Citations

• Citation de Israel Shahak “The same type of act ... granting the Israeli governor ... the power of Hitler” — déc. 1983
  President of the Israeli Human Rights League, Bergen Belsen survivor, commenting on the emergency laws passed after the 1967 war.
• Citation de Rafael Eitan “All the Arabs will be able to do about it will be to scurry around like drugged roaches” — 12 avr. 1983
  Chief of Staff of the IDF (Israeli army), before the Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee. Not to be confused with the director of the Mossad of the same name.
• Citation de Yitzhak Rabin “Conditions which would attract natural and voluntary migration of the refugees” — 16 mar. 1983
  Explaining his method of ethnically cleansing the occupied territories without the world shouting.
• Citation de Rafael Eitan “The Phalange will organize tiny little houses for the Palestinians” — sep. 1982
  Israeli Chief of Staff, about the Sabra and Shatila massacre in Beirut in 2002.
• Citation de Menachem Begin “We must be honest with ourselves. We decided to attack him” — 21 août 1982
  Former terrorist, Prime Minister of Israel at the time of this statement on the Israeli Six Day War.
• Citation de Menachem Begin “Hitler and his henchmen hide in a bunker deep beneath the surface” — 5 août 1982
  In a letter to Ronald Reagan, Menachem Begin compares Beirut to Berlin and Arafat to Hitler, claiming a "right to massacre".
• Citation de Menachem Begin “Begin described the Palestinians as ‘beasts walking on two legs” — 25 juin 1982
  The former terrorist, in a speech to the Knesset.
• Citation de Benjamin Cohen “To insure peace for the residents of Galilee. These lies worthy of Goebbels make me mad” — 8 juin 1982
  Professor of History at Tel Aviv University, in a letter to the French historian Pierre Vidal-Naquet.
• Citation de Menachem Begin “Believe me that the alternative is Treblinka” — 5 juin 1982
  Ex-terrorist, Likud leader, Prime Minister, explaining to some of his ministers that Lebanon must be invaded.
• Citation de Alexander Haig “Israel is the largest U.S. aircraft carrier” — 1982
  Alexander Haig, former advisor to Richard Nixon, then Supreme Commander of NATO in Europe, and finally Secretary of State under Ronald Reagan (1981-2), gives the political reasons for the US's unconditional support for Israel.
• Citation de Yehoshafat Harkabi “Any opposition … is attributed either to ignorance ...or to base motive they are anti-Semitic” — 1982
  Former General Commander of Military Intelligence and Professor of Strategy at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
• Citation de Abba Eban “Israel wantonly inflicting every possible measure of death” — 16 août 1981
  Former Israeli ambassador to the UN and Minister of Foreign Affairs, Eban outbids Menachem Begin in qualifying Israel's genocidal acts.
• Citation de Menachem Begin “There were retaliatory actions against civilian populations” — 4 août 1981
  Then Prime Minister, in order to "justify" the atrocities committed in Beirut, explained that before him the Labour Party had also targeted the civilian population.
• Citation de Moshe Dayan “Knew in advance that the Syrians would start to shoot” — 1981
  Explains in 1976 to a young journalist, Rami Tal, the technique for provoking violent "reprisals" before 1967 following a response to graduated provocations.
• Citation de Israel Hess “We are all obligated to carry out genocide” — 26 fév. 1980
  Rabbi of Bar-Ilan University, in an article on the obligation to "exterminate Amalek". The article caused no protest but the rabbi had to resign later on.
• Citation de Ariel Sharon “I want the Arabs to see Jewish lights every night 500 meters from them” — 1980
  Passing by helicopter over the Netzarim settlement in the Gaza Strip.
• Citation de Rafael Eitan “All the Arabs are the same. They should all be finished off” — 1980
  Chief of Staff of the Israeli army, making genocidal remarks during a meeting of the high command in Gaza in 1980.
• Citation de Mordechai Gur “Retarded mentality deeply rooted in underdeveloped modes of thought, ” — 24 mai 1978
  In an interview with the daily Al Hamishmar, Mordechai Gur, former Chief of Staff (Jerusalem, Golan Heights, Lebanon), professes the inability of non-ashkenazi Jews to hold positions requiring high technical skills.
• Citation de Mordechai Gur “Q—Without ... distinctions between civilians and non-civilians? A—What distinction?” — 10 mai 1978
  General, Chief of Staff of the Army from 1974 to 1978, justifying state terrorism without hesitation.
• Citation de Nathan Yalin-Mor “Our plans for large-scale immigration offered Germany ...to rid Europe of the Jews” — 1978
  Former Lehi terrorist turned proponent of negotiations with the PLO, about Zionist contribution to the Nazi project on the Jews.
• Citation de Yeshayahu Gavish “The danger of Israel's extermination was hardly present before the Six-day war” — 1978
  General, Commander of Sector South, about the Six Day War.
• Citation de Menachem Begin “In your country there are many cities with biblical names” — 19 juil. 1977
  In his first meeting with US President Jimmy Carter at the White House, exploiting the relationship with Christian Zionism and biblical religious roots.
• Citation de Menachem Begin “The Jewish People … their lot and future are not dependent on a political meeting” — 17 juil. 1977
  During a meeting with Loubavitch Rabbi Schneerson in New York City before his meeting with Jeremy Carter.
• Citation de Abba Eban “Propaganda is the art of persuading others of what one does not believe oneself” — 17 juin 1977
  Representative of Israel to the United Nations.
• Citation de Menachem Begin “If he gets the chance, he'll surround the Knesset with his tanks” — 1977
  Speaking of his damned soul Ariel Sharon.
• Citation de Moshe Etzioni “The Arabs … do not take much time before they confess. It’s part of their nature” — 1977
  Judge of the Supreme Court of Israel, interviewed by Amnesty International on the rate of confessions (indicator of torture).
• Citation de Israel Koenig “Diluting existing Arab population concentrations” — 7 sep. 1976
  From the Ministry of the Interior, in a report for Yitzhak Rabin on Galilee in which he advocates the internal colonization of Galilee.
• Citation de Yitzhak Rabin “If we don’t want to get to apartheid” — 1976
  In an interview shown in the film "Rabin in his own words", where he compares colonies to cancer.
• Citation de Yasser Arafat “Our revolution ... Its target has never been the Jew, as a person” — 13 nov. 1974
  In 1974, before the UN General Assembly, Yasser Arabat outlined the basic principles of the Palestinian struggle for national liberation.
• Citation de Abba Eban “Hereditary difference between the ...level of a person whose father lived in the jungle” — 1974
  Abba Eban, Foreign Minister of Israel, before the Israeli press.
• Citation de Abba Eban “The Arabs never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity” — déc. 1973
  These remarks were made by Abba Eban in the aftermath of the Geneva talks that followed the Yom Kippur War.
• Citation de Yeshayahu Leibowitz “Declarations to that effect have been … coloured statements or deliberate lies” — 30 nov. 1973
  Historian and moralist, commenting on the situation after the Yom Kippur War, stating that Israel has never sought peace.
• Citation de Yehoshafat Harkabi “Our demands … must involve such conditions as to ensure that the enemy rejects them” — 2 nov. 1973
  Former head of military intelligence, explaining that for Israel, negotiating is tantamount to pushing to surrender.
• Citation de Golda Meir “We cannot forgive them for forcing us to kill their children” — sep. 1973
  In an interview, expresses the baseline of the most despicable Zionist racism.
• Citation de Abba Eban “The distinction between anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism is not a distinction at all” — 31 mar. 1973
  In an article for the Jewish liberal journal Congress Bi-Weekly , presents what will serve as artillery against any opponent of Israel.
• Citation de Ariel Sharon “We’ll make them a pastrami sandwich … nobody, will be able to tear it apart” — 1973
  In response, in 1973, to journalist Winston Churchill, grandson of the Prime Minister, asking him what to do with the Palestinians.
• Citation de Uri Dan “Those who will reject him as defense minister will get him as prime minister” — 1973
  Journalist, admirer of Ariel Sharon, at the time when the latter, seeing his military career blocked, founded the Likud.
• Citation de Abraham Avidan “The encountered civilians may, and by Halachic standards even must be killed” — 1973
  Rabbi of the central command of the army, nicknamed 'Zemzl', writing in a pamphlet (prefaced by General Yona Efrati of the central command) on the right to kill any non-Jewish and non-impotent person.
• Citation de Golda Meir “The frontier is where Jews live, not where there is a line on the map” — 27 sep. 1972
  Prime Minister, speaking to Jewish immigrants from the USSR in the Golan Heights.
• Citation de Abba Eban “Anti-Zionism is merely the new antisemitism.” — 1er août 1972
  Then Israel's Foreign Minister, Abba Eban spreads the “new anti-Semitism” thesis at the opening session of the American Jewish Congress' 10th annual American-Israeli Dialogue.
• Citation de Golda Meir “We now see that... can the number of Jews be diminished ...through love and freedom” — 17 juil. 1972
  Before the 75th Convention of the Zionist Organization of America.
• Citation de Yoram
  Ben Porath “There is no Zionism ...without the eviction of the Arabs and the expropriation of their lands” — 14 juil. 1972
  President of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, has the authority to recall what Zionism is all about.
• Citation de Mattityahu Peled “Those stories about the huge danger ... had never been considered” — 3 juin 1972
  General, from the IDF General Staff, about the 6-day war.
• Citation de Mordechaï Bentov “All this story about the danger of extermination has been a complete invention” — 14 avr. 1972
  Former Minister, about the 6 Day War.
• Citation de Chaim Herzog “There was no danger of annihilation. Israeli headquarters never believed in this danger” — 4 avr. 1972
  Former head of military intelligence, and future president of Israel, about the 6-day war.
• Citation de Ezer Weizman “There was never a danger of extermination” — 29 mar. 1972
  General, Chief of Operations, IDF General Staff, about the 6 Day War.
• Citation de Mordechai Hod “Sixteen years planning had gone into those initial eighty minutes” — 29 mar. 1972
  General, Commander of the Air Force, about the 6 Day War.
• Citation de Fatah “Irrespective of race, color or creed” — 1972
  In its 1972 platform, the main PLO organization, Fatah, called for a "unitary, democratic and non-sectarian" state for all of Palestine, without elaborating further.
• Citation de Menachem Begin “Preceding the Arab invasion … we continued to make sallies into Arab territory” — 1972
  Admitting that in 1948, Zionists, especially the Irgun terrorists under his leadership, were already attacking the territory planned for the "Arab State" before the proclamation of Israel.
• Citation de David Ben Gurion “Any Jewish woman … does not bring … at least 4 children is shirking her duty to the nation” — 1972
  In a book. Ben Gurion offered 100 lirot to every woman for the birth of her 10th child.