The IHRA working definition of anti-Semitism states “claiming that the existence of a State of Israel is a racist read what leading Zionists have stated, and judge for yourself.
FROM ISRAELI PRIME MINISTERS
“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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“Zionism is a TRANSFER of the Jews. Regarding the TRANSFER of the [Palestinian] Arabs this is much easier than any other TRANSFER. There are [Palestinian] Arab states in the vicinity . . .”
David Ben Gurion. May 1944. (Page 159 ‘The Expulsion of the Palestinians)
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“We shall reduce the Palestinians to a community of woodcutters and waiters.”
Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, 1960, The Arabs in Israel
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“There was no such thing as Palestinians, they never existed.”
Golda Maier .June 15, 1969
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“(The Palestinians) would be crushed like grasshoppers … heads smashed against the boulders and walls.”
Yitzhak Shamir, in a speech to Jewish settlers New York Times April 1, 1988
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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, when he was Israeli Foreign Minister, addressing a meeting of militants from the extreme right-wing Tsomet Party, Agence France Presse, November 15, 1998.
FROM ISRAELI MILITARY
“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 Defence Forces – New York Times 14 April 1983.
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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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FROM OTHER LEADING ZIONISTS
“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 S Shlomo Lahat, the mayor of Tel Aviv, October 1983.
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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”
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For numerous further quotes showing Zionist racist intentions, visit:
https://www.palestineremembered.com/Acre/Famous-Zionist-Quotes/Story637.html
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