From: Center for Policy Research <cpr> Subject: Zionist leaders' frank statements  The following are quotations from Zionist leaders. They appear in numerous scholarly works dealing with the Palestine question. I urge those who have access to original sources, to verify the authenticity of the source and post here their finding, adhering to the truth whatever it be. Thanks. Elias Davidsson ------------------------------  Quotations from Zionist leaders  1. "There was no such thing as Palestinians" (Golda Meir, Prime Minister of Israel, London Sunday  Times, 15 June 1969)  2. "There is, however, a difficulty from which the Zionist  dares not avert his eyes, though he rarely likes to face it.  Palestine proper has already its inhabitants." (Israel Zangwill, The Voice of Jerusalem, London 1920,  p.88)  3. "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, Israeli Chief of Staff, New York Times, 14  April 1983)  4. "[The Palestinians are] beasts walking on two legs." (Menachem Begin, Prime Minister of Israel in a speech to  the Knesset, quoted in Amnon Kapeliouk, 'Begin and the "Beasts", New  Statesman, 25 June 1982)  5. "Both the process of expropriation [of the Palestinians]  and the removal of the poor must be carried out  discreetly and circumspectly". (Dr. Theodor Herzl, The Complete Diaries, Herzl Press,  1960, I., p.88)  6. "Between ourselves it must be clear that there is no  room for both people together in this country...The only  solution is a Palestine.....without Arabs. And there is no  other way than to transfer the Arabs from here to the  neighboring countries, to transfer all of them; not one  village, not one tribe, should be left." (Joseph Weitz, Jewish National Fund, administrator  responsible for Zionist colonization. Davar, 29 September  1967).  7."We shall try to spirit the penniless population [the  Palestinians] across the border by procuring employment  for it in the transit countries, while denying it any  employment in our own country" (Theodor Herzl, The Complete Diaries, Herzl Press, 1960,  I, p.88)  8. "[Zionists]...looked for means...to cause the tens of  thousands of sulky Arabs who remained in the Galilee to  flee...I gathered all the Jewish muktars, who have contact  with Arabs in different villages and asked them to  whisper in the ears of some Arabs that a great Jewish  reinforcement has arrived in Galilee and that it is going  to burn all of the villages of the Huleh. They should  suggest to these Arabs, as their friends, to escape while  there is still time....The tactic reached its goal....wide  areas were cleaned."  (Yig'al Alon, Sepher Ha Palmach, in Hebrew, II. p.268,  quoted in Khalidi, From Haven to Conquest, IPS, 1971).  10. "[Jews] must expel Arabs and take their place"  (David Ben Gurion, 1937, quoted in Shabtai Teveth, Ben  Gurion and the Palestine Arabs, Oxford University Press,  1985, p. 89)  11. "We must do everything to ensure they [the  Palestinian refugees] never do return" (David Ben Gurion, in his diary, 19 July 1948, quoted in  Michael Bar Zohar, Ben Gurion: The Armed Prophet,  Prentice-Hall, 1967, p.157)  12. "The country was mostly an empty desert, with only  a few islands of Arab settlement" (Shimon Peres, Minister of Defense, quoted in David's  Sling: The Arming of Israel, Weidenfeld and Nicholson,  1970, p.249)  13. "All this story about the danger of extermination [of  Jews] has been blown up....to justify the annexation of  new Arab territories" (Mordechai Bentov, Israeli Cabinet Minister, Al  Hamishmar, 14 April 1972)  14. "Neither Jewish ethics nor Jewish tradition can  disqualify terrorism as a means of combat" (Yitzhak Shamir, Hehazit, Summer 1943 [Journal of the  LEHI, the Stern Gang], translated from the Israeli daily  Al-Hamishmar, 24 December 1987  14. "The domination of Jewish agriculture by Arab  workers is a cancer in our body" (A. Uzan, Israeli Minister of Agriculture, Ha'aretz, 13  December 1974)  15. "There can be only one national home in Palestine,  and that a Jewish one, and no equality in the partnership  between Jews and Arabs" (Montague David Eder, President of the Zionist  Federation of Great Britain, 1931, in Doreen Ingrams, comp., Palestine Papers 1917-1922,  Seeds of Conflict, George Braziller, 1973, p. 135)  16. "I hope that the Jewish frontiers of Palestine will be  as great as Jewish energy for getting Palestine" (Dr. Chaim Weizmann, first President of the State of  Israel, Excerpts from His Historic Statements, Writings  and Addresses, Jewish Agency for Palestine, 1952, p.48)  17. "There is not a single Jewish village in this country  that has not been built on the site of an Arab village" (Moshe Dayan, Ha'aretz, 4 April 1969...)  18. "Some people talk of expelling 700,000 to 800,000  Arabs in the event of a new war, and instruments have  been prepared" (Aharon Yariv, former chief of Israeli military  intelligence, 1980, Inquiry, 8 December 1980)  19. "If I was an Arab leader I would never make [peace]  with Israel. That is natural: we have taken their  country." (David Ben Gurion, in Nahum Goldmann, The Jewish  Paradox, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1978, p.99)  20. "We should there [in Palestine] form a portion of the  rampart of Europe against Asia, an outpost of civilization  as opposed to barbarism." (Dr. Theodor Herzl, The Jewish State, London, 1896, p.  29)  21. "I deeply believe in launching preventive war  against the Arab States without further hesitation. By  doing so we will achieve two targets: firstly, the  annihilation of Arab power; and secondly, the expansion  of our territory" (Menachem Begin, in a speech to the Knesset, 12 October  1955)  22. "During the last 100 years our people have been in a  process of building up the country and the nation, of  expansion, of getting additional Jews and additional  settlements in order to expand the borders here. Let no  Jew say that the process has ended. Let no Jew say that  we are near the end of the road." (Moshe Dayan, Ma'ariv, 7 July 1968)  23. "Until the British left, no Jewish settlement, however  remote, was entered or seized by the Arabs, while the  Haganah, under severe and frequent attack, captured  many Arab positions and liberated Tiberias and Haifa,  Jaffa and Safad" (David Ben Gurion, Rebirth and Destiny of Israel,  Philosophical Library, 1954, p.530)  24. "In the months preceding the Arab invasion [of  1948], and while the five Arab states were conducting  preparations, we continued to make sallies into Arab  territory. The conquest of Jaffa stands out as an event of  first-rate importance in the struggle for Hebrew  independence early in May, on the eve of the invasion  by the five Arab states." (Menachem Begin, The Revolt,  Nash, 1972, p.348)  25. "What the French could do in Tunisia, I said, the Jews  would be able to do in Palestine with Jewish will, Jewish  money, Jewish power and Jewish enthusiasm" (Dr. Chaim Weizmann, First President of the State of  Israel, Trial and Error, Harper, 1949, p.244)  26. "I do not think Nasser wanted war. The two divisions  he sent to the Sinai on May 14 [1967] would not have  been sufficient to launch an offensive against Israel. He  knew it and we knew it." (Yitzhak Rabin, Le Monde, 29 February 1968)  27. "To pretend that the Egyptian forces massed on our  frontiers [in 1967] were in position to threaten the  existence of Israel constitutes an insult not only to the  intelligence of anyone capable of analyzing this sort of  situation, but above all an insult to the Zahal [Israeli  army]" (General Res. Matti Peled, Ha'aretz,  19 March 1972)  28. "when we have broken the strength of the Arab  Legion and bombarded Amman, we would wipe out  Transjordan; after that Syria would fall....we would thus  end the war, and would have put paid to Egypt, Assyria  and Chaldea on behalf of our ancestors" (David Ben Gurion in his diaries, quoted in Michael Bar- Zohar,  The Armed Prophet, A Biography of Ben-Gurion,  Prentice-Hall, 1967, p.139)  29. "These Jews of the Diaspora would like to see us, for  their own reasons, heroes with our backs to the wall. But  this wish can in no way change the realities." (Israeli General Ezer Weizmann, Le Monde, 3 June 1972)