Re: Your tax dollars at work,for Israel.
Although Israeli politicians and their supporters in <o
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the U.S. often claimed that the purpose of Jewish <o
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settlements in the West Bank and Gaza is for Israeli <o
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security, the quotes below give insight into their true <o
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purpose?expanding Israeli territory and obstructing <o
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peace, in violation of international law. <o
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International law
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"The Occupying Power shall not deport or transfer <o
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parts of its own civilian population into the <o
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territory it occupies." ?Article 49 of the Fourth <o
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Geneva Convention of 1949<o
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"We consider these settlements to be contrary to <o
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the Geneva Convention, that occupied territory <o
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should not be changed by establishment of permanent <o
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settlements by the occupying power".
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President Carter (Q&A with American Jewish Press <o
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Association, June 13, 1980, Washington) <o
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"Since the end of the 1967 war, the U.S. has <o
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regarded Israel as the occupying power in the <o
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occupied territories, which includes the West Bank, <o
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Gaza, East Jerusalem, and the Golan Heights. The <o
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U.S. considers Israel's occupation to be governed <o
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by the Hague Regulations of 1907 and the 1949 <o
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Geneva Conventions concerning the protection of <o
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civilian populations under military occupation."
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?US Ambassador to the UN Pickering (27 November <o
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1989) <o
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Expansion and settlement
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"It's not a matter of maintaining the status quo. <o
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We have to create a dynamic state, oriented towards <o
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expansion." ?Ben Gurion <o
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"Take the American declaration of Independence. It <o
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contains no mention of territorial limits. We are <o
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not obliged to fix the limits of the State."<o
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?Moshe Dayan (
Jerusalem Post, 08/10/1967) <o
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"The settlement of the Land of Israel is the<o
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essence of Zionism. Without settlement, we will <o
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not fulfill Zionism. It's that simple."
?Yitzhak Shamir (
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"In strategic terms, the settlements (in Judea, <o
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Samaria, and Gaza) are of no importance."<o
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?Binyamin Begin, son of the late Menahem Begin and <o
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a prominent voice in the Likud party writing in <o
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1991. (Quoted in Findley,
Deliberate Deceptions; p <o
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159) Paul Findley notes that Begin added that their <o
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importance was that "they constitute an obstacle, <o
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an insurmountable obstacle to the establishment of <o
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an independent Arab State west of the river <o
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Jordan." <o
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"Without [the settlements] the IDF [Israeli Defense <o
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Force] would be a foreign army ruling a foreign <o
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population." ? Defense Minister Moshe Dayan (quoted <o
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in Aronson, Geoffrey,
Settlements and the Israeli-<o></o>
Palestinian Negotiations; Institute for Palestinian <o
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Studies) <o
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"The past leaders of our movement left us a clear <o
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message to keep Eretz Israel from the Sea to the <o
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River Jordan for future generations, for the mass <o
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aliya [immigration], and for the Jewish people, all <o
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of whom will be gathered into this country."<o
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?Yitzhak Shamir ("Former Prime Minister Yitzhak <o
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Shamir declares at a Tel Aviv memorial service for <o
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former Likud leaders"; Jerusalem Domestic Radio <o
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Service, November 1990) <o
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"Everybody has to move, run and grab as many hilltops as </pre>
they can to enlarge the settlements because everything we</pre>
take now will stay ours... Everything we don't grab will </pre>
go to them." Ariel Sharon, Israeli Foreign Minister,</pre>
addressing a meeting of militants from the extreme right-</pre>
wing Tsomet Party, Agence France Presse, November 15, 1998.</pre>
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be able to do about it will be to scurry around <o
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like drugged cockroaches in a bottle." ? Raphael <o
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Eitan, Chief of Staff of the Israeli Defence Forces <o
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New York Times, 14 April 1983) <o
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Expulsion of Palestinians
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"We must do everything to ensure they [the Palestinian </pre>
refugees] never do return" David Ben-Gurion, in his diary, </pre>
18 July 1948, quoted in Michael Bar Zohar's Ben-Gurion: the </pre>
Armed Prophet, Prentice-Hall, 1967, p. 157.</pre> <!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--> <!--[endif]--><o
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"We declare openly that the Arabs have no right to settle </pre>
on even one centimeter of Eretz Israel... Force is all they </pre>
do or ever will understand. We shall use the ultimate </pre>
force until the Palestinians come crawling to us on all </pre>
fours." Rafael Eitan, Chief of Staff of the Israeli </pre>
Defence Forces - Gad Becker, Yediot Ahronot 13 April 1983, </pre>
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"If I was an Arab leader I would never make [peace] with </pre>
Israel. That is natural: we have taken their country." </pre>
David Ben Gurion, quoted in The Jewish Paradox, by Nahum </pre>
Goldmann, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1978, p. 99.</pre> <!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--> <!--[endif]--><o
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"Jewish villages were built in the place of Arab villages. </pre>
You do not even know the names of these Arab villages, and </pre>
I do not blame you because geography books no longer exist.</pre>
Not only do the books not exist, the Arab villages are not </pre>
there either. Nahlal arose in the place of Mahlul; Kibbutz</pre>
Gvat in the place of Jibta; Kibbutz Sarid in the place of </pre>
Huneifis; and Kefar Yehushua in the place of Tal al-Shuman.</pre>
There is not a single place built in this country that did </pre>
not have a former Arab population." Moshe Dayan, address </pre>
to the Technion, Haifa, reported in Haaretz, April 4, 1969.</pre>
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"We walked outside, Ben-Gurion accompanying us. Allon </pre>
repeated his question, What is to be done with the </pre>
Palestinian population?' Ben-Gurion waved his hand in a </pre>
gesture which said 'Drive them out!'" Yitzhak Rabin leaked</pre>
censored version of Rabin memoirs, published in the New </pre>
York Times, 23 October 1979.</pre>
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"There are some who believe that the non-Jewish population, </pre>
even in a high percentage, within our borders will be more </pre>
effectively under our surveillance; and there are some who </pre>
believe the contrary, i.e., that it is easier to carry out </pre>
surveillance over the activities of a neighbor than over</pre>
those of a tenant.
tend to support the latter view and </pre>
have an additional argument:...the need to sustain the </pre>
character of the state which will henceforth be </pre>
Jewish...with a non-Jewish minority limited to 15</pre>
percent. I had already reached this fundamental position as </pre>
early as 1940 [and] it is entered in my diary." Joseph </pre>
Weitz, head of the Jewish Agency's Colonization Department. </pre>
From Israel: an Apartheid State by Uri Davis, p.5.</pre>
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"It is the duty of Israeli leaders to explain to public </pre>
opinion, clearly and courageously, a certain number of </pre>
facts that are forgotten with time. The first of these is </pre>
that there is no Zionism, colonization or Jewish State</pre>
without the eviction of the Arabs and the expropriation of </pre>
their lands." Yoram Bar Porath, Yediot Aahronot, of 14 </pre>
July 1972.</pre> <!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--> <!--[endif]--><o></o>
"Spirit the penniless population across the frontier by </pre>
denying it employment... Both the process of expropriation </pre>
and the removal of the poor must be carried out discreetly </pre>
and circumspectly." Theodore Herzl, founder of the World </pre>
Zionist Organization, speaking of the Arabs of Palestine,</pre>
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"We should prepare to go over to the offensive. Our aim is </pre>
to smash Lebanon, Trans-Jordan, and Syria. The weak point </pre>
is Lebanon, for the Moslem regime is artificial and easy </pre>
for us to undermine. We shall establish a Christian state </pre>
there, and then we will smash the Arab Legion, eliminate </pre>
Trans-Jordan; Syria will fall to us. We then bomb and move </pre>
on and take Port Said, Alexandria and Sinai." David Ben-</pre>
Gurion, May 1948, to the General Staff. From Ben-Gurion, A </pre>
Biography, by Michael Ben-Zohar, Delacorte, New York 1978.</pre> "How can we return the occupied territories? There <o></o>
is nobody to return them to." ? Golda Meir, March <o></o>
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"May the Holy Name visit retribution on the Arabs' heads, </pre>
and cause their seed to be lost, and annihilate them, and </pre>
cause them to be vanquished and cause them to be cast from </pre>
the world. It is forbidden to be merciful to them, you must </pre>
give them missiles, with relish - annihilate them. Evil</pre>
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ones, damnable ones." -- Ultra-Orthodox Shas Party </pre>
spiritual leader Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, in a sermon discussing </pre>
Passover and God's wrath at Israel's enemies, 8 April 2001. </pre>
Some months ago he distinguished himself by describing </pre>
Arabs as "snakes" whom "God regrets having created".</pre>
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"[The Palestinians] are beasts walking on two legs." </pre>
Menachem Begin, speech to the Knesset, quoted in Amnon</pre>
Kapeliouk, 'Begin and the "Beasts"', New Statesman, 25 June</pre>
1982 </pre>
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"We must use terror, assassination, intimidation, land </pre>
confiscation, and the cutting of all social services to rid </pre>
the Galilee of its Arab population." Israel Koenig, "The </pre>
Koenig Memorandum"</pre>
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Rabin's description of the conquest of Lydda, after the </pre>
completion of Plan Dalet. "We shall reduce the Arab </pre>
population to a community of woodcutters and waiters" Uri </pre>
Lubrani, PM Ben-Gurion's special adviser on Arab Affairs,</pre>
1960. From "The Arabs in Israel" by Sabri Jiryas.</pre> <!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--> <!--[endif]--><o></o>
"I am a black South African, and if I were to <o></o>
change the names, a description of what is <o></o>
happening in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank could <o></o>
describe events in South Africa." ? Archbishop <o></o>
Desmond Tutu, during Christmas visit to Jerusalem, <o></o>
December 25, 1989 (Ha'aretz; cited in Palestine <o></o>
Perspectives, January/February 1990)
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