"We are now actually rolling out the Gaza Nakba": Israel in the words of its founders and leaders - Part 5
From talking about the genocide of Palestinians to conquering more Arab lands, the Israelis have been vocal about their aims. Are we listening yet?
This article is the fifth in a series. Find the first four articles at these links: 1, 2, 3, 4.
Over 11,000 Palestinian civilians — including over 4,500 children — have been ruthlessly massacred by the bloodthirsty Israeli regime as it continues its extermination campaign of the indigenous inhabitants of the land it has occupied since 1948.
While the Western settler colonial outpost in the Middle East continues its butchery of innocent civilians in Gaza and the West Bank, the self-proclaimed Leaders of the Free World™ are still not entertaining any talk of a ceasefire 5 weeks into the orgy of violence that has consumed everything from hospitals to schools to civilian infrastructure.
The US President Joe Biden declared, “None, no possibility,” when asked about the possibility of a ceasefire before shamelessly breaking into a jig.
Meanwhile, the leaders of the settler colonial apartheid state of Israel have been taking to the airwaves, explicitly declaring their genocidal plans for Gaza and the West Bank.
One Israeli minister has boasted about how his government is enacting “the Gaza Nakba,” while a settler leader is smacking her lips at the prospect of expanding the Israeli borders from the Euphrates in Iraq to the Nile in Egypt. The bloodthirsty maniacs in Israel aren’t content with their fanciful dreams of annexing all of Palestine from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea, they want more.
None of this has been a secret, anyway. The Israelis have always been explicit in their genocidal dreams of wholesale conquest of Arab lands. The question is, when will we start paying attention?
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"We are now actually rolling out the Gaza Nakba." [Source.]
— Avi Dichter, Israel's Minister for Agriculture and former head of Shin Bet
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“The land of Israel belongs to the people of Israel, and all of Gaza belongs to the Land of Israel. According to the map, from the Euphrates to the Nile River. What if it’s in our hands? We have just seen the Arabs leaving [their homes]. We have to invade. When? Directly after the war. We can invade the northern borders immediately.” [Source.]
— Daniella Weiss, the head of the Nahala settlement movement
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“This [dropping nuclear bombs on Gaza] is one of the options.” [Source.]
— Amichai Eliyahu, Israel’s Heritage Minister
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“You're [Arabs in the state of Israel] here by mistake. It's a mistake that Ben-Gurion didn't finish the job and didn't throw you out in 1948.” [Source.]
— Bezalel Smotrich, Israel’s Minister of Finance
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“The anti-Semites will become our most dependable friends, the anti-Semitic countries our allies.” [Source.]
— Theodore Herzl, founder of the World Zionist Organization
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Any native people — its all the same whether they are civilized or savage — views their country as their national home, of which they will always be the complete masters. They will not voluntarily allow, not only a new master, but even a new partner. And so it is for the Arabs. Compromisers in our midst attempt to convince us that the Arabs are some kind of fools who can be tricked by a softened formulation of our goals, or a tribe of money grubbers who will abandon their birth right to Palestine for cultural and economic gains. I flatly reject this assessment of the Palestinian Arabs. Culturally they are 500 years behind us, spiritually they do not have our endurance or our strength of will, but this exhausts all of the internal differences. We can talk as much as we want about our good intentions; but they understand as well as we what is not good for them. They look upon Palestine with the same instinctive love and true fervor that any Aztec looked upon his Mexico or any Sioux looked upon his prairie. To think that the Arabs will voluntarily consent to the realisation of Zionism in return for the cultural and economic benefits we can bestow on them is infantile. This childish fantasy of our ‘Arabo-philes’ comes from some kind of contempt for the Arab people, of some kind of unfounded view of this race as a rabble ready to be bribed in order to sell out their homeland for a railroad network. [Source.]
— Vladimir Jabotinsky, a Revisionist Zionist leader
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“I believe that the [Palestinian] village of Huwara should be wiped out. I believe that the state of Israel should do so, and not, God forbid, ordinary individuals.” [Source.]
— Bezalel Smotrich again
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“The truth about Arab settlement which used to exist in the area of the State of Israel before 1948, is one of the most guarded secrets of Israeli life. No publication, book, or pamphlet gives either [the] number [of Arab villages] or their location. This of course is done on purpose, so that the accepted official myth of “an empty country” can be taught and accepted in the Israeli schools and told to visitors...This falsification is specially grave in my opinion, as it is accepted almost universally, outside the Middle East, and because the destroyed villages were—in almost all cases—destroyed completely, with their houses, garden-walls, and even cemeteries and tombstones, so that literally a stone does not remain standing, and visitors are passing and being told that ‘it was all desert.’” [Source.]
— Israel Shahak, former head of Israeli League for Human and Civil Rights
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“All the territory that is west of the Jordan River can only be [held] by one nation: the Jewish people.” [Source.]
— Tzipi Hotovely, Israel’s Ambassador to the UK
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