab countries” — 26 mai 1955
  Minister for Foreign Affairs 1948-1956, and Prime Minister 1954-1956, paraphrasing on Moshe Dayan's words on the desire for a new war.
• Citation de David Ben Gurion “Our future does not depend on what the nations [goyim] say, but what the Jews do” — 27 avr. 1955
  During the Independence Day Rally at Ramat Gan Stadium.
• Citation de Moshe Sharett “Cause friction, cause bloody confrontations, sabotage targets” — 10 jan. 1955
  Then Prime Minister - for an additional month - Moshe Sharett confided in his personal notes - but not publicly - his conviction that the army services were responsible for the attacks in Egypt known as the "Lavon Affair ».
• Citation de Moshe Sharett “The long chain of false incidents and hostilities we have invented” — 22 déc. 1954
  Moderate" Prime Minister, in his newspaper, following the hijacking of a civilian plane by Israel.
• Citation de Moshe Dayan “The territory from the Litani southward will be totally annexed to Israel” — 16 mai 1954
  Israeli Chief of Staff, for whom butchering Lebanon is child's play.
• Citation de David Ben Gurion “As April began, our War of Independence swung decisively from defense to attack” — 20 avr. 1954
  In a text or statement dated December 12, 1948, confirms that in April, the Zionists went into a war of conquest.
• Citation de David Ben Gurion “It is worthwhile throwing away ... a million dollars” — 27 fév. 1954
  Reacting with insults and a lesson in Zionist chutzpah to Moshe Sharett, Prime Minister for the past month, by pushing for the creation of a Maronite state in Lebanon, allied with Israel.
• Citation de David Ben Gurion “It is clear that Lebanon is the weakest link in the Arab League” — 27 fév. 1954
  Letter from David Ben Gurion to Moshe Sharett, then Prime Minister of Israel, urging him to implement a plan to dismember and destabilize Lebanon. Intended to remain confidential, this letter was nevertheless published, despite the protest of the Israeli government, by David Ben Gurion's son, in 1979, as an appendix to his posthumous memoirs.
• Citation de David Ben Gurion “The danger is that… we will become a Levantine people” — jan. 1954
  Addressing the Mapai Party Central Committee in January 1954, Ben Gurion unabashedly established a hierarchy of Ashkenazi (educated Jews) > "Oriental" (uneducated) Jews > Arabs.
• Citation de David Ben Gurion “We were a company of conquistadores” — 1954
  Evoking the beginnings of Zionist colonization in 1917.
• Citation de David Ben Gurion “Hitler … caused damage to the Jewish state, whose coming he did not foresee” — 1954
  Weighing, in retrospect, in his own way, the harm caused to the Jews by the genocide of the Jews of Europe.
• Citation de Harry Truman “I am Cyrus, I am Cyrus” — nov. 1953
  At the Jewish Theological Seminary, former US President Harry S. Truman replied to Eddie Jacobson, who introduced him a « the man who helped create the State of Israel”, by comparing himself to the persian emperor who allowed Jerusalemite deportees to return to Judea.
• Citation de Moshe Sharett “ I can imagine the storm that will break out tomorrow” — 15 oct. 1953
  In the aftermath of the Qibya massacre - 69 dead - caused by Ariel Sharon's Unit 101, Moshe Sharett, then Minister of Foreign Affairs, reserved his helplessness and scruples for his diary.
• Citation de Maurice Samuel “We needed the maximum number of Jews, in shambles, everywhere and everywhere” — 1953
  Zionist writer known for a famous racist "anti-goy" statement "You Gentiles" (1925) speaks of the "opening of the floodgates" to populate Israel as soon as possible after the ethnic cleansing of 1948.
• Citation de Unidentified / Non identifié “Plague Jews with anti-Semitic slogans such as 'Bloody Jew', 'Jews go to Palestine'” — 1953
  In an article in the 1953 Davar daily newspaper.
• Citation de David Ben Gurion “Let me first tell you one thing: it doesn't matter what the world says about Israel” — 1953
  Addressing Ariel Sharon, who had just killed 69 Palestinian civilians in Kibya in 1953 by locking them up and blowing up their homes; as reported by Sharon.
• Citation de David Ben Gurion “If he (Albert Einstein) accepts, we are in trouble” — nov. 1952
  In 1952, Ben Gurion offers Einstein to become the 2nd president of Israel, while fearing that he might accept. Einstein told, later on, « If I were to be president, sometimes I would have to say to the Israeli people things they would not like to hear ».
• Citation de David Ben Gurion “We have no connection with the Arabs” — 1er oct. 1952
  During meetings in his office with senior Israeli officials.
• Citation de Moshe Dayan “It lies upon the Israeli army to carry out the fight with the object of erecting the Israeli Empire” — 12 fév. 1952
  Israel's Minister of Defense and Foreign Affairs on February 12, 1952 on Radio Israel.
• Citation de David Ben Gurion “It lacks the most basic and primary con­cepts of civilization” — 27 nov. 1950
  Referring to Yemeni Jews in a letter to the first Israeli Chief of Staff, Yigael Yadin.
• Citation de Yosef Weitz “Given the massive immigration from the Orient … There are indeed grounds for anxiety” — 19 sep. 1950
  Director of the KKL/JNF, expresses in his diary his racist fear of Oriental Jews.
• Citation de David Ben Gurion “The ingathering of the exiles brings us the rabble” — avr. 1950
  At a meeting of the army high command, explaining that the Jewish 'rabble' must be 'rebuilt'.
• Citation de David Ben Gurion “These Arabs should not reside here” — 1950
  At a Mapai party meeting in late 1950, Ben Gurion expressed his desire to take advantage of a war to remove the Palestinian minority from Israel.
• Citation de David Ben Gurion “We do not fit the general pattern of humanity” — 1950
  In a speech in 1950 exalting the exceptionalism of the "Jewish people”.