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January 5, 2009

I'm confused. Who's the terrorist here?

"Let us not ignore the truth among ourselves...politically we are the aggressors, and they defend themselves...The country is theirs, because they inhabit it, whereas we want to come here and settle down, and in their view we want to take away from them their country."
—David Ben-Gurion, 1938 (first Prime Minister of Israel)

"There is no such thing as a Palestinian people... It is not as if we came and threw them out and took their country. They didn't exist."
— Golda Meir, Prime Minister of Israel, statement to The Sunday Times, 15 June, 1969.

"We walked outside, Ben-Gurion accompanying us. Allon repeated his question, What is to be done with the Palestinian population?' Ben-Gurion waved his hand in a gesture which said 'Drive them out!"
— Yitzhak Rabin, Prime Minister of Israel, leaked censored version of Rabin memoirs, published in the New York Times, 23 October 1979.

"The settlement of the Land of Israel is the essence of Zionism. Without settlement, we will not fulfill Zionism. It's that simple."
— Yitzhak Shamir, Prime Minister of Israel, Maariv, 02/21/1997.

"Everybody has to move, run and grab as many (Palestinian) hilltops as they can to enlarge the (Jewish) 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 the Tsomet Party, Agence France Presse, Nov. 15, 1998.

"Israel may have the right to put others on trial, but certainly no one has the right to put the Jewish people and the State of Israel on trial."
— Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, 25 March, 2001 quoted in BBC News Online

"It would be a crime against humanity to reduce the proud Arabs so that Palestine can be restored to the Jews, partly or wholly as their national home."
— Mahatma Gandhi, 1938

Mon, 5 Jan 2009 04:01:32

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