Originally Posted by SentToStud

I've read a lot of Horowitz. He's certainly interesting. But there's always another side....

"The Palestinians are beasts walking on two legs."
-- Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin, speech to the Knesset, 1982.

"We walked outside, Ben-Gurion accompanying us. Allon repeated his question, What is to be done with the Palestinian population?' Ben-Gurion waved his hand in a gesture which said 'Drive them out!"-- Yitzhak Rabin, leaked censored version of Rabin memoirs, published in the New York Times, 23 October 1979.

"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."-- David Ben Gurion, 1938 speech.


"Israel should have exploited the repression of the demonstrations in China, when world attention focused on that country, to carry out mass expulsions among the Arabs of the territories."-- Benyamin Netanyahu, then Israeli Deputy Foreign Minister, 1989.

"With compulsory transfer we [would] have a vast area [for settlement] .... I support compulsory transfer. I don't see anything immoral in it." -- Ben Gurion, 1937

Hell, you can go back to the late 1800's and pull quotes from Zangwill or this one from Syrkin, "Palestine thinly populated, in which the Jews constituted today 10 percent of the population, must be evacuated for the Jews." Syrkin, Expulsion Of The Palestinians

You can pull all kinds of quotes and information out of context. You can even make 10 minute videos of it. It's all compelling and very interesting but it's most frequently done to support a point of view.