Tuesday, May 04, 2004

Israeli PMs in their own words: "We must use terror, assassination, intimidation, land confiscation, and the cutting of all social services to rid the Galilee of its Arab population." - Ben Gurion

"There has been Anti-Semitism, the Nazis, Hitler, Auschwitz, but was that their fault? They see but one thing: we have come and we have stolen their country. Why would they accept that?" - Ben Gurion

"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." - Ben Gurion.

"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." "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. Etc, etc.....

A collection of devastating quotes which tell the story as clearly as any telling of the fundamental illegitimacy and immorality of the colonialist/Zionist enterprise. This unrepentant mentality is the root cause of the conflict and the reason why it can never be peacably resolved.

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