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There are some pretty choice quotes from shockingly honest Zionists.
1. "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, March 19, 1969, speech at the
Technion in Haifa, quoted in Ha'aretz, April 4, 1969.
The State of Israel was built after a movement called Zionism.The term
Zionism first came to public attention as a result of the works of Viennese
Jewish journalist Theodor Herzl, who argued in his 1896 book Der
Judenstaat (The Jewish State) that the best way of avoiding anti-Semitism in
Europe was to create an independent Jewish state or national homeland. (He
was originally thinking of Uganda or South America). The movement
eventually culminated in establishing the State of Israel in 1948 in Palestine.
Some 700,000 Palestinians became refugees and a similar number of Jews
arrived in the new state. Since then, the term "Zionism" properly refers to
supporters of the Israeli state.
The term racism refers to discriminatory beliefs and practices that presume
inherent and significant differences exist between different human races;
that assume these traits can be measured on a scale of "superior" to
"inferior"; and that can result in the social, political and economic
advantage of one group in relation to others.
* "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.
* " (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.
* "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.
* "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.
* 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, Chief of Staff of the Israeli Defense Forces - Gad
Becker, Yediot Ahronot 13 April 1983, New York Times 14 April 1983.
* "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, address
to the Technion, Haifa, reported in Haaretz, April 4, 1969.
* "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, head of the Jewish Agency's
Colonization Department. From Israel: an Apartheid State by Uri Davis,
p.5.
* "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.
* "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.
Arie Dayan: "The Debate over Zionism and Racism: An Israeli View";
Haaretz, 27 December 1991; translated in Journal of Palestine Studies, Vol.
22, No. 3. (Spring, 1993), pp. 96-105.
Michael Adams: "Israel's Treatment of the Arabs in the Occupied
Territories"; Journal of Palestine Studies, Vol. 6, No. 2. (Winter, 1977), pp.
19-40.
Janice J. Terry: "Zionist Attitudes toward Arabs; Journal of Palestine
Studies", Vol. 6, No. 1. (Autumn, 1976), pp. 67-78.
Roselle Tekiner: "Race and the Issue of National Identity in Israel";
International Journal of Middle East Studies, Vol. 23, No. 1. (Feb., 1991),
pp. 39-55.
Right of return
The Israeli law of the right of return which, despite Israel's otherwise
restrictive immigration policies, grant every Jew in the world the right to
settle in Israel. This is especially agitating for the Palestinian refugees, who
were expeled from their lands that is modern Israel, but are denied their
right to return.
Many opponents of Zionism declare that Zionism is racist, and compare its
continuation to the reform of Germany's former 'Blood Laws', which had
allowed ethnic Germans to claim citizenship, even if they were nationals of
another country.
Zionists hold that any person may choose to become a Jew, after meeting
the necessary requirements, and enjoy all the benefits and responsibilities of
membership. Since anyone can (i.e., regardless of race, ethnicity or
nationality) both join the Jewish people and equally enjoy the benefits of
membership, Zionists conclude that Zionism is anti-Racist among jews at
least. Even this claim was challenged all over the history of Israel. The jews
of Eastern origins (called Sephardim or Mizrahim) suffered from various
kinds of racism by Ashkenazic Jews.
The Jewishness of many jewish minorities in Israel (like the Ethiopian Jews,
the Russian Jews and Indian Jews) has been always questioned by the
religious authorities[1].
In many Israeli settlements they refuse to accept Falasha jews and The
Falasha rabbis privileges are not recognized in Israel[2] and the
unemployment rate among them is at least three times the Israeli average[3].
According to prof. Esther Herzog: The Falasha jews where brought to Israel
to work in the inferior jobs... and they are considered as third class citizens
(after the Ashkenazim and the Sephardim)[4].
"It is essential that the sufferings of Jews. . . become worse. . . this will
assist in realization of our plans. . .I have an excellent idea. . . I shall induce
anti-semites to liquidate Jewish wealth. . . The anti-semites will assist us
thereby in that they will strengthen the persecution and oppression of Jews.
The anti-semites shall be our best friends".[6][7]
UN resolutions
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