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1969 press conference in London.

Bibi Netanyahu,prime minister,

1996-1999, 2009 to present:

“[The way to deal with Palestinians is to]

beat them up, not once but repeatedly,

beat them up so it hurts so badly, until it’s

unbearable.” Caught on video speaking to

Israeli settlers, 2001

“Will we surround all of the State of Is-

rael with fences and barriers? The answer

is yes. In the area that we live in, we must

defend ourselves against the wild beasts.”

Haaretz, Feb. 9, 2016

“Israel should have exploited the repres-

sion of the demonstrations in China, when

world attention focused on that country, to

carry out mass expulsions among the

Arabs of the territories.” Speech to stu-

dents at Bar Ilan University in 1989

Yitzhak Rabin,prime minister 1974-

1977, 1992-1995:Nobel Laureate who

instructed soldiers to break the arms and

legs of Palestinians when they began their

popular uprising against the Israeli occu-

pation in 1987. Israel will“create in the

course of the next 10 to 20 years condi-

tions which would attract the voluntary mi-

grations of Palestinians.”

Yitzhak Shamir, prime minister 1983-

1984, 1986-1992,speech to Israeli set-

tlers: “[The Palestinians] would be crushed

like grasshoppers...heads smashed against

the boulders and walls.” Speech quoted in

theNew York Times, 1988

Ariel Sharon, prime minister 2001-

2006:

“Every time we do something you tell me

America will do this and will do that...I want

to tell you something very clear: Don't worry

about American pressure on Israel. We, the

Jewish people, control America, and the

Americans know it.” Oct. 3, 2001, to Shimon

Peres, as reported on Kol Yisrael radio.

“You buy from Arabs. For this they piss

on you.” Quote recalled by Haaretz colum-

nist Kobi Niv

“Everybody has to move, run and grab

as many hilltops as they can to enlarge the

settlements because everything we take

now will stay ours...Everything we don’t

grab will go to them.” Agence France

Press, Nov. 15, 1998

“No one will touch Judea and Samaria

[the occupied West Bank]! Or Gaza either!

They belong to us. They have been ours

for thousands of years, eternally.” The

Guardian, 1982

“I am for the expulsion of anyone who

throws a stone in the occupied territories.”

March 16, 1988

“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.” BBC News Online, March 25, 2001

MEMBERS OF THE KNESSET AND

OTHER PUBLIC OFFICIALS

MK Rabbi Eli Ben-Dahan, deputy min-

ister of religious services 2013-2015,

currently deputy minister of defense, re-

sponsible for the IDF’s civil administration

running government affairs in the West

Bank:

“[Palestinians] are beasts, they are not

human.” Aug. 1, 2013

“To me, they are like animals, they aren’t

human...The Palestinians aren’t educated

towards peace, nor do they want it.” 2013

radio interview, reported in The Times of

Israel, May 11, 2015

“A Jew always has a much higher soul

than a gentile, even if he is a homosexual.”

Reported in Maariv, Dec. 27, 2013

Naftali Bennett,minister of education

since 2015 and minister of diaspora

affairs since 2013:

“If you catch terrorists, you have to sim-

ply kill them...I’ve killed lots of Arabs in my

life—and there’s no problem with that.”

Said at a July 2013 Knesset meeting, re-

ported by Yedioth Ahronoth

Rafael Eitan, Israeli general, former

chief of staff of the Israel Defense

Forces, and later a Knesset member:

“We declare openly that the Arabs have

no right to settle on even one centimeter

of Eretz Israel...Force is all they do or ever

will understand. We shall use the ultimate

force until the Palestinians come crawling

to us on all fours.” April 13, 1983

“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.” April 14, 1983

MK Moshe Feiglin, 2013-2015:

“Gaza is part of our Land and we will re-

main there forever...Subsequent to the

elimination of terror from Gaza, it will be-

come part of sovereign Israel and will be

populated by Jews.” July 2014 op-ed on

Arutz Sheva website

“Our soldiers are the only innocents in

Gaza. Under no circumstances should

they be killed because of false morality

that prefers to protect enemy civilians.

One hair on the head of an Israeli soldier

is more precious than the entire Gazan

populace, which elected the Hamas and

supports and encourages anyone who

murders Israelis.” Feiglin’s Facebook

page, July 2014

Theodor Herzl, founder of the World

Zionist Organization,speaking of the

Arabs of Palestine: “Spirit the penniless

population across the frontier by denying it

employment...Both the process of expro-

priation and the removal of the poor must

be carried out discreetly and circum-

spectly.”Complete Diaries, June 12, 1895

entry

MK Tzipi Hotovely,deputy minister

of foreign affairs since 2015.

“[There are] 92,000 families in Israel in

which one of the partners is not Jewish—we

have a real problem that we have to deal

with.” The Jerusalem Post,Feb. 11, 2011

Ze’ev Jabotinsky,spiritual father of

the Likud Party:

“The Islamic soul must be broomed

[swept, ethnically cleansed]out of Eretz-

Yisrael.”

“Arabs must make room for Jews. If it

was possible to transfer the Baltic peoples,

it is also possible to TRANSFER the

Palestinians.”

"If we desire that Israel should become

and remain a Jewish State, we must first

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