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   Instructive Quotations   
   Behind the Israeli Propaganda   
   by Various Authors   
      
   DOSSIER   
      
   (Swans - January 17, 2005)   
      
     a.. Israel "will never withdraw from the occupied territories."   
     —Menachem Begin's speech on West Bank for Israel independence day, see,   
   New York Times Mid-May 1981.   
     b.. "For Europe we would constitute over there part of a bulwark against   
   Asia as well as the advance post of civilization against barbarism. As a   
   neutral state we would have relations with all of Europe, which would   
   guarantee our existence."   
     —Theodore Herzl, Judenstaat, French translation, publisher La Découverte,   
   Paris, 1989, p. 47.   
     c.. "Our right in Gaza is exactly like our right in Tel Aviv. We are   
   colonizing Gaza exactly in the same manner in which we colonized Yafa. Those   
   who doubt our right in Gaza should doubt our right in Tel Aviv as well."   
     —Israel Galili, quoted in Haaretz, April 18, 1972 as reprinted in Israel:   
   Utopia incorporated, Uri Davis, Zed Press, London, 1977, p. 15.   
     d.. "We came here to a country that was populated by Arabs and we are   
   building here a Hebrew, a Jewish state; instead of the Arab villages, Jewish   
   villages were established. You even do not know the names of those villages,   
   and I do not blame you because these villages no longer exist. There is not   
   a single Jewish settlement that was not established in the place of a former   
   Arab Village."   
     —Moshe Dyan, March 19, 1969, speech at the Technion in Haifa, "Israel"   
   quoted in Haaretz, April 4, 1969. (385 villages have been destroyed within   
   pre-1967 Israel...)   
     e.. Ben Gurion, referring to American Jews, called them "Human dust."   
     —cf. Israel: Utopia incorporated, Uri Davis, Zed Press, London, 1977, p.   
   19.   
   WHOSE LAND IS PALESTINE?   
      
     a.. "The population of Palestine was basically composed of Moslem and   
   Christian Palestinian Arabs. The Palestinians had lived in the country since   
   the dawn of history. They did not come to Palestine with the Moslem Arab   
   invasion of the seventh century as is sometimes erroneously thought. They   
   are the earliest and the original inhabitants of Palestine. The Palestinians   
   of today are the descendants of the Canaanites, the Philistines, and the   
   other early tribes which inhabited the country. Professor Maxime Rodinson   
   points out that the Arab population of Palestine was native in all senses of   
   that word. There were infusions of other racial elements into the   
   Palestinian stock, mainly from the Greeks, the Romans, the Moslem Arabs and   
   the Crusaders. But this Palestinian stock, which comprises both Moslems and   
   Christians, continued to constitute the main element of the population until   
   the majority of the original inhabitants of Palestine were displaced by the   
   Israelis in 1948."   
     —Henry Cattan, Palestine and International Law, p. 13, 1976.   
     b.. "If the views of the advanced Zionists prevail there is trouble ahead.   
   Many, very many, intelligent and informed Jews admit this. It is conceded   
   that the present inhabitants of Palestine have occupied their lands for   
   centuries; indeed, some of the Syrian communities claim descent from the   
   Hittites who were in possession at the dawn of history. Be that as it may,   
   all who know the situation from actual contact and not from propaganda   
   leaflets admit that these people have dwelt in their present homes for two   
   thousand years, that the occupancy of the Jews does not go back to   
   immemorial times, and that their sojourn before the Dispersion was brief.   
   Why should these 'old settlers' be expelled, they ask, to make room for   
   newcomers?"   
     —Stephen Bonsal, Suitors and Suppliants at Versailles, p. 45, 1919.   
     c.. "...the initial claim, often submitted by Zionist representatives,   
   that they have a 'right' to Palestine based on an occupation of two thousand   
   years ago, can hardly be seriously considered."   
     —Report of the King-Crane Commission, August, 1919.   
     d.. "Palestine is not the original home of the Jews. It was acquired by   
   them after a ruthless conquest, and they have never occupied the whole of   
   it, which they now openly demand. They have no more valid claim to Palestine   
   than the descendants of the ancient Romans have to this country. The Romans   
   occupied Britain as long as the Israelites occupied Palestine, and they left   
   behind them in this country far more valuable and useful work.   
      
     "If we are going to admit claims based on conquest thousands of years ago,   
   the whole world will have to be turned upside down..."   
     —Lord Sydenham, Hansard, House of Lords, 21 June, 1922.   
     e.. "If it is proper to 'reconstitute' a Jewish State which has not   
   existed for two thousand years, why not go back another thousand years and   
   reconstitute the Canaanite state? The Canaanites, unlike the Jews, are still   
   there."   
     —H.G. Wells, quoted by Frank C. Sakran in Palestine Dilemma, p. 204.   
     f.. "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. What is going on in Palestine today cannot be   
   justified by any moral code of conduct."   
     —Mahatma Gandhi, Tendulkar, Mahatma, Vol. IV, 1938, p. 312.   
     g.. "Golda Meir struck me as a very impressive and persuasive personality,   
   though she has shown little or no understanding for the Arabs of Palestine   
   or for the justice of their demands. She has always talked a great deal   
   about the 'historical and spiritual rights of the Jews', but it is difficult   
   to accept the validity of 'historic rights' which can only be achieved at   
   the expense of people who have been living in the same place for 2,000   
   years. The principle which she applies on behalf of the Jews, and by which   
   she justifies the expulsion of the Palestinians, would, if applied   
   elsewhere, reduce the world to a state of total chaos."   
     —General Odd Bull, former Chief of Staff of UNTSO, War and Peace in the   
   Middle East, p.42.   
     h.. "The Arabs of Palestine used to have the same rights over Palestinian   
   territory as the French exercise in France and the English in England. These   
   rights have been violated without any provocation on their part. There is no   
   evading this simple fact."   
     —Maxime Rodinson, Israel and the Arabs, 1968.   
     i.. "We Germans feel that the Palestinian people are entitled to   
   self-determination as much as any other people in the world, as much as we   
   Germans."   
     —Chancellor Helmut Schmidt speaking at a press conference in Cairo on 28   
   December 1977.   
   WHY DID THE PALESTINIAN REFUGEES GO?   
      
     a.. "I believe it was the intention of the Zionists, right from the   
   beginning, to dispossess the Palestinians from their homes, and I believe   
   the British Government was aware of this."   
     —Arnold Toynbee, in the introduction to an address by Sir John Richmond at   
      
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