- (May 7, 2009)
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- "This past week, the Begin Center received this
request for information:
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- Can you please help me with this?
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- This quote
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- "Our race is the Master Race. We are divine gods
on this planet. We are as different from the inferior races as they are
from insects. In fact, compared to our race, other races are beasts and
animals, cattle at best. Other races are considered as human excrement.
Our destiny is to rule over the inferior races. Our earthly kingdom will
be ruled by our leader with a rod of iron. The masses will lick our feet
and serve us as our slaves."
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- is attributed to Begin and it is all over the web.
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- Do you know where it came from?
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- This was our reply:
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- Dear S_____,
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- I gave your request to our director of information and
content and after some thorough research, I have the following for you:
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- First of all, Mr. Begin never said those words and there
is no factual basis for that quote. When we searched for the quote, we
found that it looped back to the same text by Texe Marrs, who does not
say that he is quoting Begin.
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- Further research at this site showed that the
quote was attributed to "Amnon Kapeliouk's article "Begin and
the Beasts" (New Statesman, June 25, 1982) which was infamous for
having misrepresented some remarks Menachem Begin said in a speech to the
Knesset, and there are legitimate sources all over the net that make reference
to that incident.
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- However, the misrepresented quote is not the one cited
("Our race is the Master Race", etc.), but another one entirely
(see below). Clearly, someone invented the "Master Race" quote
and then tacked on Amnon Kapeliouk as the source, to give it credibility.
However, even the REAL (and far less offensive) quote has now been proven
to have been misrepresented by Kapeliouk.
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- The REAL story involving Kapeliouk's article is provided
by a media-watch group called CAMERA (Committee for Accuracy
in Middle East Reporting in America), which regularly debunks bogus news
reports and misquotes.
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- Here:
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- ...Internet hate sites, as well as Fisk, attribute the
derogation of Palestinians as "two-legged beasts" to former Israeli
Prime Minister Menachem Begin. The source generally given is:
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- Menachem Begin, as quoted in Amnon Kapeliouk, "Begin
and the Beasts, "New Statesman, June 25, 1982
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- Indeed, the radical French-Israeli journalist, Amnon
Kapeliouk, did attribute such a quote to Begin in his New Statesman article
criticizing Israel's invasion of Lebanon. The author posited:
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- For this reason the government has gone to extraordinary
lengths to dehumanize the Palestinians. Begin described them in a speech
in the Knesset as "beasts walking on two legs
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- However, further investigation by CAMERA reveals that
the actual speech upon which Kapeliouk based his quote, as well as news
reports at the time demonstrate that the journalist distorted the quote,
giving it a completely different tone and meaning. Begin was referring
not to "the Palestinians" in a general sense but very specifically,
he was referring to terrorists who target children within Israel...Kapeliouk
neither recanted nor apologized for his deception...
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- I hope that helps.
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- Moreover, we will be conferring with others in Israel
and abroad to attempt to verify that the no one has ever heard or seen
this quote and whether it is authentic. At present, we understand that
there is no reliable source and until proven otherwise, which we doubt
can be done based on our archival mateiral and personal familiarity with
Mr. Begin, we reject the veracity of the words supposedly either spoken
or conveyed. The quotation is bogus.
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- Posted by YMedad at 4:29 "
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- CAMERA: Exposing False Zionist Quotes II (Quote Busters
II)
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- Investigation--Example 2: Internet hate sites, as
well as Fisk, attribute this derogation of Palestnians as "two-legged
beasts" to former Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin. The source
generally given is:
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- Menachem Begin, as quoted in Amnon Kapeliouk, "Begin
and the Beasts,"New Statesman, June 25, 1982
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- Indeed, the radical French-Israeli journalist, Amnon
Kapeliouk, did attribute such a quote to Begin in his New Statesman article
criticizing Israel's invasion of Lebanon. The author posited:
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- For this reason the government has
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- Investigation--Example 2: Internet ..sites, as well
as Fisk, attribute this derogation of Palestnians as "two-legged beasts"
to former Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin. The source generally given
is:
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- Menachem Begin, as quoted in Amnon Kapeliouk, "Begin
and the Beasts,"New Statesman, June 25, 1982
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- Indeed, the.. French-Israeli journalist, Amnon Kapeliouk,
did attribute such a quote to Begin in his New Statesman article
criticizing Israel's invasion of Lebanon. The author posited:
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- For this reason the government has gone to extraordinary
lengths to dehumanise the Palestinians. Begin described them in a speech
in the Knesset as "beasts walking on two legs".
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- However, further investigation by CAMERA reveals that
the actual speech upon which Kapeliouk based his quote, as well as news
reports at the time demonstrate that the journalist distorted the quote,
giving it a completely different tone and meaning. Begin was talking,
not about "the Palestinians" but about terrorists who target
children within Israel.
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- On June 8, 1982, Begin addressed the Knesset in response
to a no-confidence motion over Israel's invasion of Lebanon. He talked
about defending the children of Israel, and according to a June 9, 1982
AP report, "his voice quaver[ed] with anger and sadness." According
to the minutes of the session, Begin stated:
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- The children of Israel will happily go to school and
joyfully return home, just like the children in Washington, in Moscow,
and in Peking, in Paris and in Rome, in Oslo, in Stockholm and in Copenhagen.
The fate of... Jewish children has been different from all the children
of the world throughout the generations. No more. We will defend our children. If
the hand of any two-footed animal is raised against them, that hand will
be cut off, and our children will grow up in joy in the homes of their
parents.
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- Kapeliouk neither recanted nor apologized for his misquote
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- http://begincenterdiary.blogspot.com/2009/05/correcting-misquotation-reputedly-by.html
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