[Tamam]

Ik heb een lijstje samengesteld van wat opmerkelijke citaten van (ex) eerste ministers, leiders van het IDF en vooraanstaande politici uit Israel.

Ivm de eerste quote "eretz" wilt "groot" zeggen.

"The only solution is Eretz Israel, or at least Western eretz Israel without Arabs. There is no room for compromise on this point.. We must not leave a single village, not a single tribe." - Weitz

"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

"We have to kill all the Palestinians unless they are resigned to live here as slaves" - Yasser Heilbrun

"We must use terror, assassination, intimidation, land confiscation, and the ucttting of all social service to rid the Galilee of it's Arab population" - Israel Koening

"Israel should have exploited the repression of the demonstrations in China, when world attention focues on that country, to carry out mass expulsions among the Arabs of Israel"- Benyamin Netanyahu

"We carried on like real hooligans in Gaza, and that's what i demanded." -Tzipi Livn

"We came here to a country that was populated by Arabs and we are building here a Hebrew, a Jewish state; instead of the Arab villages, Jewish villages were established. You even do not know the names of those villages, and I do not blame you because these villages no longer exist. There is not a single Jewish settlement that was not established in the place of a former Arab Village." * - Moshe Dyan

"The Palestinians are like crocodiles, the more you give them meat, they want more" - Ehud Barak

"The Palestinians would be crushed like grasshopers.. head smashes against the boulders and walls" -Yithak Shamir

" (The Palestinians are) beasts walking on two legs." - Menahim Begin.

"When we have settled the land, all the Arabs will be able to do about it will be to scurry around like drugged cockroaches in a bottle." - Raphael Eitan

"How can we return the occupied territories? There is nobody to return them to." Golda Maier

"There was no such thing as Palestinians, they never existed." - Golda Maier

"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." - Matityahu Peled

* Ben Gurion also warned in 1948 : "We must do everything to insure they ( the Palestinians) never do return." Assuring his fellow Zionists that Palestinians will never come back to their homes. "The old will die and the young will forget."

"We declare openly that the Arabs have no right to settle on even one centimeter of Eretz Israel... Force is all they do or ever will understand. We shall use the ultimate force until the Palestinians come crawling to us on all fours." - Rafael Eitan

"We must do everything to ensure they (the Palestinian refugees) never do return" - David Ben-Gurion

"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

* "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

"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... There is not a single place built in this country that did not have a former Arab population." -Moshe Dayan

"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

-"We shall reduce the Arab population to a community of woodcutters and waiters" - Uri Lubrani

"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

"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

"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

"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,