posted on Jan, 13 2004 @ 06:36 AM
"How can we return the occupied territories? There is nobody to return them to." (Golda Meir, March 8, 1969)
"There was no such thing as Palestinians, they never existed." (Golda Meir Israeli Prime Minister June 15, 1969)
"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, Ha'aretz, 19 March 1972)
"We have to kill all the Palestinians unless they are resigned to live here as slaves." (Chairman Heilbrun of the Committee for the Re-election of
General Shlomo Lahat, the mayor of Tel Aviv, October 1983)
"Every time we do something you tell me America will do this and will do that . . . I want to tell you something very clear: Don't worry about
American pressure on Israel. We, the Jewish people, control America, and the Americans know it." (Israeli Prime Minister, Ariel Sharon, October 3,
2001, to Shimon Peres, as reported on Kol Yisrael radio)
"We must do everything to ensure they [the Palestinian refugees] never do return" (David Ben-Gurion, in his diary, 18 July 1948, quoted in Michael
Bar Zohar's Ben-Gurion: the Armed Prophet, Prentice-Hall, 1967, p. 157)
"We should prepare to go over to the offensive. Our aim is to smash Lebanon, Trans-Jordan, and Syria. The weak point is Lebanon, for the Moslem
regime is artificial and easy for us to undermine. We shall establish a Christian state there, and then we will smash the Arab Legion, eliminate
Trans-Jordan; Syria will fall to us. We then bomb and move on and take Port Said, Alexandria and Sinai." (David Ben-Gurion, May 1948, to the General
Staff. From Ben-Gurion, A Biography, by Michael Ben-Zohar, Delacorte, New York 1978)
"We must use terror, assassination, intimidation, land confiscation, and the cutting of all social services to rid the Galilee of its Arab
population." (Israel Koenig, "The Koenig Memorandum")
"Jewish villages were built in the place of Arab villages. You do not even know the names of these Arab villages, and I do not blame you because
geography books no longer exist. Not only do the books not exist, the Arab villages are not there either. Nahlal arose in the place of Mahlul; Kibbutz
Gvat in the place of Jibta; Kibbutz Sarid in the place of Huneifis; and Kefar Yehushua in the place of Tal al-Shuman. There is not a single place
built in this country that did not have a former Arab population." (Moshe Dayan, address to the Technion, Haifa, reported in Haaretz, April 4,
1969)
"We walked outside, Ben-Gurion accompanying us. Allon repeated his question, What is to be done with the Palestinian population?' Ben-Gurion waved
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)
Rabin's description of the conquest of Lydda, after the completion of Plan Dalet. "We shall reduce the Arab population to a community of
woodcutters and waiters" (Uri Lubrani, PM Ben-Gurion's special adviser on Arab Affairs, 1960. From "The Arabs in Israel" by Sabri Jiryas)
"There are some who believe that the non-Jewish population, even in a high percentage, within our borders will be more effectively under our
surveillance; and there are some who believe the contrary, i.e., that it is easier to carry out surveillance over the activities of a neighbor than
over those of a tenant. [I] tend to support the latter view and have an additional argument:... the need to sustain the character of the state which
will henceforth be Jewish... with a non-Jewish minority limited to 15 percent. 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's Colonization Department. From Israel: an Apartheid State by Uri Davis,
p.5)
"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 don't grab will go to them." (Ariel Sharon, Israeli Foreign Minister, addressing a meeting of militants from the extreme right-wing
Tsomet Party, Agence France Presse, November 15, 1998)
"It is the duty of Israeli leaders to explain to public opinion, clearly and courageously, a certain number of facts that are forgotten with time.
The first of these is that there is no Zionism, colonialization or Jewish State without the eviction of the Arabs and the expropriation of their
lands." (Yoram Bar Porath, Yediot Aahronot, of 14 July 1972)
"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)