- Why is there anti-Semitism?
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- The reasons for anti-Semitism is found in its intellectuals
and their leaders.
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- "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.
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- David Ben-Gurion, one of the father founders of Israel,
described Zionist aims in 1948 thus: "A Christian state should be
established [in Lebanon], with its southern border on the Litani river.
We will make an alliance with it. When we smash the Arab Legion's strength
and bomb Amman, we will eliminate Transjordan too, and then Syria will
fall. If Egypt still dares to fight on, we shall bomb Port Said, Alexandria
and Cairo... And in this fashion, we will end the war and settle our forefathers'
account with Egypt, Assyria, and Aram"
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- "Zionist colonization must either be terminated
or carried out against the wishes of the native population. This colonization
can, therefore, be continued and make progress only under the protection
of a power independent of the native population - an iron wall, which will
be in a position to resist the pressure to the native population. This
is, in toto, our policy towards the Arabs..." Vladimir Jabotinsky,
The Iron Wall, 1923.
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- "[The Palestinians are] beasts walking on two legs."
Menahim Begin, speech to the Knesset, quoted in Amnon Kapeliouk, 'Begin
and the "Beasts"', New Statesman, 25 June 1982.
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- "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, Chief of Staff of the Israeli Defence
Forces, New York Times, 14 April 1983.
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- "How can we return the occupied territories? There
is nobody to return them to."Golda Maeir, March 8, 1969.
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- "We must expel Arabs and take their places."
David Ben Gurion, future Prime Minister of Israel, 1937, Ben Gurion and
the Palestine Arabs, Oxford University Press, 1985.
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- "A voluntary reconciliation with the Arabs is out
of the question either now or in the future. If you wish to colonize a
land in which people are already living, you must provide a garrison for
the land, or find some rich man or benefactor who will provide a garrison
on your behalf. Or else-or else, give up your colonization, for without
an armed force which will render physically impossible any attempt to destroy
or prevent this colonization, colonization is impossible, not difficult,
not dangerous, but IMPOSSIBLE!... Zionism is a colonization adventure and
therefore it stands or falls by the question of armed force. It is important...
to speak Hebrew, but, unfortunately, it is even more important to be able
to shoot - or else I am through with playing at colonizing." Vladimir
Jabotinsky, founder of Revisionist Zionism (precursor of Likud), The Iron
Wall, 1923.
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- "Between ourselves it must be clear that there is
no room for both peoples together in this country. We shall not achieve
our goal if the Arabs are in this small country. There is no other way
than to transfer the Arabs from here to neighboring countries - all of
them. Not one village, not one tribe should be left." Joseph Weitz,
head of the Jewish Agency's Colonization Department in 1940. From "A
Solution to the Refugee Problem" Joseph Weitz, Davar, September 29,
1967, cited in Uri Davis and Norton Mevinsky, eds., Documents from Israel,
1967-1973, p.21.
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- "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.
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- "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.
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- "...if people become accustomed to the large figure
and we are actually obliged to accept the return of the refugees, we may
find it difficult, when faced with hordes of claimants, to convince the
world that not all of these formerly lived in Israeli territory. It would,
in any event, seem desirable to minimize the numbers...than otherwise."
Israeli official Arthur Lourie in a letter to Walter Eytan, director general
of the Israeli Foreign Ministry (ISA FM 2564/22). From Benny Morris, "The
Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem 1947-49", p. 297.
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- "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.
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- One of the most enduring and deceptive slogans of Zionism
was coined by Israel Zangwill almost 100 years ago: Palestine was a "land
without people for a people without land."
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- After paying a visit to Palestine in 1891, the Hebrew
essayist AchadHa-Am commented:" Abroad we are accustomed to believe
that Israel is almost empty; nothing isgrown here and that whoever wishes
to buy land could come here and buy what his heart desires. In reality,
the situation is not like this. Throughout the country it is difficult
to find cultivable land which is not already cultivated."
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- The removal of Arabs bodily from Palestine is part of
the Zionist plan to "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 away discreetly and circumspectly." Theodore
Herzl, founder of the World Zionist Organization Complete Diaries, June
12, 1895 entry.
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- In 1899, Davis Triestsch wrote to Herzl: " I would
suggest to you to come round in time to the "Greater Palestine"
program before it is too late... the Basle program must contain the words
"Great Palestine" or "Palestine and its neighbouring lands"
otherwise it's nonsense. You do not get ten million Jews into a land of
25,000 Km2".
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- Vladimir Jabotinsky (the founder and advocate of the
Zionist terrorist organizations): "Has any People ever been seen
to give up their territory of their own free will? In the same way, the
Arabs of Palestine will not renounce their sovereignty without violence."
Quoted by Maxime Rodinson in Peuple Juif ou Problem Juif. (Jewish People
or Jewish Problem).
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- David Ben Gurion (the first Israeli Prime Minister):
" If I were an Arab leader, I would never sign an agreement with Israel.
It is normal; we have taken their country. It is true God promised it to
us, but how could that interest them? Our God is not theirs. There has
been Anti-Semitism, the Nazis, Hitler, Auschwitz, but was that their fault?
They see but one thing: we have come and we have stolen their country.
Why would they accept that?" Quoted by Nahum Goldmann in Le Paraddoxe
Juif (The Jewish Paradox), pp. 121-122.
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- 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."
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- Also Ben Gurion stated " The present map of Palestine
was drawn by the British mandate. The Jewish people have another map which
our youth and adults should strive to fulfill -- From the Nile to the Euphrates."
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- "Among the most disturbing political phenomena of
our time is the emergence in the newly created State of Israel of the Freedom
Party (Herut), a political party closely akin in its organization, method,
political philosophy and social appeal to the Nazi and Fascist parties."
[Begin, and Yitzhak Shamir who were members of the party became Prime Ministers.]
Albert Einstein, Hanna Arendt and other prominent Jewish Americans, writing
in The New York Times, protest the visit to America of Menachem Begin,
December 1948.
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- Martin Buber, Jewish Philosopher, addressed Prime Minister
Ben Gurion on the moral character of the state of Israel with reference
to the Arab refugees in March 1949: "We will have to face the reality
that Israel is neither innocent, nor redemptive. And that in its creation,
and expansion; we as Jews, have caused what we historically have suffered;
a refugee population in Diaspora."
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- " It lies upon the people's shoulders to prepare
for the war, but it lies upon the Israeli army to carry out the fight with
the ultimate object of erecting the Israeli Empire." Moshe Dayan
(Israel Defense and Foreign Minister), on February 12 1952. Radio "Israel."
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- Aba Eban (the Israeli Foreign Minister) stated arrogantly:
" If the General Assembly were to vote by 121 votes to 1 in favor
of "Israel" returning to the armistice lines-- (pre June 1967
borders) "Israel" would refuse to comply with the decision."
New York Times June 19, 1967.
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- "Jewish villages were built in the place of Arab
villages. You do not even know the names of these Arab villages, and I
don't blame you because geography books no longer exist, not only do the
books not exist, .The Arab villages are not there either. Nahal arose in
the place of Mahlul; Kibbutz Gvat in the place of Jibat; Kibbutz Sarid
in the place of Huneifis; and Kfar Yehushu'a in the place of Tal al Shuman.
There is not one single place that did not have a former Arab population."
Moshe Dayan's address to the Technion, Haifa (as Quoted in Ha'aretz, April
4, 1969).
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- "There was no such thing as Palestinians, they never
existed." Golda Maier Israeli Prime Minister June 15, 1969.
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- "The only solution is Eretz Israel [Greater Israel],
or at least Western Eretz Israel [all the land west of Jordan River], without
Arabs. There is no room compromise on this point ... We must not leave
a single village, not a single tribe." Joseph Weitz, Director of
the Jewish National Fund, the Zionist agency charged with acquiring Palestinian
land, Circa 194. Machover Israca, January5, 1973 p.2.
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- "Hitler's legal power was based upon the 'Enabling
Act', which was passed quite legally by the Reichstag and which allowed
the Fuehrer and his representatives, in plain language, to be what they
wanted, or in legal language, to issue regulations having the force of
law. Exactly the same type of act was passed by the Knesset [Israeli's
Parliament] immediately after the 1067 conquest granting the Israeli governor
and his representatives the power of Hitler, which they use in Hitlerian
manner." Dr. Israel Shahak, Chairperson of the Israeli League for
Human and Civil Rights, and a survivor of the Bergen Belsen concentration
camp, Commenting on the Israeli military's Emergency Regulations following
the 1967 War. Palestine, vol. 12, December 1983.
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- I see "many similarities in the oppression of Blacks
in South Africa and of Palestinians." Dennis Goldberg, a Jewish South
African sentenced to life imprisonment for "conspiring to overthrow
the apartheid regime," is released through the intercession of Israeli
officials, states on arrival in Israel, March 1985. He called for a total
economic boycott of South Africa, singling out Israelas a major ally of
the apartheid regime. Pledging never to stay in Israel, Goldberg moves
to London.
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- "It is forbidden to sell apartments in the Land
of Israel to Gentiles." Mordecai Eliayaho, the Israeli Chief Rabbi
commenting on an attempt by a Palestinian to buy an apartment owned by
the Jewish National Fund in East Jerusalem. Ha'aretz January 17, 1986.
The same situation was repeated many times, and that decision is legalized
now by the Israeli Supreme Court.
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- "Jewish blood and a goy's [gentile's] blood are
not the same." Israeli Rabbi Yitzhak Ginsburg, Inferring that killing
isn't murder if the victim is Gentile. Jerusalem Post, June 19,1989.
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- "I am a black South African, and if I were to change
the names, a description of what is happening in the Gaza Strip and the
West Bank could describe events in South Africa." Archbishop Desmond
Tuto, observes during Christmas visit to Jerusalem, December 25, 1989.
From Israeli daily Ha'aretz, cited in Palestine Perspectives, January/February
1990.
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- "The past leaders of our movement left us a clear
message to keep Eretz Israel from the Sea to the River Jordan for future
generations, for the mass aliya [immigration], and for the Jewish people,
all of whom will be gathered into this country." Former Prime Minister
Yitzhak Shamir declares at a Tel Avivmemorial service for former Likud
leaders, November 1990. Jerusalem Domestic Radio Service.
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- The Balfour Declaration to Baron Rothchild, on the 2nd
of November, 1917: "His Majesty's Government view with favor the establishment
in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people, and will use their
best endeavors to facilitate the achievement of this object, it being clearly
understood that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and
religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine, or the
rights and political status enjoyedby Jews in any other country."
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- "In Palestine we do not propose even to go through
the form of consulting the wishes of the present inhabitants of the country"
Lord Balfour in private memorandum to Lord Curzon, 11 August 1919.
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- "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.
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- "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.
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- "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." Jospeh Weitz,
Davar, 29 September 1967 from "My Diary and Letters to the Children",
Massada, 1965, III, p. 293.
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- "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, Chief of Staff of the Israeli Defence
Forces, New York Times, 14 April 1983.
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- "When we [followers of the prophetic Judaism] returned
to Palestine...the majority of Jewish people preferred to learn from Hitler
rather than from us." Martin Buber, to a New York audience, Jewish
Newsletter, June 2, 1958.
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- The Story of Yaakov Markus
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- Quoted from Maxim Ghilan How Israel Lost Its Soul, Penguin
Books (1974) p179:
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- 'Yaakov Markus was born in Berlin on 22 November 1927
to a non-Jewish mother named Mathilde Markus and to a Jewish father. He
came to Israel and in the fifties was drafted to serve in the 1956 Sinai
campaign. He was killed there and buried provisionally at the Shelah Military
Cemetery. Later this cemetery was abolished and the dead were transferred
to other permanent graves. Yaakov Markus's bones were to be interred -
as Jewish custom stipulates for Gentile dead - 'beyond the pale', that
is, behind a small stone fence cordoning off a piece of the Haifa cemetery.
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- 'In this plot were buried other non-Jewish fighters,
pilots and technicians who lost their lives helping Israel win her independence
in 1948 and preserving it in the years that followed. Markus's parents
did not accept the Rabbinate's ruling. They wanted their son to be granted
the same honor as the rest of his fallen friends - burial in the Military
Cemetery. General Goren, the Chief Rabbi of the Israeli Army - a visionary
racist who wanted the conquest of both banks of the Jordan, advocated a
religious state and tried to modernize religion for that purpose - was
not in the country. The bereaved parents appealed directly to the Prime
Minister, David Ben Gurion, who had to make a special ruling for them.
Markus was finally buried in the same row as his fallen friends. But so
that 'his bones should not be mingled with theirs', as Meshulam Schlesinger,
Director of the Military Cemetery, put it, his grave was set somewhat apart.
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- 'Meshulam Schlesinger officially stated that the corpse
of Yaakov Markus had been circumcised after his death, to allow it to lie
beside the Jewish fighters. This was later denied no less officially by
the Ministry of Defense. But the grisly and macabre atmosphere surrounding
the case has done much to deepen public concern.'
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