So why doesnt Israel take the first step required for peace, and stop robbing Palestinians of their ever-dwindling land? Probably because the transfer of Palestinian land into Jewish hands is a core belief of Israels national ideology, Zionism. On this page, you will find hundreds of quotations which confirm that racist expansionism has been the force driving Zionism for more than a century. Early Zionist leaders like Theodr Herzl, Zeev Jabotinsky and David Ben-Gurion were very clear about their intention to ethnically cleanse Palestinians and acquire their land (a process that still continues in the West Bank today via the euphemistic settlement expansion that could lead to World War III). Immediately below are examples provided by Jewish historians, major newspapers, and other reputable sources. Please keep in mind that when the terms transfer, eviction and removal are used, the Zionists are talking about ethnic cleansing, a crime against peace and humanity. When the term expropriation is used, it means the theft of Palestinian land via superior firepower, which is armed robbery and fascism. When the right of return is denied to Palestinians, this dooms the victims of ethnic cleansing to remain stateless, rightless refugees forever. Honest Jews have admitted the horror of what Israeli Jews did—not only to Palestinian refugees—but to Palestinians who were not evicted: Do we sin only against the refugees? Do we not treat the Arabs who remain as second-class citizens? Did a single Jewish farmer raise his hand in the Parliament in opposition to a law that deprived Arab peasants of their land? ... How lonely, in the city of Jerusalem, sits the Jewish conscience.—Moshe Smilansky in his essay Zion and the Jewish National Idea published in the Menorah Journal, Volume XVI, 1958. We can find the genesis of the problem in an 1895 diary entry of Theodr Herzl, the founder of modern Zionism. Herzl was clearly writing a recipe for the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians, long before the Holocaust or any major acts of Arab violence against Jews in Palestine: [We Zionists will] spirit the penniless population across the border [of the Jewish state] by denying it employment ... Both the process of expropriation [theft of land] and the removal [ethnic cleansing] of the poor must be carried out discreetly and circumspectly.—Theodore Herzl, founder of the World Zionist Organization, speaking of the racist expulsion of Palestinian Arabs, in his diary on June 12, 1895 Obviously, there is no need to be discrete and circumspect when people are doing acceptable things. Here are other Zionist leaders who clearly advocated ethnic cleansing, without bothering to be discrete or circumspect. In fact, in one of its first acts as a nation in 1948, Israel created a Transfer Committee to supervise the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians! thehypertexts/Zionist%20Quotes.htm
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