QUOTATIONS

"I should much rather see reasonable agreement with the Arabs on the basis of living together in peace than the creation of a Jewish State. Apart from practical considerations, my awareness of the essential nature of Judaism resists the idea of a Jewish State,with borders, an army, and a measure of temporal power, no matter how modest. I am afraid of the inner damage Judaism will sustain..." Albert Einstein (1879-1955).

"It would be my greatest sadness to see Zionists do to Palestinian Arabs much of what Nazis did to Jews." Albert Einstein (1879-1955).

"Every house demolishment, every expropriated dunum, every arrest and torture, every barricade, every closure, every gesture of arrogance and intended humiliation simply revives the past and reenacts Israel's offenses against the Palestinian spirit, land, body politic. To speak about peace in such a context is to try to reconcile the irreconcilable" Edward Said in "The Progressive", March 1998.

"The Zionist argument to justify Israel's present occupation of Arab Palestine has no intelligent or legal basis in history" Malcolm X (1925-1965) The Egyptian Gazette - Sept. 17, 1964.

"Zionism has always seemed to me a mischievous political creed...it seems to be inconceivable... that Mr. Balfour should be authorised to say that Palestine was to be reconstituted as the national home for the Jewish people...I assume that it means that Mohammedans and Christians are to make way for the Jews, and that the Jews should be put in all positions of preference" Sir Edwin Montagu (1879-1924), only Jewish member of the British Cabinet, in a secret memorandum August 1917.

“If we were an army and not many armies, and if we acted according to [one] strategic plan, we would have been able to “empty” the [Palestinian] population of the upper Galilee, Jerusalem and the road to it, Ramallah, Ludda, South of Palestine in general and the Negev in particular” David Ben Gurion  (IDF Archives, 121/50/172).

”Begin undeniably belongs to the Hitlerian type. He is a racist, ready to destroy all the Arabs in his dream of unification of Israel, prepared to resort to any means to realize this sacred goal (…) He can be accused of racism, but then one will have to put on trial the entire Zionist movement, which is founded on the principle of a purely Jewish entity in Palestine" David Ben Gurion in E.Haber. "Menahem Begin, the man and the legend." Delle Book. New York 1979, p. 385.

"If you wish to colonize a land in which people are already living, you must provide a garrison for the land, or find a benefactor who will maintain the garrison on your behalf. ... Zionism is a colonizing adventure and, therefore, it stands or falls on the question of armed forces" Ze'ev Jabotinsky (1880-1940).

"There is no choice: the Arabs must make room for the Jews of Eretz Israel. If it was possible to transfer the Baltic peoples, it is also possible to move the Palestinian Arabs" Ze'ev Jabotinsky (1880-1940).

"We abroad are used to believe the Eretz Yisrael is now almost totally desolate, a desert that is not sowed ..... But in truth that is not the case. Throughout the country it is difficult to find fields that are not sowed. Only sand dunes and stony mountains .... are not cultivated" Ahad Ha'am (1856-1927).

"There is no such thing as a Palestinian people... It is not as if we came and threw them out and took their country. They didn't exist". Golda Meir (1906-1978) The Sunday Times, 15 June, 1969.

"Any one who speaks in favor of bringing the Arab refugees back must also say how he expects to take the responsibility for it, if he is interested in the state of Israel. It is better that things are stated clearly and plainly: We shall not let this happen". Golda Meir, in a speech to the Knesset, reported in Ner, October 1961.

"This country exists as the fulfillment of a promise made by God Himself. It would be ridiculous to ask it to account for its legitimacy" Golda Meir, Le Monde, 15 October 1971.

"In strategic terms, the settlements (in Judea, Samaria, and Gaza) are of no importance." What makes them important, he added, was that "they constitute an obstacle, an unsurmountable obstacle to the establishment of an independent Arab State west of the river Jordan". Binyamin Begin, (son of the late Menahem Begin and a prominent voice in the Likud party writing in 1991, Quoted on page 159 of Findley's Deliberate Deceptions).

"It is an open secret that Israeli policy makers hoped for a massive emigration of Palestinians as a result of economic and demographic pressure. Therefore, they also developed a clever system which caused numerous Palestinians born here to lose their residency rights when they went to work or study abroad"  Amira Hass in 08/26/1998 Ha'aretz Op'Ed titled The Settlers are Not to Blame.

"There is no other way than to transfer the Arabs from here [Palestine] to the neighboring countries, to transfer all of them; not one village, not one tribe should be left"  Joseph Weitz, Davar, 29 September 1967 from "My Diary and Letters to the Children", Massada, 1965, III, p. 293.

"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.

"Israel should have exploited the repression of the demonstrations in China, when world attention focused on that country, to carry out mass expulsions among the Arabs of the territories"  Benjamin Netanyahu, then Israeli Deputy Foreign Minister, former Prime Minister of Israel, tells students at Bar Ilan University, From the Israeli journal Hotam, November 24, 1989.

"[Israel will] create in the course of the next 10 or 20 years conditions which would attract natural and voluntary migration of the refugees from the Gaza Strip and the west Bank to Jordan. To achieve this we have to come to agreement with King Hussein and not with Yasser Arafat" Yitzhak Rabin in the New York Times, 04/04/1983.

"If we thought that instead of 200 Palestinian fatalities, 2,000 dead would put an end to the fighting at a stroke, we would use much more force...." Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak, quoted in Associated Press, November 16, 2000.

"Everyone there should move, should run, should grab more hills, expand the territory. Everything that's grabbed, will be in our hands. Everthing we don't grab will be in their hands" Ariel Sharon, as Israeli Foreign Minister, in comments broadcast on the Israeli radio, Nov 15th, 98.

"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, colonization, or Jewish State without the eviction of the Arabs and the expropriation of their lands" Ariel Sharon, Israeli Foreign Minister, addressing a meeting of militants from the extreme right-wing Tsomet Party, Agence France Presse, November 15, 1998.

"Before 1967, the shadow of the Holocaust and the perception of Israel as a small state struggling for its existence in the face of Arab aggression combined to ensure, if not the favor of the European political classes, at least a certain dispensation from harsh criticism" Anatoly Chtaransky, Russian-born Israeli Likud politician.

"As a matter of fact, in reality we consider both sides [of the wall] as ours, we are the masters. For us there is no difference between the two sides" General Amos Yaron, architect of the Apartheid Wall, Interviewed on YourCallRadio.