"We want to close the option for a Palestinian state": Israel in the words of its founders and leaders - Part 6
Israel's genocidal mission in Gaza continues, and so does the incendiary rhetoric of the Israeli leadership.
This article is the sixth in a series. Find the first five articles at these links: 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5.
After a fragile truce that didn’t even last a week, the Israelis have resumed their genocidal campaign in Gaza. Within a day, they exterminated 178 more Palestinians, adding further to the 20,000 civilian death toll recorded during the days before the truce came into action.
During the days when the truce was in effect, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu laid the foundation for another illegal settlement in occupied Palestine. His ministers continued their genocidal rhetoric, and the children-murdering Israeli occupation forces, in tandem with land-stealing, weapons-wielding, knife-stabbing thug settlers, continued their terrorising of the Palestinians.
The Leaders of the Free World™ have given the Israelis the full licence of impunity — combined with unlimited financial funds and state-of-the-art weaponry on demand — to aid and abet the illegal state’s campaign of extinguishing Palestinian lives by the thousands.
Israeli politicians have run away with the licence.
They are openly talking about blocking the very “option for a Palestinian state” and musing about using epidemics as a tactic of warfare. Most politicians anywhere else in the world wouldn’t dare voice such opinions in public, but rules don’t apply to the criminal mafia wearing the garb of a legitimate state.
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“In the last few days I hear a question — will Israel return to fighting after this phase of returning our abductees is exhausted? So my answer is unequivocal - yes. There is no way we are not going back to fighting until the end. This is my policy. The entire cabinet stands behind it, the entire government stands behind it, the soldiers stand behind it, the people stand behind it — and that is exactly what we will do.” [Source.]
— Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli Prime Minister
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“We will restore the settlements, expand the settlements, and add more settlements. The wheat will grow again.” [Source.]
— Benjamin Netanyahu again
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“In Israel, there’s a lot of support for settlements, and this is why there have been right-wing governments for so many years. The world, especially the United States, thinks there is an option for a Palestinian state, and, if we continue to build communities, then we block the option for a Palestinian state. We want to close the option for a Palestinian state, and the world wants to leave the option open. It’s a very simple thing to understand.” [Source.]
— Daniella Weiss, a leader of the settler movement in the West Bank
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“The international community warns of a humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza and of severe epidemics. We must not shy away from it, as hard as it is. After all, severe epidemics in the south of the strip will hasten victory.” [Source.]
— Giora Eiland, an Israeli General
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“I know what America is. America is a thing you can move very easily, move it in the right direction. They won't get in their way.
“They asked me before the election if I'd honor [the Oslo accords]. “I said I would, but ... I'm going to interpret the accords in such a way that would allow me to put an end to this galloping forward to the '67 borders. How did we do it? Nobody said what defined military zones were. Defined military zones are security zones; as far as I'm concerned, the entire Jordan Valley is a defined military zone. Go argue.” [Source 1.] [Source 2.]
— Netanyahu again
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“There [in Palestine] we shall be a sector of the wall of Europe against Asia, we shall serve as the outpost of civilization against barbarism.” [Source.]
— Theodore Herzl, the founding father of Zionism
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“On one side, the forces of destruction, the forces of the desert, have arisen, and on the other side stand firm the forces of civilization and building. It is the old war of the desert against civilization, but we will not be stopped.” [Source.]
— Chaim Weizmann, Israel’s first President
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[Israel is] “a villa in the jungle.” [Source.]
— Ehud Barak, former Prime Minister of Israel
