Analysis of Controversial Statements on Israel
Was it said by a Nazi or a Zionist?
Let's find out. "Now we all have one common goal,
erasing them from the face of the earth.
Those who are unable will be replaced." Was it a Nazi or a
Zionist?
It was a Zionist. That was Nissim Vaturi, deputy speaker of the Israeli
Knesset and member of the Foreign Affairs and Security Committee in a social media
post on October 7th, 2023. "They are beasts walking
on two legs."
That was Menahem Begin, former prime minister of Israel,
in a speech to
the Knesset on June 25th, 1982. "Now terror
will be answered with terror."
That was Adolf Hitler on March 28th, 1942.
"The army must find ways more painful than death.
Killing them is not enough."
That was Amihai Ben-Eliezer, Israeli heritage minister.
"We are the people of the light. They are the
people of darkness."
That was Benjamin Netanyahu, prime minister of Israel, on October
25th, 2023. "They must be exterminated, all of
them killed. We will flatten them, turn them to dust,
and the army will cleanse the
area."
That was Danny Newman, Israeli sports commentator
and former member of the Knesset,
during a TV interview on December 13th, 2023.
"The woman is an enemy. The baby is an enemy.
The pregnant woman is an enemy."
That was Eliyahu Yossian, Israeli analyst, during a TV interview on
December 30th, 2023. How are we doing?
How are we doing so far? Let's keep going.
"One of our lives is worth more than ten million of their lives."
That was Yehuda Shimon, Israeli settler leader.
"There should be no doubt in your mind that we are fighting with the oldest
enemies that our people have had for thousands of years."
That was Heinrich Himmler, Nazi leader and one of the main architects of the
Holocaust. "I vow that I'll burn every child
that will be born in this
area. The woman and child is more dangerous than the man because the
child's
existence infers that generations will go on,
but the man causes
limited danger."
That was Ariel Sharon, Israeli general and the future prime minister of Israel,
in
an interview with a general in 1956.
"We need to be eliminating thirty to forty people there every day.
They shouldn't live. They're not even people."
That was Ben-Gvir, Israeli national security minister,
in August
2026. "The old ones will pass. They will bear their
fate, or they will not. They were dust.
Economic and moral dust in a cruel world.
Only the branch of the young shall survive.
They have to accept it."
That was said by Chaim Weizmann, the first president of Israel, and it's
interesting because he wasn't talking about Palestinians.
He was talking about Jewish people, because as they established the Zionist
state, they wanted young and able-bodied people to fight on
behalf of the new state, even if it meant turning away
refugees from the Holocaust, which they did.
They turned away Holocaust refugees, leading to their deaths,
and failed to save others when they had the opportunity.
Well, how did you do? Let me know. And as always, free
Palestine.
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