In article <1483500377@igc.apc.org> Center for Policy Research <cpr@igc.apc.org> writes: > >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)  They certainly never CALLED themselves "Palestinians"  >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)  Coming from a soldier that can't surprise you.  Eitan is now in charge of Tsomet, and there's a reason why he only gets a few votes every year:  They only elect him because he is squeaky clean, no  corruption.  >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)  I'm ignorant.  What's New Statesman? > >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)  Oh, those Crafty Jews again!  When will you learn, anti-Semite from  Iceland. > >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). > Let's face it, in 1967, what other view was there?  >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) > The penniless could mean anyone, big guy.  Grow up.  I hate your brackets.    >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). > They gave them advance warning.  Not like the PLO, eh?  >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)  Yeah, yeah.  More brackets.  Am I too picky?  > >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)  Bracket man. > >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) > That was the truth.  Were you there, Elias?  >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)  So the Holocaust never happened, eh Naziman Elias?  > >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  Lehi always warned in advance.  Not the PLO, buddy boy. > >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) > It was true!  Why should Jews be unemployed?  We say that in America, Jerky.  >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) > I firmly believe that today.  >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) > You don't understand metaphor, Naziman. And your quotes lead nowhere.  Not only do I doubt there actuality, but I guarantee they were compiled by some neo-Nazi group.  But I love your pseudo-intellectual approach.  It makes you sound even dumber than your conclusions.  Echad medinot leshtai amim.