“Jewish blood and a goy’s [gentile’s] blood are not the same.” — Israeli Rabbi Yitzhak Ginsburg, Jerusalem Post, June 19,1989

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“Every time we do something you tell me America will do this and will do that . . . I want to tell you something very clearly: Don’t worry about American pressure on Israel. We, the Jewish people, control America, and the Americans know it.” — Israeli Prime Minister, Ariel Sharon, October 3, 2001, to Shimon Peres, as reported on Kol Yisrael radio

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“The past leaders of our movement left us a clear message to keep Eretz Israel from the Sea to the Jordan River 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 Aviv memorial service for former Likud leaders, November 1990. Jerusalem Domestic Radio Service

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“All the Arabs within the borders of the land of Israel are enemies. They all have the same aspiration, and they all express it in a similar way: by violence.” — Rafael Eitan, Former IDF commander, New York Times, July 8, 1992

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“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, Israeli Foreign Minister, addressing a meeting of militants from the extreme right-wing Tsomet Party, Agence France Presse, November 15, 1998

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“The Palestinians 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 in the Jerusalem Post August 30, 2000

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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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“There is a huge gap between us (Jews) and our enemies. Not just in ability but in morality, culture, sanctity of life, and conscience. They are our neighbors here, but it seems as if at a distance of a few hundred meters away, there are people who do not belong to our continent, to our world, but actually belong to a different galaxy.” — Israeli President Moshe Katsav. The Jerusalem Post, May 10, 2001

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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 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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“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, Yediot Aahronot, of 14 July 1972

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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 for 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, Machover Israca, January 5, 1973 p.2

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“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.” — Ben Gurion, 1973

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“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, “The Koenig Memorandum” in 1980

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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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“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, Chief of Staff of the Israeli Defense Forces – Gad Becker, Yediot Ahronot 13 April 1983, New York Times 14 April, 1983

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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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“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, Commenting on the Israeli military’s Emergency Regulations following the 1967 War. Palestine, vol. 12, December 1983

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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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“The (Israeli) Army will follow a policy of might, power and beatings” — Yitzak Rabin. New York Times, 1/25/1988

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“The Palestinians would be crushed like grasshoppers … heads smashed against boulders and walls.” — Israeli Prime Minister, Yitzhak Shamir, in a speech to Jewish settlers New York Times April 1, 1988

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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.” — Benyamin 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