Zionism Quotes - Page 2

• One of the dreams of Zionism was to be a bridge. Instead, we are creating exclusion between the East and the West instead of creating bridges; we are contributing to the conflict between East and West by our stupid desire to have more.

  A. B. Yehoshua

  Dream, Stupid, Bridges

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• 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

  Israel, Hands, Population

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• The old will die and the young will forget.

  David Ben-Gurion

  Forget, Young, Palestinian

  "The great catastrophe" by Karma Nabulsi, www.theguardian.com. May 11, 2006.

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• We shall try to spirit the penniless population across the border by procuring employment for it in the transit countries, while denying it any employment in our own country .... expropriation and the removal of the poor must be carried out discreetly and circumspectly.

  Theodor Herzl

  Country, Israel, Trying

  Theodor Herzl (1997). “The Jews' State: A Critical English Translation”, p.91, Jason Aronson, Incorporated

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• Any one who speaks in favor of bringing the Arab refugees back must also say how he expects to take the responsibility for it, if he is interested in the state of Israel. It is better that things are stated clearly and plainly: We shall not let this happen.

  Golda Meir

  Responsibility, Israel, Favors

  Golda Meir's speech to the Knesset as quoted in "New England Review", October 1961.

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• 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

  Simple, Israel, Land

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• We shall never stop until we can go back home and Israel is destroyed... The goal of our struggle is the end of Israel, and there can be no compromises or mediations... the goal of this violence is the elimination of Zionism from Palestine in all its political, economic and military aspects... We don't want peace, we want victory. Peace for us means Israel's destruction and nothing else.

  Yasser Arafat

  Military, Struggle, Home

  The Washington Post, March 29, 1970.

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• There is a huge gap between us (Jews) and our enemies, not just in ability but in morality, culture, sanctity of life, and conscience. They are our neighbours here, but it seems as if at a distance of a few hundred meters away, there are people who do not belong to our continent, to our world, but actually belong to a different galaxy.

  Moshe Katsav

  Distance, Our World, People

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• I should much rather see reasonable agreement with the Arabs on the basis of living together in peace than the creation of a Jewish state. My awareness of the essential nature of Judaism resists the idea of a Jewish state with borders, an army, and a measure of temporal power, no matter how modest. I am afraid of the inner damage Judaism will sustain—especially from the development of a narrow nationalism within our own ranks, against which we have already had to fight strongly, even without a Jewish state.

  Albert Einstein

  Army, Fighting, Agreement

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.212, Princeton University Press

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• Zionism is, in sum, the constant and unrelenting effort to realize the national and universal vision of the prophets of Israel.

  Yigal Allon

  Israel, Effort, Vision

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• Zionism is nothing more, but also nothing less, than the Jewish People's sense of origin and destination in the Land linked eternally with its name. It is also the instrument whereby the Jewish Nation seeks an authentic fulfillment of itself.

  Abba Eban

  Land, Names, People

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• 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.

  Ariel Sharon

  Israel, People, Trials

  "Clashes mar Mid-East inquiry", news.bbc.co.uk. March 25, 2001.

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• How can we return the occupied territories? There is nobody to return them to.

  Golda Meir

  Israel, Territory, Cleansing

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• This country exists as the fulfillment of a promise made by God Himself. It would be ridiculous to ask it to account for its legitimacy.

  Golda Meir

  Country, Israel, Promise

  Le Monde, October 15, 1971.

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• We must do everything to ensure they [the Palestinians] never do return. The old will die and the young will forget,

  David Ben-Gurion

  Scary, Return, Forget

  "The Great Catastrophe" by Karma Nabulsi, www.theguardian.com. May 12, 2006.

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• The acceptance of partition does not commit us to renounce Transjordan: one does not demand from anybody to give up his vision. We shall accept a state in the boundaries fixed today, but the boundaries of Zionist aspirations are the concern of the Jewish people and no external factor will be able to limit them.

  David Ben-Gurion

  Giving Up, Acceptance, People

  "New Outlook" Journal, April 1977.

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• Eretz Israel will be restored to the people of Israel. All of it. And forever.

  Menachem Begin

  Israel, People, Forever

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• The Partition of Palestine is illegal. It will never be recognized .... Jerusalem was and will for ever be our capital. Eretz Israel will be restored to the people of Israel. All of it. And for Ever.

  Menachem Begin

  Israel, People, Jerusalem

  "Iron Wall". Book by Avi Shlaim, p. 25, 2000.

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• If I knew that it was possible to save all the children of Germany by transporting them to England, and only half by transferring them to the Land of Israel, I would choose the latter, for before us lies not only the numbers of these children but the historical reckoning of the people of Israel.

  David Ben-Gurion

  Children, Lying, Israel

  "Israel Was Everthing" by Martin Gilbert, www.nytimes.com. June 21, 1987.

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• Palestine belongs to the Arabs in the same sense that England belongs to the English or France to the French. It is wrong and inhuman to impose the Jews on the Arabs... Surely 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

  Spiritual, Home, Humanity

  Mahatma Gandhi (1994). “The Gandhi Reader: A Sourcebook of His Life and Writings”, p.318, Grove Press

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• We do not wish and do not need to expel Arabs and take their places.

  David Ben-Gurion

  Israel, Scary, Cleansing

  Letter to his son Amos on October 5, 1937. "Fabricating Israeli History: The 'New Historians'" by Efraim Karsh, 1997.

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• The U.S. always needs an enemy. It comes and goes. Today it is Islam. According to this plan or ideology of the born-again Christians who formed an alliance with Zionism, Islam is the monster.

  Walid Jumblatt

  Christian, Enemy, Islam

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• I don't think that when Zionism began there was a claim that we were losing - even in part - our capacity to contribute to other peoples.

  A. B. Yehoshua

  Thinking, Losing, Claims

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• [Israel will] create in the course of the next 10 or 20 years conditions which would attract natural and voluntary migration of the refugees from the Gaza Strip and the west Bank to Jordan. To achieve this we have to come to agreement with King Hussein and not with Yasser Arafat.

  Yitzhak Rabin

  Kings, Israel, Agreement

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• There is not one single place built in this country that did not have a former Arab population.

  Moshe Dayan

  Country, Israel, Cleansing

  "The Racism Barrier" by M.Junaid Alam, www.counterpunch.org. October 3, 2003.

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