Who Said That?

Who Said That?



Another day, another war crime.

But is this really a knee-jerk reaction to the kidnapping of two Israeli soldiers? Consider the following when you are arguing with your friends/colleagues/enemies/man in pub over whether or not Israel should or should not be laying Lebanon and its innocent citizens to waste:

'We have to kill all the Palestinians unless they are resigned to live here as slaves.'

- Chairman Heilbrun of the Committee for the Re-election of General Shlomo Lahat, the mayor of Tel Aviv, October 1983.

'We should prepare to go over to the offensive. Our aim is to smash Lebanon, Trans-Jordan, and Syria. The weak point is Lebanon, for the Moslem regime is artificial and easy for us to undermine. We shall establish a Christian state there, and then we will smash the Arab Legion, eliminate Trans-Jordan; Syria will fall to us. We then bomb and move on and take Port Said, Alexandria and Sinai.'

- David Ben-Gurion, May 1948, to the General Staff. From Ben-Gurion, A Biography, by Michael Ben-Zohar, Delacorte, New York 1978.

'It is the duty of Israeli leaders to explain to public opinion, clearly and courageously, a certain number of facts that are forgotten with time. The first of these is that there is no Zionism, colonialization or Jewish State without the eviction of the Arabs and the expropriation of their lands.'

- Yoram Bar Porath, Yediot Aahronot, of 14 July 1972.

'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.'

- Ariel Sharon, Israeli Foreign Minister, addressing a meeting of militants from the extreme right-wing Tsomet Party, Agence France Presse, November 15, 1998.

"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."

- Israeli Prime Minister, Ariel Sharon, October 3, 2001, to Shimon Peres, as reported on Kol Yisrael radio.

And all the while that this "prophecy" is being played out, the US and UK are abstaining, vetoing, rejecting discussion of and refusing to accept this disgraceful, despicable, evil, inhuman behaviour for what it really is...

...Disgraceful, despicable, evil, inhuman behaviour...

...and they planned it too.