Date: 5/24/02 11:32 AM From: Ed Toner To: Ed Toner Copy: Subject: Compassionate, wise quotes from Zionists. "Spirit the penniless population across the border by denying it employment. Both the process of expropriation and the removal of the poor must be carried out discreetly and circumspectly." ---Theodore Herzi, founder of World Zionism, speaking of the Pale stinian Arabs, June 12, 1895. "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, from The Koenig Memorandum. "We must do everything to ensure that they (the Palestinian refugees) never do return."---David Ben-Gurion, May 1948. "We shall reduce the Arab population to a community of woodcutters and waiters."---Uri Lubrani, Ben-Gurion's advisor on Arab affairs, 1960. "Jewish villages were built in the place of Arab villages." (And) "There is not a single place built in this country that did not have a former Arab population."---Moshe Dayan, at Haifa, April 4, 1969. "...there is no Zionism, colonization, or Jewish state without the eviction of the Arabs and the expropriation of their lands." ---Yoram Bar Porath, July 14, l972. "If I was an Arab leader I would never make peace with Israel. That is natural; we have taken their country."---David Ben Gurion, 1978. "The Palestinians are beasts walking on two legs."---Menahim Begin, June 25, 1982. "Force is all they do or ever will understand. We shall use the ultimate force until the Palestinians come crawling to us on all fours."---Rafael Eitan, Chief of Israel Defense Forces, April 14, 1983. "Everyone 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, Nov 15, 1998