Call it a Genocide
This is a timeline documenting clear expression of intent to commit genocide, war crimes, and colonial oppression against Palestinians spanning from 1895 to the present day.
“In the present Convention, genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such: (a) Killing members of the group; (b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group; (c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part; (d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group; (e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group”
— 1951 United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide.
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2024
2024BEZALEL SMOTRICH
Israeli Politician (Leader of the National Religious Party - Religious Zionism, and Minister of Finance) - Nov 25, 2024"[Israel] can and must occupy the Gaza Strip [...] It’s possible to create a situation in which Gaza will have less than half its current population within two years."
Read the article >Itamar ben-gvir
Israeli Politician (Leader of Otzma Yehudi Party) - May 14, 2024"What you are doing here is the real solution...In order to end the problem, so that the problem does not return, we need two things that must be done: one - return to Gaza Now! Returning to our holy land. To encourage the residents to leave! This is the truth! This is the only way. And by the humanitarian side, I am ashamed that I am the only one in the cabinet who voted against the transfer of shipments to Gaza through Kerem Shalom. Yes, I understand that the world is pressing, yes I understand that the legal advisor is threatening, yes I understand that those who do not align themselves are attacked in the media. I am proud that I am being criticized in the media."
Watch the video >REVITAL GOTLIV
Israeli Politician (Member of the Knesset for the Likud party) - May 8, 2024"The US is threatening not to give us precision missiles. Well, I have news for the US: We have imprecise missiles! So maybe instead of using a precise missile to take out a specific room or a specific building, I’ll use my imprecise missiles to flatten 10 buildings. That’s what I’ll do. If you don’t give me precise missiles, I’ll use imprecise missiles."
Read the article >BRIAN MAST
Republican Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Florida - May 7, 2024"I think Israel should go in there and kick the shit out of them, just absolutely destroy them, their infrastructure, level anything that they touch. Clear enough?"
Watch the video >Bezalel Smotrich
Israeli Politician ((Leader of the National Religious Party - Religious Zionism, and Minister of Finance) - May 1, 2024"I will now conclude a short but very important tour with the leaders of the communities here on the Temple Mount. I want to say two messages. One to our neighbours here across the fence in Tulkarem, in Nura Shams, in Shueka, in Qalqilya - we will turn you into ruined towns as we are doing now in the Gaza Strip [...] if Halilah becomes a Palestinian state. [...] We'll clean up the terror and we'll continue to control the area in Judea and Samaria [Occupied West Bank]."
Watch the video >ALMOG COHEN
Israeli Politician (Member of the Knesset for Otzma Yehudit) - Mar 26, 2024"The Prime Minister must lead the army into Rafah. Yes, when they're fasting, when they're tired, and exhausted, to tear their bones apart. I can't even fathom the point we've come to. Our brothers and there, our sisters are there - hostages. And we're waiting because we're in the middle of Ramadan fasting? During Ramadan is the best time to kill them, because they are weak and tired."
Watch the video >DANIELLA WEISS
Israeli Settlement Activist - Mar 20, 2024"The Arabs of Gaza lost the right to be in Gaza on the 7th of October [...] No Arab - I'm speaking about more than 2 million Arabs - they will not stay here. We, Jews, will be in Gaza. [...] The Arabs want to annihilate the state of Israel. So you can call them monsters, you can call them cleansing of Jews. We are not doing [that] to them. They are doing [that] to us."
Watch the video >AVRAHAM ZERVIB
Israeli Military Officer - Feb 18, 2024"I see victory. I see all of their infrastructure being annihilated. I see that they don't have one house which is not destroyed. I see hundreds of thousands fleeing like the Nakba, walking towards exile."
Watch the video >RAMI IGRA
Former Mossad Official - Feb 14, 2024"There are no uninvolved civilians in Gaza. There is no such thing". In Gaza, everyone is involved. Everyone voted Hamas. Anyone over the age of 4 is a Hamas supporter."
Read the article >UNNAMED ISRAELI SETTLER
Israeli settlers in occupied Al-Khalil (Hebron) - Feb 1, 2024"Fuck international law. The Nakba of 1948 is nothing compared to the Nakba that's coming this year and next year."
See the video >HAIM KATZ
Israeli Politician (Minister of Tourism) - Jan 28, 2024"Today, after 18 years [from disengagement from Gaza], we have the opportunity to rebuild and expand the land of Israel. This is our final opportunity."
Read the article >Yitzhak Goldknopf
Israeli Politician ( Minister of Housing and Construction and leader of Agudat Yisrael) - Jan 28, 2024“I will support [the resettling of Gaza] as minister of housing if the government decides [...] The land of Israel belongs entirely to the people of Israel. Giving up the land of the State of Israel not only does not bring security, but leads to the bloodshed of Jews.”
Read the article >"Mickey" IDF Soldier
Israeli Major & Police officer - Jan 2, 2024"My name is Mickey. I'm a major in the IDF Reserves. I'm also a volunteer police force in the Israeli Police. And I got a message for the people of Gaza and the terrorists inhabiting Gaza: you bitches better start running. Anybody who's gonna be left in Gaza when we get there, all y'all gonna die. Each and every one of you. Your house is gonna be demolished. Your family ain't gonna have no place to live. You better start running [...] so I suggest you leave Gaza, and never, ever return. That's our territory now. You're done there. Leave or die."
Watch the video >MOSHE SAADA
Israeli Politician (Member of the Knesset for Likud) - Jan 2, 2024"In the kibbutzim they say, 'destroy them.' My friends at the prosecutor's office, who fought with me on political matters, in debates, tell me, 'Moshe, it is clear that all the Gazans need to be destroyed'."
Watch the video >2023
2023ELI COHEN
Israeli Politician - 27th December 2023 - Dec 27, 2023"Here, we are here on air, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, we have an email, we also have a phone, with all 21 countries in the Arab League, or all those that have, by the way, received Syrian and Ukrainian refugees, and received cases of other conflicts. If anyone wants to call, we have made a number for calls by our sources. You are welcome to call, to send a message. Leave only the country's address and we will respond."
Watch the video >UNNAMED IDF SOLDIER
26th December 2023 - Dec 26, 2023"What do we do, according to the Torah, with a damned Hamas member if he put down his weapon and ran away? Jacob, our father, blesses Judah in the parashah: 'Your hand on the scruff of your enemy'. When is the hand of Judah on the scruff of his enemy? When the enemy runs away. Yet, Judah still hits him to end the story for good. Goliath, the first enemy of King David, was completely neutralised, and still, King David beheaded him. 'I'll run after my enemies and destroy them and won't retreat until I finish them.' Reading this verse, Rabbi Eliyahu Zezukal would say to the soldiers that it is written "until their graves", and not "until they're imprisoned". Not to imprison, [but] until their graves. Jacob, our father, blesses Judah that will know and understand for generations that an enemy that's alive is a danger even when he runs away. His escape doesn't eliminate his hatred. If you do not erase him, he will return and hurt you. Pray that we will have the seventh Judgment Day, as the first, so that these will also be the commandments of the army. Shabbat Shalom."
Watch the video >ITAMAR BEN-GVIR
Israeli Politician - 17th December 2023 - Dec 17, 2023"As long as Hamas does not release the hostages in its hands - the only thing that needs to enter Gaza are hundreds of tons of explosives from the Air Force, not an ounce of humanitarian aid."
Read the tweet >SHIMON RIKLIN
Israeli Journalist - 13th December 2023 - Dec 13, 2023"I am for the war crimes. I don't care if I am criticised. I honestly don't care. I am unable to sleep if I do not see houses being destroyed in Gaza. What do I say? More houses. More buildings. I want to see more of them destroyed. I want there to be nothing for them to return to. In the Torah, it says they used to spread the earth with salt, and they must complain. This is why we cannot reach a solution with them, and that is what war crimes mean to me."
Watch the video >BENJAMIN NETANYAHU
13th December 2023 - Dec 13, 2023"We will continue to the end. There is absolutely no question about that. I say this in the face of great pain, but also in the face of international pressure. Nothing will stop us. We will go to the end, to victory, nothing less."
Watch the video >DANNY NEUMANN
Former Politician & former Footballer - 13th December 2023 - Dec 13, 2023"I tell you, in Gaza, without exception, they are all terrorists, sons of dogs. They must be exterminated, all of them must be killed. We will flatten Gaza, turn them to dust. And the army will cleanse the area. Then we start building new areas for us, above all, for our security.
Watch the video >UZI SHARBAF
Israeli Rabbi - 12th December 2023 - Dec 12, 2023"After all this, the Gaza Strip is the subject of this great period known as the approach of the Messiah. We are in the days where a great victory has been opened to us, to continue liberating the land of Israel: in the south of the country, in Gaza and its surroundings. Undoubtedly, we are in need of prayer, and exerting all of our efforts, to liberate the entire Sinai region up to the Nile River. This region is an integral part of the land of Israel, and is sanctified with the sanctity of Israel."
Watch the video >ARIEH KING
Deputy Mayor of Jerusalem - 8th December 2023 - Dec 8, 2023"@idfonline is exterminating the Nazi Muslims in Gaza. We must up the tempo. If it were up to me, I would bring 4 D9’s [bulldozers], place them behind the sandy hills and give an order to bury all those hundreds of Nazis alive. They are not human beings and not even human animals, they are subhuman and that is how they should be treated. Eradicate the memory of the Amalek, we will not forget.”
See the tweet >ISRAELI SOLDIERS
8th December 2023 - Dec 8, 2023(singing)"We're coming to occupy Gaza, and beat Hezbollah!I stick by one mitzvah:To wipe off the seed of Amalek.I left home behind meWon't come back until victoryWe know our slogan: there are no 'uninvolved civilians'".
Watch the video >Arieh King
Deputy Mayor of Jerusalem - 8th December 2023 - Dec 8, 2023“'When the Lord your God gives you rest from all the enemies around you in the land he is giving you to possess as an inheritance, you shall blot out the name of Amalek from under heaven. Do not forget!' Hundreds of sons of Amalek, Muslim-Nazis, what do you think their judgment should be?”
Read the article >Yinon Magal
Israeli Journalist & Media Host - 7th December 2023 - Dec 7, 2023"Why aren’t there women in the photo?"
See the tweet >Yinon Magal
Israeli Journalist & Media Host - 7th December 2023 - Dec 7, 2023"Victory 2023. Victory 1967. History repeats itself!"
Read the article >Yinon Magal
Israeli Journalist & Media Host - 6th December 2023 - Dec 6, 2023“I have come to conquer Gaza And hit Hizbollah on the headAnd only adhere to one mitzvah [deed]To eradicate the seed of AmalekI have left my house behindAnd will not return until victory [is achieved]Everyone knows our sloganThere are no uninvolved”
See the tweet >UNNAMED ISRAELI STUDENT
1st December 2023 - Dec 1, 2023Interviewer: "What is happening to innocent Palestinian civilians in Gaza right now?"Israeli: "They are not innocent!"
Watch the video >Benny Gantz
Israeli Politician - 30th November 2023 - Nov 30, 2023"The fighting will continue and expand to any place necessary in the Gaza strip. There will be no sanctuary cities."
See the video >UNNAMED ISRAELI STUDENT
27th November 2023 - Nov 27, 2023Student: "I want all the Arab people to die. It will happen. Right now in Gaza. Because Gaza right now is in hell."Interviewer: "You really believe that?"Student: "Yeah. All the people in Gaza dead. [...] And it's really, really fun. I'm proud for my people."
Watch the video >UNNAMED ISRAELI
17th November 2023 - Nov 17, 2023Interviewer: "What do you think about Israel bombing Gaza and killing all the civilians?"Israeli: "I don't think nothing. I think they should have it."Interviewer: [...] "You said you think they should be bombed?"Israeli: "Yeah!"Interviewer: "The innocent lives?! The kids being bombed in Gaza - is that ok?"Israeli: "Yeah."Interviewer: "Maybe you didn't hear me. I'll ask you again-"Israeli: "The kids? Yeah."
Watch the video >NISSIM VATURI
Israeli Politician - 17th November 2023 - Nov 17, 2023"All the preoccupation with whether or not there is internet in Gaza shows that we have learned nothing. We are too humane. Burn Gaza now, no less."
Read the tweet >UNNAMED ISRAELI
17th November 2023 - Nov 17, 2023(Israeli laughing)Interviewer: "Do you think it's funny that Israel is bombing innocent lives in Gaza?"Israeli: "We kill your babies, yeah!"Interviewer: "You think it's funny?"Israeli: "Yeah, it's very funny [...] fuck these babies."
Watch the video >Yoav Gallant
Israeli Politician - 11th November 2023 - Nov 11, 2023“I am saying here to the citizens of Lebanon, I already see the citizens in Gaza walking with white flags along the coast and moving south [...] Hezbollah is dragging Lebanon into a war that may happen, and it is making mistakes [...] If it makes mistakes of this kind, the ones who will pay the price are first of all the citizens of Lebanon. What we are doing in Gaza we know how to do in Beirut.”
Read the article >Amichai Eliyahu
Israeli Politician - 5th November 2023 - Nov 5, 2023"...we wouldn’t hand the Nazis humanitarian aid...there is no such thing as uninvolved civilians in Gaza.”
Read the article >Yogev Bar-Shesht
IDF Colonel - 4th November 2023 - Nov 4, 2023"Whoever returns here, if they return here after, will find scorched earth. No houses, no agriculture, no nothing. They have no future."
Read the article >Galit Distel Atbaryan
Israeli Politician - 1st November 2023 - Nov 1, 2023"Erase Gaza from the face of the earth. Let the Gazan monsters rush to the southern border and flee into Egypt, or die. And let them die badly. Gaza should be wiped off the map, and fire and brimstone on the heads of the Nazis in Judea and Samaria. Jewish wrath to shake the earth around the world. We need a cruel, vengeful IDF here. Anything less is immoral."
Read the article >BRIAN MAST
US Congressman - 1st November 2023 - Nov 1, 2023"I would encourage the other side to not so lightly throw around the idea of 'innocent Palestinian civilians', as is frequently said. I don't think we would so lightly throw around the term 'innocent Nazi civilians' during World War II [...] there's not this far stretch to say there are very few innocent Palestinian civilians."
Watch the video >STILLA & NES
Israeli Rappers - November 2023 - Nov 1, 2023"They are yelling at me 'Free Palestine'.But somehow it sounds to me like a holiday sale.Half a minute and the whole country is in uniform.In reserves, in regular service - everyone!(1, 2, Shoot!)For mom and dad!All my friends on the front lines.One for grandma and grandpa.Write names on tank shells for the kid in the Gaza strip."
Hear the song >Amichai Eliyahu
Israeli Politician - 1st November 2023 - Nov 1, 2023"The north of the Gaza Strip, more beautiful than ever. Everything is blown up and flattened, simply a pleasure for the eyes."
Read the article >STILLA & NES
Israeli Rappers - November 2023 - Nov 1, 2023"Who are you, thinking you can come here and yell 'Free Palestine!'?You sons of Amalek![...]We brought the whole army upon you and swear there will be no forgiveness.You sons of Amalek!"
Hear the song >BENJAMIN NETANYAHU
Israeli Politician - 28th October 2023 - Oct 28, 2023"You must remember what Amalek has done to you, says our Holy Bible. And we do remember."
Watch the video >BARAK HARIM
IDF General - 26th October 2023 - Oct 26, 2023IDF General: "And I'm very worried that if we revert our ways and enter into negotiations with the other side, we'll fall into a trap that will tie our hands and not allow us to do what's necessary, and that's to get into manoeuvres with them and kill them."Interviewer: "You're telling me that without going into the land, we can't finish the job?"IDF General: "I'm not aware of our capability to destroy Hamas, along with its authority, without going in and occupying the territory."
Watch the video >Moshe Feiglin
Israeli Politician - 26th October 2023 - Oct 26, 2023Feiglin: "We do not need a victory to restore the image of Israel's dignity or to restore our deterrent image which we have completely lost in the jungle that surrounds us. Now, we need to retaliate with strong vengeance [...] there is one and only solution, which is to completely destroy Gaza, before invading it. And when I talk about destruction, I mean destruction like it was in Dresden and Hiroshima, without a nuclear weapon. I don't recall that Biden or his predecessors...I don't recall that the Americans provided safe, humanitarian passageways for the residents of Nagasaki and Hiroshima. On the contrary, they looked for the weakest cities and over them they dropped their rockets, to make it clear that they were serious. This is what brought an end to the war and saved the lives of 1 million American soldiers."Interviewer: "And that is the price that hundreds of us paid?"Feiglin: "On the contrary. Now they have a very high number of deaths and it will remain that way. But if you do to them like what was done in Dresden, like what the British did, and if you burned everything, and if you threw bombs that penetrate defensive structures, to penetrate Al-Shifa hospital and destroy the ground from beneath it without any consequences..."
Watch the video >Revital GOTLIV
Israeli Politician - 23rd October 2023 - Oct 23, 2023"And for the government itself: if you decide to end the siege, and to break the siege, it will be, in my opinion, a terrible decision. Because without hunger and thirst among the Gaza population, we will not be able to recruit collaborators, we will not be able to recruit intelligence. We will not be able to bribe people with food, with drink, with medicine, in order to achieve intelligence. And we know that finding the hostages is the super important goal of the war."
Watch the video >GIORA EILAND
Former IDF Officer - 21st October 2023 - Oct 21, 2023"Creating a severe humanitarian crisis in Gaza is a necessary means to achieve the goal. Gaza will become a place where no human bring can exist."
Read the article >Tom Scott
US Senator - 15th October 2023 - Oct 15, 2023As far as I'm concerned, Israel can bounce the rubble in Gaza. Anything that happens in Gaza is the responsibility of Hamas. Hamas killed women and children in Israel last weekend. If women and children die in Gaza it will be because Hamas is using them as human shields."
Watch the video >ISAAC HERZOG
Israeli Politician - 13th October 2023 - Oct 13, 2023“It’s an entire nation out there that is responsible. This rhetoric about civilians not aware, not involved, it’s absolutely not true. They could’ve risen up, they could have fought against that evil regime."
Watch the video >UNNAMED IDF OFFICIAL
12th October 2023 - Oct 12, 2023“Gaza will eventually turn into a city of tents. There will be no buildings. The ground maneuver will surprise Hamas."
Read the article >Giora Eiland
Former IDF Officer - 11th October 2023 - Oct 11, 2023"We must create an unprecedented humanitarian disaster in Gaza. The ultimate tool - damage to the water system. Only the movement of tens of thousands and the cry of the international community will create the leverage for Gaza to be either without Hamas or without humans. We are in an existential war."
See the tweet >MAX MILLER
US Congressman - 11th October 2023 - Oct 11, 2023"...I don't even want to call it the Palestinian flag, because they're not a state. They're a territory that's about to probably get eviscerated and go away here shortly, as we're going to turn that into a parking lot."
Watch the video >Arnon Segal
Israeli Journalist - 11th October 2023 - Oct 11, 2023"Who dreamed even last week that there would be a wall-to-wall agreement in the Israeli public that the Gaza Strip should be reoccupied? The supporters and pushers of the disengagement, of Oslo and of the other withdrawals and foldings suddenly want to join the unity government in order to turn the wheel back together, to return us to the Gaza Strip, from which we fled 18 years ago with our tail folded between our legs, and to the city of Gaza, from which we fled thirty years ago. What could have been done well was done after an unbearably heavy blow, a terrible disaster of historical magnitude even in the dimensions of the Jewish people for the mode of suffering, but at least it was done. With all the sorrow it is allowed to appreciate that only such terrible circumstances could have convinced the leaders of the Jewish state to decide the battle. Even now there are those who doubt whether they have the necessary courage to do so. A heavy price will be exacted only if we wait and do not land a crushing blow on Hamas, a blow on the order of ten thousand dead of its people. If we make sure that they have many dead and that 400,000 refugees flee through the Rafah crossing, there will be no fear of mass slaughter among our soldiers."
Read the article >YOAV GALLANT
Israeli Politician - 10th October 2023 - Oct 10, 2023"I have released all the restraints, we have [regained] control of the area, and we are moving to a full offense [...] you will have the ability to change the reality here. You have seen the prices [being paid], and you will get to see the change. Hamas wanted a change in Gaza, it will change 180 degrees from what it thought [...] they will regret this moment, Gaza will never return to what it was [...] whoever comes to decapitate, murder women, Holocaust survivors — we will eliminate him with all our might, and without compromise."
Read the article >Lindsey Graham
US Senator - 10th October 2023 - Oct 10, 2023"We are in a religious war here - I am with Israel. Do whatever the hell you have to do to defend yourself. Level the place."
Read the tweet >REVITAL GOTLIV
Israeli Politician - 9th October 2023 - Oct 9, 2023"Jericho Missile! Jericho Missile! Strategic alert. before considering the introduction of forces.Doomsday weapon! This is my opinion.May God preserve all our strength."
Read the tweet >Yoav Gallant
Israeli Defence Minister - 9th October 2023 - Oct 9, 2023“No electricity, no food, no water, no gas. It's all closed. We are fighting animals and are acting accordingly."
Watch the video >DANIEL HAGARI
IDF Admiral - 9th October 2023 - Oct 9, 2023"While balancing accuracy with the scope of damage, right now we’re focused on what causes maximum damage."
Read the article >NISSIM VATURI
Israeli Politician - 7th October 2023 - Oct 7, 2023"We all have one common goal — erasing the Gaza Strip from the face of the earth. Those who are unable will be replaced."
Read the tweet >Ariel Kallner
Israeli Politician - 7th October 2023 - Oct 7, 2023“Nakba to the enemy now! This day is our Pearl Harbor. We will still learn the lessons. Rightnow, one goal: Nakba! A Nakba that will overshadow the Nakba of 48. A Nakba in Gaza and aNakba for anyone who dares to join!”
See the tweet >david verthaim
Israeli Journalist - 7th October 2023 - Oct 7, 2023"After I talked about unity, one principle that needs to be abandoned today: proportionality. We need a disproportionate response. May Israel see what she is hiding in the basement. If all the captives are not returned immediately, turn the strip into a slaughterhouse. If a hair falls from their head - execute security prisoners. Violate any norm, on the way to victory. For them to see and be seen. The Jordanians did it to Daesh. I don't remember the king being rude. And who will tell us something? Russia killing the Ukrainians? China? Or maybe Western Europe that allowed Azerbaijan to ethnically cleanse 100,000 people at night. World War II ended with the USA inflicting a holocaust on Hiroshima, and even before giving the Japanese a chance to digest, dropped another bomb on Nagasaki, while promising that every Japanese city would be destroyed until surrender. The Japanese were no less crazy than the Arabs. Sgt Arel did not take over my account. Those in front of us are human animals who do not hesitate to violate minimum rules, including the murder of medical staff and babies. This is not passed on."
Read the tweet >Revital Gottlieb
Israeli Politician - 7th October 2023 - Oct 7, 2023"Bring down buildings!! Bomb without distinction!! Stop with this impotence. You have ability.There is worldwide legitimacy! Flatten Gaza. Without mercy! This time, there is no room formercy!"
Read the tweet >Ariel Kallner
Israeli Politician - 7th October 2023 - Oct 7, 2023"Right now, one goal: Nakba! A Nakba that will overshadow the Nakba of 1948."
See the tweet >BENJAMIN NETANYAHU
Israeli Prime Minister - 7th October 2023 - Oct 7, 2023"The IDF will immediately use all its strength to destroy Hamas's capabilities. We will destroy them and we will forcefully avenge this dark day that they have forced on the State of Israel and its citizens. As Bialik wrote: 'Revenge for the blood of a little child has yet been devised by Satan'.All of the places which Hamas is deployed, hiding and operating in, that wicked city, we will turn them into rubble.I say to the residents of Gaza: Leave now because we will operate forcefully everywhere."
See the tweet >BRIAN MAST
US Congressman - October 2023 - Oct 1, 2023"Any assistance should be slowed down — any assistance [...] because I would challenge anybody in here to point to me, which Palestinian is Hamas, and which one is an innocent civilian? Which is the child that was poking other Israeli children? And which ones exactly are the innocent ones? [...] It should absolutely be every effort made to slow down any perceived assistance that’s going there."
Read the article >2018
2018Avigdor Liberman
Israeli Ex-Defence Minister - April 2018 - Apr 1, 2018"You have to understand, there are no innocent people in the Gaza Strip. Everyone has a connection to Hamas. Everyone receives a salary from Hamas."
Read the article >2014
2014Ayelet Shaked/Uri Elitzur
Israeli Politician posting Elitzur article - July 2014 - Jul 1, 2014"The Palestinian people has declared war on us, and we must respond with war. Not an operation, not a slow-moving one, not low-intensity, not controlled escalation, no destruction of terror infrastructure, no targeted killings. Enough with the oblique references. This is a war. Words have meanings. This is a war. It is not a war against terror, and not a war against extremists, and not even a war against the Palestinian Authority. These too are forms of avoiding reality. This is a war between two people. Who is the enemy? The Palestinian people. Why? Ask them, they started. I don’t know why it’s so hard for us to define reality with the simple words that language puts at our disposal. Why do we have to make up a new name for the war every other week, just to avoid calling it by its name. What’s so horrifying about understanding that the entire Palestinian people is the enemy? Every war is between two peoples, and in every war the people who started the war, that whole people, is the enemy. A declaration of war is not a war crime. Responding with war certainly is not. Nor is the use of the word “war”, nor a clear definition who the enemy is. Au contraire: the morality of war (yes, there is such a thing) is founded on the assumption that there are wars in this world, and that war is not the normal state of things, and that in wars the enemy is usually an entire people, including its elderly and its women, its cities and its villages, its property and its infrastructure.[...]And in our war this is sevenfold more correct, because the enemy soldiers hide out among the population, and it is only through its support that they can fight. Behind every terrorist stand dozens of men and women, without whom he could not engage in terrorism. Actors in the war are those who incite in mosques, who write the murderous curricula for schools, who give shelter, who provide vehicles, and all those who honor and give them their moral support. They are all enemy combatants, and their blood shall be on all their heads. Now this also includes the mothers of the martyrs, who send them to hell with flowers and kisses. They should follow their sons, nothing would be more just. They should go, as should the physical homes in which they raised the snakes. Otherwise, more little snakes will be raised there. There are celebrations of mourning and honor in two homes of two despicable murderers. I assume they have put up outdoor mourning structures, and all the dignitaries of the city come to honor the mother and father who raised the devil. Those two houses should be bombed from the air, with intention to destroy and to kill. And it should be announced that we will do this from now on to every home of every martyr. There is nothing more just, and probably nothing more efficient. Every suicide attacker should know that he takes with him also his parents and his house and some of the neighbors. Every brave Um-Jihad who sends her son to hell should know she’s going with him, along with the house and everything inside it. Prevention cannot be focused. That’s how it is in wars. Whatever’s focused cannot prevent. It is not we who started this dastardly war and it is not we who can stop it. The keys to the ceasefire are in the hands of the members of the Palestinian nation. We can only singe their fingers until they wish to use them."
Read the article >Ayelet Shaked/Uri Elitzur
Israeli Politician posting Elitzur article - July 2014 - Jul 1, 2014"The Palestinian people has declared war on us, and we must respond with war. Not an operation, not a slow-moving one, not low-intensity, not controlled escalation, no destruction of terror infrastructure, no targeted killings. Enough with the oblique references. This is a war. Words have meanings. This is a war. It is not a war against terror, and not a war against extremists, and not even a war against the Palestinian Authority. These too are forms of avoiding reality. This is a war between two people. Who is the enemy? The Palestinian people. Why? Ask them, they started. I don’t know why it’s so hard for us to define reality with the simple words that language puts at our disposal. Why do we have to make up a new name for the war every other week, just to avoid calling it by its name. What’s so horrifying about understanding that the entire Palestinian people is the enemy? Every war is between two peoples, and in every war the people who started the war, that whole people, is the enemy. A declaration of war is not a war crime. Responding with war certainly is not. Nor is the use of the word “war”, nor a clear definition who the enemy is. Au contraire: the morality of war (yes, there is such a thing) is founded on the assumption that there are wars in this world, and that war is not the normal state of things, and that in wars the enemy is usually an entire people, including its elderly and its women, its cities and its villages, its property and its infrastructure.[...]And in our war this is sevenfold more correct, because the enemy soldiers hide out among the population, and it is only through its support that they can fight. Behind every terrorist stand dozens of men and women, without whom he could not engage in terrorism. Actors in the war are those who incite in mosques, who write the murderous curricula for schools, who give shelter, who provide vehicles, and all those who honor and give them their moral support. They are all enemy combatants, and their blood shall be on all their heads. Now this also includes the mothers of the martyrs, who send them to hell with flowers and kisses. They should follow their sons, nothing would be more just. They should go, as should the physical homes in which they raised the snakes. Otherwise, more little snakes will be raised there. There are celebrations of mourning and honor in two homes of two despicable murderers. I assume they have put up outdoor mourning structures, and all the dignitaries of the city come to honor the mother and father who raised the devil. Those two houses should be bombed from the air, with intention to destroy and to kill. And it should be announced that we will do this from now on to every home of every martyr. There is nothing more just, and probably nothing more efficient. Every suicide attacker should know that he takes with him also his parents and his house and some of the neighbors. Every brave Um-Jihad who sends her son to hell should know she’s going with him, along with the house and everything inside it. Prevention cannot be focused. That’s how it is in wars. Whatever’s focused cannot prevent. It is not we who started this dastardly war and it is not we who can stop it. The keys to the ceasefire are in the hands of the members of the Palestinian nation. We can only singe their fingers until they wish to use them."
Read the article >2012
2012Gilad Sharon
Israeli Activist and Journalist - November 2012 - Nov 1, 2012"The desire to prevent harm to innocent civilians in Gaza will ultimately lead to harming the truly innocent: the residents of southern Israel. The residents of Gaza are not innocent, they elected Hamas. The Gazans aren’t hostages; they chose this freely, and must live with the consequences.[...]There is no justification for the State of Gaza being able to shoot at our towns with impunity. We need to flatten entire neighborhoods in Gaza. Flatten all of Gaza. The Americans didn’t stop with Hiroshima – the Japanese weren’t surrendering fast enough, so they hit Nagasaki, too. There should be no electricity in Gaza, no gasoline or moving vehicles, nothing. Then they’d really call for a ceasefire. Were this to happen, the images from Gaza might be unpleasant – but victory would be swift, and the lives of our soldiers and civilians spared. If the government isn’t prepared to go all the way on this, it will mean reoccupying the entire Gaza Strip. Not a few neighborhoods in the suburbs, as with Cast Lead, but the entire Strip, like in Defensive Shield, so that rockets can no longer be fired."
Read the article >2010
2010Ovadia Yosef
Sephardi Chief Rabbi of Israel - August 2010 - Aug 1, 2010"All these evil people should perish from this world. God should strike them with a plague, them and these Palestinians."
Read the article >Shmuel Eliyahu
Chief Rabbi of Safed - 2010 - Jan 1, 2010“When your god, Yahweh, brings you to the land that you are going to inherit, he will banish other nations [...] Yahweh will deliver them to you, and you will strike them down. Utterly destroy them, and do not sign any pacts with them. Show them no mercy.”
2001
2001Ovadia Yosef
Sephardi Chief Rabbi of Israel - 2001 - Jan 1, 2001"It is forbidden to be merciful to them. You must send missiles to them and annihilate them. They are evil and damnable."
Read the article >1992
1992Yitzhak Rabin
Former Israeli Prime Minister - September 1992 - Sep 1, 1992"I would like to see Gaza drown in the sea."
Read the article >1977
1977LIKUD PARTY 1977 CHARTER
1977 - Jan 1, 1977"a. The right of the Jewish people to the land of Israel is eternal and indisputable and is linked with the right to security and peace; therefore, Judea and Samaria will not be handed to any foreign administration; between the Sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty.b. A plan which relinquishes parts of western Eretz Israel, undermines our right to the country, unavoidably leads to the establishment of a "Palestinian State," jeopardizes the security of the Jewish population, endangers the existence of the State of Israel, and frustrates any prospect of peace."
Read the charter >LIKUD PARTY 1977 CHARTER
1977 - Jan 1, 1977"The PLO is no national liberation organization but an organization of assassins, which the Arab countries use as a political and military tool, while also serving the interests of Soviet imperialism, to stir up the area. Its aim is to liquidate the State of Israel, set up an Arab country instead and make the Land of Israel part of the Arab world. The Likud government will strive to eliminate these murderous organizations in order to prevent them from carrying out their bloody deeds."
Read the charter >LIKUD PARTY 1977 CHARTER
1977 - Jan 1, 1977"Settlement (both urban and rural) in all parts of the Land of Israel is the focal point of the Zionist effort to redeem the country."
Read the charter >1949
1949David Ben Gurion
First Israeli Prime Minister - 1949 - Jan 1, 1949"We must do everything to ensure they [the Palestinians] never do return...The old will die and the young will forget."
Read the article >WINSTON CHURCHILL
British Prime Minister - Jan 1949 - Jan 1, 1949Bevin: "It is an important commentary on this statement that over half a million Arabs have been turned by the Jewish immigrants into homeless refugees without employment or resources."Churchill: "Those half a million Arabs came in during the period of the 25 years of British administration, and were an addition to the Arab population, getting employment under the conditions we created."
Read the House of Commons debate record >1937
1937David Ben-gurion
First Israeli Prime Minister - 1937 - Jan 1, 1937"I see in the realisation of this plan practically the decisive stage in the beginning of full redemption and the most wonderful lever for the gradual conquest of all of Palestine."
Winston churchill
British Prime Minister - 1937 - Jan 1, 1937"I do not agree that the dog in a manger has the final right to the manger even though he may have lain there for a very long time. I do not admit that right. I do not admit, for instance, that a great wrong has been done to the Red Indians of America or the black people of Australia. I do not admit that a wrong has been done to these people by the fact that a stronger race, a higher-grade race, or, at any rate, a more worldly wise race, to put it that way, has come in and taken their place."
Read the article >David Ben-gurion
First Israeli Prime Minister - 1937 - Jan 1, 1937"We must first of all to free ourselves from the inertia of thought, will, and preconceived opinion–that this transfer is not possible. I see as before all of the terrible difficulty in a foreign power uprooting about 100,000 Arabs from their villages in which they lived for hundreds of years–would England dare to do it? Certainly it won’t do this–if we don’t want this, and if we don’t push for it with all the strength of our pressure and the strength of our faith.”
Read the diary entry >1921
1921Winston churchill
British Politician - Aug 1921 - Aug 1, 1921"In the interests of the Zionist policy, all elective institutions have so far been refused to the Arabs.”
Read the article >1895
1895THEODOR HERZL
Father of Modern Zionism - 1895 Diary Entry - Jan 1, 1895"When we occupy the land, we shall bring immediate benefits to the state that receives us. We must expropriate gently the private property on the estates assigned to us. 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 country. The property owners will come over to our side. Both the process of expropriation and the removal of the poor must be carried out discretely and circumspectly [...] It goes without saying that we shall respectfully tolerate persons of other faiths and protect their property, their honor, and their freedom with the harshest means of coercion. This is another area in which we shall set the entire world a wonderful example [...] should there be many such immovable owners in individual areas, who would not sell their property to us, we shall simply leave them there and develop our commerce in the direction of other areas which belong to us."