Die Israelisch-Amerikanische Lobby
25.07.2006 um 15:11
The quotes from a series of leading Zionist leaders are reproduced below and require nofurther comment.
David Ben Gurion
Prime Minister of Israel
1949 -1954,
1955 - 1963
We must expel Arabs and take their places."
--David Ben Gurion, 1937, Ben Gurion and the Palestine Arabs, Oxford University Press,1985.
"We must use terror, assassination, intimidation, land confiscation, andthe cutting of all social services to rid the Galilee of its Arab population."
--David Ben-Gurion, May 1948, to the General Staff. From Ben-Gurion, A Biography, byMichael Ben-Zohar, Delacorte, New York 1978.
"There has been Anti-Semitism, theNazis, Hitler, Auschwitz, but was that their fault? They see but one thing: we have comeand we have stolen their country. Why would they accept that?"
-- Quoted by NahumGoldmann in Le Paraddoxe Juif (The Jewish Paradox), pp. 121-122.
"Jewishvillages were built in the place of Arab villages. You do not even know the names ofthese Arab villages, and I do not blame you because geography books no longer exist. Notonly do the books not exist, the Arab villages are not there either. Nahlal arose in theplace of Mahlul; Kibbutz Gvat in the place of Jibta; Kibbutz Sarid in the place ofHuneifis; and Kefar 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."
-- David BenGurion, quoted in The Jewish Paradox, by Nahum Goldmann, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1978,p. 99.
"Let us not ignore the truth among ourselves ... politically we are theaggressors and they defend themselves... The country is theirs, because they inhabit it,whereas we want to come here and settle down, and in their view we want to take away fromthem their country."
-- David Ben Gurion, quoted on pp 91-2 of Chomsky's FatefulTriangle, which appears in Simha Flapan's "Zionism and the Palestinians pp 141-2 citing a1938 speech.
"If I knew that it was possible to save all the children of Germanyby transporting them to England, and only half by transferring them to the Land ofIsrael, I would choose the latter, for before us lies not only the numbers of thesechildren but the historical reckoning of the people of Israel."
-- David Ben-Gurion(Quoted on pp 855-56 in Shabtai Teveth's Ben-Gurion in a slightly different translation).
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Golda Meir
Prime Minister of Israel
1969 - 1974
"There is nosuch thing as a Palestinian people... It is not as if we came and threw them out and tooktheir country. They didn't exist."
-- Golda Meir, statement to The Sunday Times, 15June, 1969.
"How can we return the occupied territories? There is nobody toreturn them to."
-- Golda Meir, March 8, 1969.
"Any one who speaks in favorof bringing the Arab refugees back must also say how he expects to take theresponsibility for it, if he is interested in the state of Israel. It is better thatthings are stated clearly and plainly: We shall not let this happen."
-- Golda Meir,1961, in a speech to the Knesset, reported in Ner, October 1961
"This countryexists as the fulfillment of a promise made by God Himself. It would be ridiculous to askit to account for its legitimacy."
-- Golda Meir, Le Monde, 15 October 1971
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Yitzhak Rabin
Prime Minister of Israel
1974 - 1977,
1992 - 1995
"We walked outside, Ben-Gurion accompanying us. Allon repeated hisquestion, What is to be done with the Palestinian population?' Ben-Gurion waved his handin a gesture which said 'Drive them out!"
-- Yitzhak Rabin, leaked censored versionof Rabin memoirs, published in the New York Times, 23 October 1979.
"[Israelwill] create in the course of the next 10 or 20 years conditions which would attractnatural and voluntary migration of the refugees from the Gaza Strip and the west Bank toJordan. To achieve this we have to come to agreement with King Hussein and not withYasser Arafat."
-- Yitzhak Rabin (a "Prince of Peace" by Clinton's standards),explaining his method of ethnically cleansing the occupied land without stirring a worldoutcry. (Quoted in David Shipler in the New York Times, 04/04/1983 citing Meir Cohen'sremarks to the Knesset's foreign affairs and defense committee on March 16.)
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Menachem Begin
Prime Minister of Israel
1977 - 1983
"[ThePalestinians] are beasts walking on two legs."
-- Israeli Prime MinisterMenachem Begin, speech to the Knesset, quoted in Amnon Kapeliouk, "Begin and the'Beasts,"' New Statesman, June 25, 1982.
"The Partition of Palestine is illegal.It will never be recognized .... Jerusalem was and will for ever be our capital. EretzIsrael will be restored to the people of Israel. All of it. And for Ever."
--Menachem Begin, the day after the U.N. vote to partition Palestine.
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Yizhak Shamir
Prime Minister of Israel
1983 - 1984,
1986 - 1992
"The past leaders of our movement left us a clear message to keep Eretz Israelfrom the Sea to the River Jordan for future generations, for the mass aliya (=Jewishimmigration), and for the Jewish people, all of whom will be gathered into this country."
-- Former Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir declares at a Tel Aviv memorial service forformer Likud leaders, November 1990. Jerusalem Domestic Radio Service.
"Thesettlement of the Land of Israel is the essence of Zionism. Without settlement, we willnot fulfill Zionism. It's that simple."
-- Yitzhak Shamir, Maariv, 02/21/1997.
"(The Palestinians) would be crushed like grasshoppers ... heads smashed against theboulders and walls."
-- Isreali Prime Minister (at the time) Yitzhak Shamir in aspeech to Jewish settlers New York Times April 1, 1988
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Benjamin Netanyahu
Prime Minister of Israel
1996 - 1999
"Israelshould have exploited the repression of the demonstrations in China, when world attentionfocused on that country, to carry out mass expulsions among the Arabs of theterritories."
-- Benyamin Netanyahu, then Israeli Deputy Foreign Minister, formerPrime Minister of Israel, speaking to students at Bar Ilan University, from the Israelijournal Hotam, November 24, 1989.
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Ehud Barak
Prime Minister of Israel
1999 - 2001
"ThePalestinians are like crocodiles, the more you give them meat, they want more"....
-- Ehud Barak, Prime Minister of Israel at the time - August 28, 2000. Reported inthe Jerusalem Post August 30, 2000
"If we thought that instead of 200Palestinian fatalities, 2,000 dead would put an end to the fighting at a stroke, we woulduse much more force...."
-- Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak, quoted in AssociatedPress, November 16, 2000.
"I would have joined a terrorist organization."
-- Ehud Barak's response to Gideon Levy, a columnist for the Ha'aretz newspaper, whenBarak was asked what he would have done if he had been born a Palestinian.
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Ariel Sharon
Prime Minister of Israel
2001 - present
"It is theduty of Israeli leaders to explain to public opinion, clearly and courageously, a certainnumber of facts that are forgotten with time. The first of these is that there is noZionism, colonialization, or Jewish State without the eviction of the Arabs and theexpropriation of their lands."
-- Ariel Sharon, Israeli Foreign Minister,addressing a meeting of militants from the extreme right-wing Tsomet Party, Agence FrancePresse, November 15, 1998.
"Everybody has to move, run and grab as many(Palestinian) hilltops as they can to enlarge the (Jewish) settlements because everythingwe take now will stay ours...Everything we don't grab will go to them."
-- ArielSharon, Israeli Foreign Minister, addressing a meeting of the Tsomet Party, Agence FrancePresse, Nov. 15, 1998.
"Israel may have the right to put others on trial, butcertainly no one has the right to put the Jewish people and the State of Israel ontrial."
-- Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, 25 March, 2001 quoted in BBCNews Online
Source: KCom Journal
