Quotations

• Quotation from David Ben Gurion “Those who fled from the country, who told them to flee” — 1972
  In a pure senile denial of the existence of the Palestinians chased by him during the Nakba, in front of Israeli television.
• Quotation from Chaim Herzog “For the Jews of this land there cannot be any partner” — 1972
  Nine years before his election as President of Israel, summarizes Israeli diplomacy.
• Quotation from Golda Meir “This country exists as the fulfillment of a promise made by God Himself” — Oct. 15 1971
  Prime Minister at the time, Golda Meir, although an atheist, makes her religion when it comes to justifying Israel.
• Quotation from David Ben Gurion “To get it, we must return to the borders before 1967” — Mar. 25 1971
  In an interview by John McCook Roots for Saturday Review , in a realistic vision of the future of the "Jewish State".
• Quotation from Golda Meir “I was put on the Histadrut Executive … It was a great colonizing agency” — Jan. 24 1971
  Prime Minister, in an interview with The Observer about what the Jewish union Histadrut was in 1928.
• Quotation from David Ben Gurion “The exiles that are … ingathered in Israel do not yet constitute a people” — 1971
  No "Jewish people"? This is what Ben Gurion thinks about the "mixed multitude" that arrived in Palestine.
• Quotation from Bertrand Russell “Every expansion ...to discover how much more aggression the world will tolerate” — Jan. 31 1970
  In his last message, read at the International Conference of Parliamentarians in Cairo.
• Quotation from Bertrand Russell “No people anywhere in the world would accept being expelled en masse from their own country” — Jan. 31 1970
  Message to the International Conference of Parliamentarians in Cairo (Feb. 70), written just before his death (excerpt).
• Quotation from Abba Eban “Condemn us to start a preventive war” — 1970
  Giving an extensive justification to any war of aggression.
• Quotation from David HaCohen “Attack Jewish housewives in the markets and smash the Arab eggs they had bought” — Nov. 15 1969
  Leader of the Mapai ("socialist" party), in a speech to the Mapai secretariat, referring to his student years in London (1919-1922) (reconstructed text).
• Quotation from Abba Eban “The June (1967) map a memory of Auschwitz” — Nov. 5 1969
  Interview by the periodical Der Spiegel. Since 1969, Zionist publications have summarized this quote with the expression "Auschwitz Borders" to talk about what Israel would have been like before 1967, in order to justify the occupation. This absurd expression was repeated by Israeli ministers (Uri Landau, Zeev Elkin) after 2010.
• Quotation from Golda Meir “There were no such thing as Palestinians ...They did not exist” — June 15 1969
  Prime Minister of Israel, the Palestinians have never existed.
• Quotation from Moshe Dayan “Not one single place built … that did not have a former Arab population” — Apr. 4 1969
  Talking about the creation of settlements in the period 1921-1927 on land purchased in the valley of Marj Ibn Amir / Jezreel. Often quoted incomplete about the villages destroyed after 1948.
• Quotation from Moshe Dayan “All our settlements are built on the ruins of Palestinian villages” — Apr. 1969
  Talking to students of the Haifa Technion about the Palestinian villages destroyed in 1948.
• Quotation from Golda Meir “Return the occupied territories? There is nobody to return them to” — Mar. 8 1969
  New York Times interview.
• Quotation from Abba Eban “Our object should be to infuse them with an Occidental spirit” — 1969
  Then Minister of Foreign Affairs of Israel, expressing his racist views towards Mizrahi Jewish immigrants (and Arabs in general).
• Quotation from Golda Meir “For me the supreme morality is the the jewish people has a right to exist” — 1969
  In a Mapai meeting to support Israel's right to colonize the occupied territories.
• Quotation from Moshe Dayan “The settlements established in the territories are there forever,” — 1969
  Two years after the conquest of 1967, already announces the project of annexations.
• Quotation from Menachem Begin “If this is Palestine, then it belongs to a people who have lived here before” — 1969
  In response to a question about 'recognition of the existence of a Palestinian people' at Kibbutz Mapam of Ein Haroresh.
• Quotation from Menachem Begin “Is that the demographic problem? A people that lives for 7 years?"” — Dec. 6 1968
  Mocking Labour who would like a solution to the "demographic problem" without abandoning any important center of Palestinian population.
• Quotation from Moshe Dayan “To expand the borders here. Let no Jew say that the process has ended” — Jul. 7 1968
  Then Minister of Defense, announcing the Zionist program in the aftermath of the occupation of the West Bank and Gaza.
• Quotation from Moshe Dayan “After the present cease-fire lines, there will be new ones” — Jul. 5 1968
  Then Minister of Defense, in front of the young people of the kibbutzim gathered on the Golan Heights.
• Quotation from Yitzhak Rabin “I do not believe that Nasser wanted war” — Feb. 28 1968
  Then Chief of Staff of the army. Interview in the daily Le Monde.
• Quotation from Charles De Gaulle “And these are met with a resistance which it in turn calls terrorism” — Nov. 27 1967
  At a famous press conference.
• Quotation from Yigal Allon “A couple of … bombardments on Hebron and not a single 'Hebronite' would have remained” — Nov. 1967
  Former commander of the Palmach, Deputy Prime Minister in 1967, he called for a new ethnic cleansing on the scale of the Nakba.
• Quotation from Levi Eshkol “The layout in the Sinai … testified to a military defensive Egyptian set-up” — Oct. 18 1967
  Prime Minister, in a statement to Yediot Ahronot.
• Quotation from Yosef Weitz “This may destroy the very foundation of our state” — Sep. 29 1967
  Obsessive promoter of the expulsion of Palestinians since the 1930s, fearing that everything would have to be redone after the conquest of the West Bank and Gaza in 1967.
• Quotation from Auteur inconnu “This may destroy the very foundation of our state” — Sep. 29 1967
  Obsessive promoter of the expulsion of Palestinians since the 1930s, fearing that everything would have to be redone after the conquest of the West Bank and Gaza in 1967.
• Quotation from Auteur inconnu “We must leave the occupied territories immediately” — Sep. 22 1967
  First publication, in the daily Haaretz, of an Israeli anti-colonial statement after the Six Day War. On the initiative of members and supporters of Matzpen ("The Compass"): Shimon Tzabar, with Eli Aminov, Arie Bober, David Ehrenfeld, Raif Elias, Hayim Hanegbi, Uri Liphshitz, Moshe Machover, Dan Omer, Yehuda Rozenshtrauch , Shneor Sherman and Rafi Zikhroni.
• Quotation from Moshe Dayan “Let ... say that we don't have a solution and you will continue living like dogs” — Sep. 1967
  Israeli Defense Minister, at a meeting of the Rafi (extremist wing of the Labor coalition), in response to Shimon Peres, about refugees in the occupied territories.
• Quotation from Golda Eshkol Meir “My soul yearns for the dowry, and to let someone else take the bride” — Sep. 1967
  In a dialogue with Levy Eshkol a year and a half before she succeeded him as Prime Minister, exposes the problem of coming to seize the Palestinian territories, but without Palestinians.
• Quotation from Moshe Dayan “If one considers oneself as the people of the Bible, one should possess the Biblical lands” — Aug. 10 1967
  In a statement reported by the Jerusalem Post, caressing the Zionist dream of "keeping everything" after the Six Day War.
• Quotation from Moshe Dayan “We are not obliged to fix the limits of the State.” — Aug. 10 1967
  Paving the way for all annexations in the aftermath of the Six Day War.
• Quotation from Abba Eban “If the General Assembly were to vote by 121 votes to 1 ... Israel would refuse to comply” — June 19 1967
  Israeli Minister of Foreign Affairs, repeating Zionism's contempt for the application of international law.
• Quotation from Levi Eshkol “We’d send all the Arabs out to Brazil” — June 15 1967
  Then Prime Minister, during an inter-ministerial meeting.
• Quotation from Abba Eban “The world will side with a liberation movement” — June 15 1967
  Then Minister of Foreign Affairs, during an inter-ministerial meeting.
• Quotation from David Ben Gurion “Israel better rid itself of the territories and their Arab population” — June 10 1967
  In a radio statement on June 10, 1967, sees that Israel will impose apartheid in the occupied territories.
• Quotation from Lucien Rebatet “The cause of Israel is there that of all Westerners” — June 8 1967
  Anti-Semitic collaborator under the german occupation of France, author in 1942 of a violently anti-Semitic book, The Rubble , condemned to death after the french Liberation and then pardoned. Not having abandoned his anti-Semitism, but ...
• Quotation from David Ben Gurion “Well done, now give it back to them” — June 7 1967
  The day of the conquest of al-Khalil / Hebron in June 1967, according to the testimony of Louis Nir.
• Quotation from Moshe Dayan “Who needs a Jewish Vatican” — June 7 1967
  Responding to the Chief Rabbi of the army Shlomo Goren who had called to blow up the Dome of the Rock.
• Quotation from Haïm Bar-Lev “We were not threatened with genocide on the eve of the six-day war” — June 5 1967
  General, Chief of General Staff, IDF, talking about the 6 Day War.
• Quotation from Levi Eshkol “The costal area [Gaza] will never be returned to Egypt” — June 1967
  Then Prime Minister of Israel, speaks of Israel's intention to take permanent control of Gaza.
• Quotation from Abba Eban “On the fateful morning of June 5 … the choice was to live or perish” — June 1967
  In front of the UN General Assembly, tell a story that all the leaders know to be false.
• Quotation from John Bagot Glubb “Has the objective been to remove a nation from its country and to introduce another race” — 1967
  British Commander of the Arab Legion from 1941 to 1956 serving British and Jordanian interests.
• Quotation from Meir Amit “If we can get the first blow in our casualties will be comparatively light” — 1967
  General, leader of Mossad in 1967.
• Quotation from Yigal Allon “Achieve total victory, the territorial fulfillment of the Land Of Israel” — 1966
  Labor leader, leader of the Union of Labor tendency, former general during the Nakba, says aloud his regret that he did not drive out more Palestinians in 1948.
• Quotation from Konrad Adenauer “The power of the Jews… reconciliation between the Jewish people and the German people.” — Dec. 29 1965
  In an interview with ZDF television. "Jewish People", "Jewish Power in America", a collaboration with Israel based on barely concealed anti-Semitism.
• Quotation from David
  Ben Gurion “We are in duty bound to fight against the spirit of the Levant” — Oct. 5 1965
  Interviewed by Robert Moskin of Look Magazine, Ben Gurion expresses his absolute contempt for the Mizrahi Jews.
• Quotation from Yitzhak Tabenkin “Assimilation is part of the destruction of Jews. A Jew who is destroyed will not assimilate” — 1965
  Ideologist and leader of the secular kibbutz movement, expresses the idea that a dead Jew is better than an assimilated Jew.
• Quotation from Leo Heiman “Save your souls, all ye faithful: The Jews are using poison gas and atomic weapons” — June 1964
  A Zionist officer who fought in 1948, describing some of the methods used to drive out an unarmed population.