David Ben-Gurion: His famous quote regarding the Arabs, "If I were an Arab leader, I would never sign an agreement with Israel. It is normal; we have taken their country. It is true God promised it to us, but how could that interest them? Our God is not theirs. There has been Anti - Semitism, the Nazis, Hitler, Auschwitz, but was that their fault? They see but one thing: we have come and we have stolen their country. Why would they accept that?"
Source: Wikipedia!
I wonder what the 'xxxxx from Hifa' commentator gang would have answered if they were still here; since they bombarded us for weeks with all links from their wikipedia bible!
Well, the quote is there until some paranoid Semitic guy goes and delete or change it or might even accuse wikipedia for spreading anti-Semitism PROPAGANDA!
[Hat tip: Francisco]
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Haitham,
Today, from india to israel, U.K to United states, Eu to Eriteria If you area muslim, you are born as a terrorist from child hood. You do not have the right to live. I heard this from a forums run by all these groups, one of the friend forwarded the messages to me where a female writes that “if you are born as a muslim, your birth itself is the source of terrorism, so we are entitled to propogate hate and your generations to come. ” There are numerous others you follow the same lines and are deemed to be highly educated and civilized.
Haitham, we should rerun the imperialism in the country india, and south africa the attrocities and crimes the british carried out. We should also rerun the tapes of those freedom fighters from Chandra shekar azad, bose, gandi. Might be today, they would be terrorists as well.
Why do we spread iraqi democracy in U.K and U.S. lets do it. Queen is the head of the state there no. Let the people of U.S and U.K feel what is it like having similar scenarios as in Lebanon for thier generations to come.
Haitham,
Today, from india to israel, U.K to United states, Eu to Eriteria If you area muslim, you are born as a terrorist from child hood. You do not have the right to live. I heard this from a forums run by all these groups, one of the friend forwarded the messages to me where a female writes that “if you are born as a muslim, your birth itself is the source of terrorism, so we are entitled to propogate hate and your generations to come. ” There are numerous others you follow the same lines and are deemed to be highly educated and civilized.
Haitham, we should rerun the imperialism in the country india, and south africa the attrocities and crimes the british carried out. We should also rerun the tapes of those freedom fighters from Chandra shekar azad, bose, gandi. Might be today, they would be terrorists as well.
Why do we spread iraqi democracy in U.K and U.S. lets do it. Queen is the head of the state there no. Let the people of U.S and U.K feel what is it like having similar scenarios as in Lebanon for thier generations to come.
On the other hand, there’s this:
“After he said that the Palestinian people is ‘a mob that opts to extremism and rejection,’ Dahlan added: ‘The Palestinian leadership must force its decisions on the people, in some issue, even if it has to use a stick.’ He said that Ben Gurion, ‘the most important statesman in the history of the Israeli state, agreed to the establishment of a state without Jerusalem, just in order to establish a [political] entity and then to strengthen it. He agreed to resolution 181, made the decision, and announced the establishment of Israel, even though many Israelis objected to that. We can force a [certain] faction to stop launching mortar shells, because the Israelis are bulldozing 200 dunums in response. Had Arafat declared a state without Jerusalem, he would have been labeled ‘a traitor,’ even by the Fatah.’”
http://www.memri.org/bin/articles.cgi?Page=subjects&Area=middleeast&ID=SP43002
Where is the Palestinian Ben Gurion?
this quote is offered out of context. ben gurion was referring to the nature of the palestinian narrative, not the nature of jewish colonization. he is saying, “what do they care that this is our inheritance? they believe it belongs to them. you can’t change that.”
“And We said after him to the Children of Israel: ‘Dwell in the land, then, when the time of the second promise comes, We will bring you all together as a mixed crowd.’” al-quran 17:104
the zionist failure is not in the belief of the right of the descendants of jacob to the land of israel — the quran makes their inheritance clear. rather, the complaint of islam against the jewish people is that they have turned away from g-d, as they had been warned against repeatedly — in the case of zionism, exalting european notions of race and nationhood above devotion to g-d. israel’s failure, as repeatedly elucidated in tanakh, has been that they turn from g-d’s way, even in their supposed piety.
zev jabotinsky wrote, “There is no justice, no law, and no God in heaven, only a single law which decides and supercedes all: settlement [of Israel].”
israel can only be redeemed through righteousness and repentance, not through bloodshed.
If i were an Arab leader i might make peace because that is what a few countries have done and look the Jews are no threat to them. And we can get lots of US tax dollars in aid. And gee people can stop killing each other.
@hashishin –
Hi, I am making a zine comparing the ethnic cleansing of the indigenous Americas to the ethnic cleansing of Palestine. Can I quote you in my zine if I send you a copy? I’d really appreciate it, this is a smart and articulate reply.
@Ramfis – I’m not sure if the commenter you are referring to will read your request… it’s more than two years old post here.
OTOH, I think you can safely quote anything from the blog….
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