We will establish ourselves in Palestine whether you like it or not . . .You can hasten our arrival or you can equally retard it. It is however better for you to help us so as to avoid our constructive powers being turned into a destructive power which will overthrow the world. – Chaim Weizmann, in Judische Rundschau, No. 4, 1920. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Because we took the land this gives us the image of being bad, of being aggressive. The Jews always considered that the land belonged to them, but in fact it belonged to the Arabs. I would go further: I would say the original source of this conflict lies with Israel, with the Jews – and you can quote me. Yehoshofat Harkabi, former Israeli Chief of Military Intelligence, in ‘Peace Wont be a Plane Ticket to Cairo,’ International Armed Forces Journal, October 1973, p.30. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ It is unacceptable that nations made up of people who have only just come down from the trees should take themselves for world leaders . . . How can such primitive beings have an opinion of their own? – Yitzhak Shamir, in reference to the black African nations who voted in support of the 1975 U.N. resolution, which denounced Zionism as a form of racism, in Yediot Ahronot, November 14, 1975. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The thesis that the danger of genocide was hanging over us in June 1967 and that Israel was fighting for its physical existence is only bluff, which was born and developed after the war. – Israeli General Matityahu Peled, Haaretz, 19 March 1972. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ I dont understand your optimism. Why should the Arabs make peace? If I was an Arab leader I would never make terms with Israel. That is natural: we have taken their country. – David Ben Gurion, 1956, quoted by Nahum Goldmann in The Jewish Paradox, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1978, p.99. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ We must define our position and lay down basic principles for a settlement. Our demands should be moderate and balanced, and appear to be reasonable. But in fact they must involve such conditions as to ensure that the enemy rejects them. Then we should manoeuvre and allow him to define his own position, and reject a settlement on the basis of a compromise solution. We should then publish his demands as embodying unreasonable extremism. – General Yehoshafat Harkabi, Maariv, 2 November 1973. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Everybody has to move, run and grab as many hilltops as they can to enlarge the settlements because everything we take now will stay ours . . . Everything we dont grab will go to them. – Ariel Sharon, Israeli Foreign Minister, addressing a meeting of militants from the Tsomet Party, Agence France Presse, November 15, 1998. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Spirit the penniless population across the frontier by denying it employment . . . Both the process of expropriation and the removal of the poor must be carried out discreetly and circumspectly. – Theodore Herzl, founder of the World Zionist Organization, speaking of the Arabs of Palestine, Complete Diaries, June 12, 1895 entry. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Let us not today fling accusations at the murderers. Who are we that we should argue against their hatred? For eight years now they sit in their refugee camps in Gaza, and before their very eyes, we turn into our homestead the land and the villages in which they and their forefathers have lived. – Moshe Dyan, 1953, quoted by Uri Avneri in Israel without Zionists, p. 134. It IS what it IS. #PalestineWillBeFree #SupporttheBoycott #BDS
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