"Kill and kill and kill. All day, every day": Israel in the words of its founders and leaders - Part 3
The Israelis are talking a genocide as they are committing one. But the world watches on.
This article is the third in a series. Click here for the first part and here for the second part.
The ongoing Israeli savagery in Gaza has now extinguished the lives of nearly 10,000 innocent civilians — over half of them women and children — but the occupiers are showing no sign of stopping their industrial-scale slaughter of Palestinians any time soon. This week, they bombed Jabalia, Gaza’s biggest refugee camp, twice.
The so-called leaders of the “free world” have given them a free pass to the Israelis as they rain down some of the most advanced weaponry from the air — funded and supplied by the United States of America — and roll in tanks from the land on 2.3 million captive civilians who have been put under a siege for over three weeks.
Nowhere is safe from the Israeli’s genocidal campaign in the Gaza Strip. They have laid waste to everything in their sights. They have bombed hospitals, mosques, churches, schools, ambulances, health facilities, bakeries, housing units, refugee camps, and civilian infrastructure.
The genocidal Israeli campaign has few parallels in modern history.
And they are not keeping their plans of genocide of the Palestinians any secret. From Israeli President Isaac Herzog to sundry Members of the Israeli Parliament, from the Spokesperson of the Israeli army to former soldiers of the occupying force, everyone has explicitly laid out plans for ultimately annihilating Gaza’s Arab population.
But the world watches on.
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“Emphasis is on damage and not on accuracy.” [Source.]
— Daniel Hagari, Spokesperson of the Israeli Occupation Force
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“Gaza will eventually turn into a city of tents. There will be no buildings.” [Source.]
— An unnamed Israeli defence official
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“Be triumphant and finish them off, and don’t leave anyone behind. Erase the memory of them. Erase them, their families, mothers, and children. These animals can no longer live…Every Jew with a weapon should go out and kill them. If you have an Arab neighbour, don’t wait; go to his home and shoot him.” [Source.]
— Ezra Yachin, an Israeli army veteran and a Lehi terrorist
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“Right now, one goal: Nakba! A Nakba that will overshadow the Nakba of 48. Nakba in Gaza and Nakba to anyone who dares to join! their Nakba because, like then in 1948, the alternative is clear. Turn off the enemy now! This day is our Pearl Harbor. We will still learn the lessons. Right now, one goal: Nakba!” [Source.]
— Ariel Kallner, a member of the Knesset (Israeli Parliament)
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“I urge you to do everything and use Doomsday weapons fearlessly against our enemies.” [Source.]
— Tally Gotliv, a member of the Knesset
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“It is an entire nation out there that is responsible…this rhetoric about civilians not aware, not involved, it’s absolutely not true.” [Source.]
— Isaac Herzog, the President of Israel
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“When 2.5 million people live in a closed-off Gaza, it’s going to be a human catastrophe. Those people will become even bigger animals than they are today…The pressure at the border will be awful. It’s going to be a terrible war. So, if we want to remain alive, we will have to kill and kill and kill. All day, every day…the only thing that concerns me is how to ensure the boys and men who are going to have to do the killing will be able to return home to their families and be normal human beings.” [Source.]
— Arnon Sofer, the architect of the isolation of Gaza and an adviser to the government of Ariel Sharon, the 11th Prime Minister of Israel
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“The idea is to put the Palestinians on a diet, but not to make them die of hunger.” [Source.]
— Dov Weisglass, an adviser to Ehud Olmert, the 12th Prime Minister of Israel
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