zionist leaders frank statements from center for policy research cpr subject zionist leaders frank statements the following are quotations from zionist leaders they appear in numerous scholarly works dealing with the palestine question i urge those who have access to original sources to verify the authenticity of the source and post here their finding adhering to the truth whatever it be thanks elias davidsson quotations from zionist leaders there was no such thing as palestinians golda meir prime minister of israel london sunday times june there is however a difficulty from which the zionist dares not avert his eyes though he rarely likes to face it palestine proper has already its inhabitants israel zangwill the voice of jerusalem london p when we have settled the land all the arabs will be able to do about it will be to scurry around like drugged cockroaches in a bottle raphael eitan israeli chief of staff new york times april the palestinians are beasts walking on two legs menachem begin prime minister of israel in a speech to the knesset quoted in amnon kapeliouk begin and the beasts new statesman june both the process of expropriation of the palestinians and the removal of the poor must be carried out discreetly and circumspectly dr theodor herzl the complete diaries herzl press i p between ourselves it must be clear that there is no room for both people together in this country the only solution is a palestine without arabs and there is no other way than to transfer the arabs from here to the neighboring countries to transfer all of them not one village not one tribe should be left joseph weitz jewish national fund administrator responsible for zionist colonization davar september we shall try to spirit the penniless population the palestinians across the border by procuring employment for it in the transit countries while denying it any employment in our own country theodor herzl the complete diaries herzl press i p zionists looked for means to cause the tens of thousands of sulky arabs who remained in the galilee to flee i gathered all the jewish muktars who have contact with arabs in different villages and asked them to whisper in the ears of some arabs that a great jewish reinforcement has arrived in galilee and that it is going to burn all of the villages of the huleh they should suggest to these arabs as their friends to escape while there is still time the tactic reached its goal wide areas were cleaned yig al alon sepher ha palmach in hebrew ii p quoted in khalidi from haven to conquest ips jews must expel arabs and take their place david ben gurion quoted in shabtai teveth ben gurion and the palestine arabs oxford university press p we must do everything to ensure they the palestinian refugees never do return david ben gurion in his diary july quoted in michael bar zohar ben gurion the armed prophet prentice hall p the country was mostly an empty desert with only a few islands of arab settlement shimon peres minister of defense quoted in david s sling the arming of israel weidenfeld and nicholson p all this story about the danger of extermination of jews has been blown up to justify the annexation of new arab territories mordechai bentov israeli cabinet minister al hamishmar april neither jewish ethics nor jewish tradition can disqualify terrorism as a means of combat yitzhak shamir hehazit summer journal of the lehi the stern gang translated from the israeli daily al hamishmar december the domination of jewish agriculture by arab workers is a cancer in our body a uzan israeli minister of agriculture ha aretz december there can be only one national home in palestine and that a jewish one and no equality in the partnership between jews and arabs montague david eder president of the zionist federation of great britain in doreen ingrams comp palestine papers seeds of conflict george braziller p i hope that the jewish frontiers of palestine will be as great as jewish energy for getting palestine dr chaim weizmann first president of the state of israel excerpts from his historic statements writings and addresses jewish agency for palestine p there is not a single jewish village in this country that has not been built on the site of an arab village moshe dayan ha aretz april some people talk of expelling to arabs in the event of a new war and instruments have been prepared aharon yariv former chief of israeli military intelligence inquiry december if i was an arab leader i would never make peace with israel that is natural we have taken their country david ben gurion in nahum goldmann the jewish paradox weidenfeld and nicolson p we should there in palestine form a portion of the rampart of europe against asia an outpost of civilization as opposed to barbarism dr theodor herzl the jewish state london p i deeply believe in launching preventive war against the arab states without further hesitation by doing so we will achieve two targets firstly the annihilation of arab power and secondly the expansion of our territory menachem begin in a speech to the knesset october during the last years our people have been in a process of building up the country and the nation of expansion of getting additional jews and additional settlements in order to expand the borders here let no jew say that the process has ended let no jew say that we are near the end of the road moshe dayan ma ariv july until the british left no jewish settlement however remote was entered or seized by the arabs while the haganah under severe and frequent attack captured many arab positions and liberated tiberias and haifa jaffa and safad david ben gurion rebirth and destiny of israel philosophical library p in the months preceding the arab invasion of and while the five arab states were conducting preparations we continued to make sallies into arab territory the conquest of jaffa stands out as an event of first rate importance in the struggle for hebrew independence early in may on the eve of the invasion by the five arab states menachem begin the revolt nash p what the french could do in tunisia i said the jews would be able to do in palestine with jewish will jewish money jewish power and jewish enthusiasm dr chaim weizmann first president of the state of israel trial and error harper p i do not think nasser wanted war the two divisions he sent to the sinai on may would not have been sufficient to launch an offensive against israel he knew it and we knew it yitzhak rabin le monde february to pretend that the egyptian forces massed on our frontiers in were in position to threaten the existence of israel constitutes an insult not only to the intelligence of anyone capable of analyzing this sort of situation but above all an insult to the zahal israeli army general res matti peled ha aretz march when we have broken the strength of the arab legion and bombarded amman we would wipe out transjordan after that syria would fall we would thus end the war and would have put paid to egypt assyria and chaldea on behalf of our ancestors david ben gurion in his diaries quoted in michael bar zohar the armed prophet a biography of ben gurion prentice hall p these jews of the diaspora would like to see us for their own reasons heroes with our backs to the wall but this wish can in no way change the realities israeli general ezer weizmann le monde june let us not today fling accusations at the palestinian arab murderers who are we that we should argue against their hatred for eight years now they sit in their refugee camps in gaza and before their very eyes we turn into our homestead the land and the villages in which they and their forefathers have lived we are a generation of settlers and without the steel helmet and the cannon we cannot plant a tree and build a home let us not shrink back when we see the hatred fermenting and filling the lives of hundreds of thousands of arabs who sit all around us let us not avert our gaze so that our hand shall not slip this is the fate of our generation the choice of our life to be prepared and armed strong and tough or otherwise the sword will slip from our first and our life will be snuffed out moshe dayan eulogy of roy rutenberg at kibbutz nahal oz quoted in uri avneri israel without zionists collier books macmillan new york p
