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" [The Palestinians are] beasts walking on two legs." Menahim Begin [1]

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Date: 2023-10

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1. "There is a huge gap between us (Jews) and our enemies ­not just inability but in morality, culture, sanctity of life, and conscience. They areour neighbors here, but it seems as if at a distance of a few hundred metersaway, there are people who do not belong to our continent, to our world, butactually belong to a different galaxy." Israeli president Moshe Katsav. TheJerusalem Post, May 10, 20012. "The Palestinians are like crocodiles, the more you give them meat, theywant more".... Ehud Barak, Prime Minister of Israel at the time - August 28,2000. Reported in the Jerusalem Post August 30, 20003. " [The Palestinians are] beasts walking on two legs." Menahim Begin,speech to the Knesset, quoted in Amnon Kapeliouk, "Begin and the Beasts".New Statesman, 25 June 1982.4. "The Palestinians" would be crushed like grasshoppers ... heads smashedagainst the boulders and walls." " Isreali Prime Minister (at the time) in aspeech to Jewish settlers New York Times April 1, 19885. "When we have settled the land, all the Arabs will be able to do about itwill be to scurry around like drugged cockroaches in a bottle." RaphaelEitan, Chief of Staff of the Israeli Defence Forces, New York Times, 14April 1983.6. "How can we return the occupied territories? There is nobody to returnthem to." Golda Maier, March 8, 1969.7. "There was no such thing as Palestinians, they never existed." GoldaMaier Israeli Prime Minister June 15, 19698. "The thesis that the danger of genocide was hanging over us in June 1967and that Israel was fighting for its physical existence is only bluff, whichwas born and developed after the war." Israeli General Matityahu Peled,Ha'aretz, 19 March 1972.9. David Ben Gurion (the first Israeli Prime Minister): "If I were an Arableader, I would never sign an agreement with Israel. It is normal; we havetaken their country. It is true God promised it to us, but how could thatinterest them? Our God is not theirs. There has been Anti - Semitism, theNazis, Hitler, Auschwitz, but was that their fault ? They see but one thing:we have come and we have stolen their country. Why would they accept that?"Quoted by Nahum Goldmann in Le Paraddoxe Juif (The Jewish Paradox), pp121.10. Ben Gurion also warned in 1948 : "We must do everything to insure they( the Palestinians) never do return." Assuring his fellow Zionists thatPalestinians will never come back to their homes. "The old will die and theyoung will forget."11. "We have to kill all the Palestinians unless they are resigned to livehere as slaves." Chairman Heilbrun of the Committee for the Re-election ofGeneral Shlomo Lahat, the mayor of Tel Aviv, October 1983.12. "Every time we do something you tell me America will do this and will dothat . . . I want to tell you something very clear: Don't worry aboutAmerican pressure on Israel. We, the Jewish people, control America, and theAmericans know it." - Israeli Prime Minister, Ariel Sharon, October 3, 2001,to Shimon Peres, as reported on Kol Yisrael radio.13. "We declare openly that the Arabs have no right to settle on even onecentimeter of Eretz Israel... Force is all they do or ever will understand.We shall use the ultimate force until the Palestinians come crawling to uson all fours." Rafael Eitan, Chief of Staff of the Israeli Defense Forces -Gad Becker, Yediot Ahronot 13 April 1983, New York Times 14 April 1983.14. "We must do everything to ensure they [the Palestinian refugees] neverdo return" David Ben-Gurion, in his diary, 18 July 1948, quoted in MichaelBar Zohar's Ben-Gurion: the Armed Prophet, Prentice-Hall, 1967, p. 157.15. "We should prepare to go over to the offensive. Our aim is to smashLebanon, Trans-Jordan, and Syria. The weak point is Lebanon, for the Moslemregime is artificial and easy for us to undermine. We shall establish aChristian state there, and then we will smash the Arab Legion, eliminateTrans-Jordan; Syria will fall to us. We then bomb and move on and take PortSaid, Alexandria and Sinai." David Ben-Gurion, May 1948, to the GeneralStaff. From Ben-Gurion, A Biography, by Michael Ben-Zohar, Delacorte, NewYork 1978.16. "We must use terror, assassination, intimidation, land confiscation, andthe cutting of all social services to rid the Galilee of its Arabpopulation." Israel Koenig, "The Koenig Memorandum"17. "Jewish villages were built in the place of Arab villages. You do noteven know the names of these Arab villages, and I do not blame you becausegeography books no longer exist. Not only do the books not exist, the Arabvillages are not there either. Nahlal arose in the place of Mahlul; KibbutzGvat in the place of Jibta; Kibbutz Sarid in the place of Huneifis; andKefar Yehushua in the place of Tal al-Shuman. There is not a single placebuilt in this country that did not have a former Arab population." MosheDayan, address to the Technion, Haifa, reported in Haaretz, April 4, 1969.18. "We walked outside, Ben-Gurion accompanying us. Allon repeated hisquestion, What is to be done with the Palestinian population?' Ben-Gurionwaved his hand in a gesture which said 'Drive them out!'" Yitzhak Rabin,leaked censored version of Rabin memoirs, published in the New York Times,23 October 1979.19. Rabin's description of the conquest of Lydda, after the completion ofPlan Dalet. "We shall reduce the Arab population to a community ofwoodcutters and waiters" Uri Lubrani, PM Ben-Gurion's special adviser onArab Affairs, 1960. From "The Arabs in Israel" by Sabri Jiryas.20. "There are some who believe that the non-Jewish population, even in ahigh percentage, within our borders will be more effectively under oursurveillance; and there are some who believe the contrary, i.e., that it iseasier to carry out surveillance over the activities of a neighbor than overthose of a tenant. [I] tend to support the latter view and have anadditional argument:...the need to sustain the character of the state whichwill henceforth be Jewish...with a non-Jewish minority limited to 15percent. I had already reached this fundamental position as early as 1940[and] it is entered in my diary." Joseph Weitz, head of the Jewish Agency'sColonization Department. From Israel: an Apartheid State by Uri Davis, p.5.21. "Everybody has to move, run and grab as many hilltops as they can toenlarge the settlements because everything we take now will stay ours...Everything we don't grab will go to them." Ariel Sharon, Israeli ForeignMinister, addressing a meeting of militants from the extreme right-wingTsomet Party, Agence France Presse, November 15, 1998.22. "It is the duty of Israeli leaders to explain to public opinion, clearlyand courageously, a certain number of facts that are forgotten with time.The first of these is that there is no Zionism,colonialization or JewishState without the eviction of the Arabs and the expropriation of theirlands." Yoram Bar Porath, Yediot Aahronot, of 14 July 1972.23. "Spirit the penniless population across the frontier by denying itemployment... Both the process of expropriation and the removal of the poormust be carried out discreetly and circumspectly." Theodore Herzl, founderof the World Zionist Organization, speaking of the Arabs ofPalestine,Complete Diaries, June 12, 1895 entry.24. "One million Arabs are not worth a Jewish fingernail." -- Rabbi YaacovPerrin, Feb. 27, 1994 [Source: N.Y. Times, Feb. 28, 1994, p. 1]25. "We Jews, we are the destroyers and will remain the destroyers. Nothingyou can do will meet our demands and needs. We will forever destroy becausewe want a world of our own." (You Gentiles, by Jewish Author MauriceSamuels, p. 155).26. "We will have a world government whether you like it or not. The onlyquestion is whether that government will be achieved by conquest orconsent." (Jewish Banker Paul Warburg, February 17, 1950, as he testifiedbefore the U.S. Senate).27. "We will establish ourselves in Palestine whether you like it ornot...You can hasten our arrival or you can equally retard it. It is howeverbetter for you to help us so as to avoid our constructive powers beingturned into a destructive power which will overthrow the world." (ChaimWeizmann, Published in "Judische Rundschau," No. 4, 1920)

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