Lena Bloch
4 min readJan 1, 2024

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REGARDING HATERS.

‘…They see but one thing: We have come and we have stolen their country…’ (David Ben Gurion — the first Israeli prime minister — quoted by Nahum Goldmann in Le Paraddoxe Juif (The Jewish Paradox), pp121.)

‘We must use terror, assassination, intimidation, land confiscation, and the cutting of all social services to rid the Galilee of its Arab population.’ (Israel Koenig, ‘The Koenig Memorandum’)

‘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.’ (Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, Oct. 3, 2001, to Shimon Peres, as reported on Kol Yisrael radio.)

‘I don’t know something called International Principles. I vow that I’ll burn every Palestinian child (that) will be born in this area. The Palestinian woman and child is more dangerous than the man, because the Palestinian child’s existence infers that generations will go on, but the man causes limited danger. I vow that if I was just an Israeli civilian and I met a Palestinian I would burn him and I would make him suffer before killing him. With one hit I’ve killed 750 Palestinians (in Rafah in 1956). I wanted to encourage my soldiers by raping Arabic girls as the Palestinian women is a slave for Jews, and we do whatever we want to her and nobody tells us what we shall do but we tell others what they shall do.’ (Prime Minister Ariel Sharon in an interview with General Ouze Merham, 1956)

‘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, addressing, as foreign minister, a meeting of militants from the extreme right-wing Tsomet Party, AFP, Nov. 15, 1998)

‘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 July 14, 1972.)

“Spirit the penniless population across the frontier by denying it employment… Both the process of expropriation and the removal of the poor must be carried out discreetly and circumspectly.” (Theodore Herzl, founder of the World Zionist Organization, speaking of the Arabs of Palestine, Complete Diaries, June 12, 1895 entry.)

“We will turn Gaza into an island of ruins” - Benjamin Netanyahu, Israeli Prime Minister

“We are dropping hundreds of tons of bombs on Gaza. The focus is on destruction, not accuracy”. - Daniel Hagari, Israeli Army spokesman

“There will be no electricity, no food, no fuel, everything is closed, we are fighting animal people and we act accordingly” - Yoav Gallant, Defense Minister of Israel

“It is an entire nation who are responsible. This rhetoric about civilians supposedly not being involved is absolutely untrue. And we will fight until we break their backs.” - Yitzhak Herzog, President of Israel

“Human animals will be treated accordingly. You wanted hell and you’ll get hell” - Ghassan Alian, Major General of the Israeli Army

“I want to tell the world what they have long known about me and Israel: I don’t care about Gaza. I literally don’t care about Gaza. They can go swim in the sea” - Maya Golan, Israeli Minister of Women Affairs

“Wipe out their families, their mothers and their children. These animals must not be allowed to live any longer” - Ezra Yahin, Israeli Army veteran

“Now there is only one goal: Naqba (expulsion of the Palestinians). A Naqba in Gaza that will dwarf the Naqba of 1948” - Ariel Kallner, Israeli MP, Likud Party (note that up to this point, Naqba was forbidden to mention in Israel and whoever mentioned it, got severe sanctions).

“Jericho Missile! Doomsday weapon! That’s my opinion. Powerful rockets to be fired without limits, Gaza to be smashed and razed to the ground without mercy” - Tally Gotliv, Israeli MP, Likud Party

“You must remember what Amalek did to you, Now go and attack Amalekites and completely destroy everything that belongs to them… put to death men and women, children and infants, cattle and sheep, camels and donkeys” - (1 Samuel 15:3) Benjamin Netanyahu quoting the Bible as Israeli actions.

A waving Israeli flag and CGI-enhanced footage of strikes on buildings as a group of Israeli children sings “We will annihilate them all, swastika-bearers”.

“We must do everything to ensure that the Arabs never do return. The old will die and the young will forget” - David Ben Gurion, first Prime Minister of Israel

Do we need to say more? Who is the biggest enemy of Israel and the Jewish people than Zionism itself?

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Lena Bloch
Lena Bloch

Written by Lena Bloch

Background in psychology of learning, literature, philosophy, math.

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