- When little Palestinian girls have become the favorite
targets of Israeli snipers, we should pause and try to remember how we
got here. Let's sit at the feet of Mr. Sharon and be instructed.
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- "I don't know something called International Principles.
I vow that I'll burn every Palestinian child (that) will be born in this
area. The Palestinian woman and child is more dangerous than the man, because
the Palestinian childs existence infers that generations will go on, but
the man causes limited danger. I vow that if I was just an Israeli civilian
and I met a Palestinian I would burn him and I would make him suffer before
killing him. With one hit I've killed 750 Palestinians (in Rafah in 1956).
I wanted to encourage my soldiers by raping Arabic girls as the Palestinian
women is a slave for Jews, and we do whatever we want to her and nobody
tells us what we shall do but we tell others what they shall do."
-
- -- Ariel Sharon, the Butcher of Shatila and Sabra a "man
of peace", current Israeli Prime Minister, In an interview with General
Ouze Merham, 1956.
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-
- Update
- Sharon Quote Said Invented
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- This quote, reported as fact, can only be found on anti-Isreal/pro-Palestinian
websites:
- http://www.google.com/search?q=General+Ouze+
Merham&hl=en&start=0&sa=N&filter=0
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- "I don't know something called International Principles.
I vow that I'll burn every Palestinian child (that) will be born in this
area. The Palestinian woman and child is more dangerous than the man, because
the Palestinian childs existence infers that generations will go on, but
the man causes limited danger. I vow that if I was just an Israeli civilian
and I met a Palestinian I would burn him and I would make him suffer before
killing him. With one hit I've killed 750 Palestinians (in Rafah in 1956).
I wanted to encourage my soldiers by raping Arabic girls as the Palestinian
women is a slave for Jews, and we do whatever we want to her and nobody
tells us what we shall do but we tell others what they shall do."
-
- - Ariel Sharon, current Prime Minister, In an interview
with General Ouze Merham, 1956
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-
- Date sent: Wed, 24 Apr 2002 15:11:58 +0200
- From: International Policy Institute for Counter-Terrorism
- infoATict.org.il
- Organization: International Policy Institute for Counter-Terrorism
- Subject: Re: Ariel Sharon In an interview with General
Ouze Merham, 1956
- Hello,
-
- The comment that you quoted is indeed an invention, and
a rather lame one. To begin with, any public expression of such sentiments
would be grounds for dismissing a soldier from the army. Hatred is considered
to render the soldier incapable of clear judgement and unreliable in carrying
out the will of the state. Indeed many young hotheads have been dismissed
from active combat duty because of their expression of racist sentiments--sentiments
that could have serious consequences in an army in which Jews serve alongside
Druze and Bedouin Arab soldiers.
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- One clue to the fact that the comment is a pure fabrication
is the use of the word "Palestinian." In 1956, the term had still
not taken hold in reference to Palestinian Arabs, but was at times used
to refer to Jews born in Mandatory Palestine prior to the establishment
of Israel. The Arabs in Palestine often referred to themselves as residents
of "Greater Syria," or of the new state of Jordan. Many were
also eligible for citizenship in the new state of Iraq, by virtue of their
parents having come from the region prior to the establishment of Iraq.
However, a large number had been caught in the process of migrating to
look for work at the very time when the modern states were being set up
by the great powers, and thus found themselves stateless on arrival in
Mandatory Palestine.
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- At any rate, the term "Palestinian Arab" was
made popular only in the early 1960's by what eventually became Yasser
Arafat's Fatah movement, the Palestine Liberation Movement, which was founded
in 1964. It did not catch on right away, and certainly had not gained enough
provenance to have been used by Ariel Sharon in 1956. There is simply no
way that an Israeli--and certainly not one expressing the sentiments ascribed
to Sharon in this comment--would at that time have used the term "Palestinian"
to refer to the Arabs. Even when the term began to be used by the PLO in
the 1960's, it was scoffed at, on the grounds that there had never been
any state in the region called Palestine (see Golda Meir's comment, "There
is no such thing as the 'Palestinian people'," referring to the PLO's
use of the term.).
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- I hope this will help to clarify things.
-
- Sincerely,
- Yael Shahar
- International Policy Institute for Counter-Terrorism
-
-
- http://www.geocities.com/myjoy18/arielsharon1956lie.htm
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-
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- Comment
- From Hugh Joseph
- 10-9-4
-
- Hi Jeff -
-
- If this statement attributed to Sharon is an invention,
then it is most unfortunate, and we must be grateful for having that pointed
out. So the question that must be raised concerns the number of innocent,
non-combattant, underage Palestinian children that are getting shot in
the head, and just deliberately killed in general. Is this the policy of
the IDF? If it is not, then what is being done to stop it?
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