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Honest Jews have admitted the horror of what Israeli Jews did — not only to Palestinian refugees — but to Palestinians who were not evicted: "Do we sin only against the refugees? Do we not treat the Arabs who remain as second-class citizens? Did a single Jewish farmer raise his hand in the Parliament in opposition to a law that deprived Arab peasants of their land? ... How lonely, in the city of Jerusalem, sits the Jewish conscience."—Moshe Smilansky ["Zion and the Jewish National Idea" published in the Menorah Journal, Volume XVI, 1958]



The director of the Transfer Committee was Yosef (Joseph) Weitz, who also kept a diary, so we know what he was thinking and doing, in his own words. And his words are chilling:



"It is our right to TRANSFER the Palestinians!"—Transfer Committee director Yosef (Joseph) Weitz [from his published diary in five volumes, located in the Zionist archives in Jerusalem]

"We must work out a secret plan based on the removal of the Arabs ... [and] include it in American political circles."—Weitz [

]

"There is no other way than to TRANSFER the Arabs from here to neighboring countries, all of them."—Weitz [

]

"Not one village, not one [Arab] tribe should be left."—Weitz [ibid]

"If the Arabs leave, the country will become wide and spacious for us [Jews]."—Weitz [ibid]

"Only after this TRANSFER will the country be able to absorb millions of our [Jewish] brothers."—Weitz [ibid]

"The TRANSFER of Arabs from the Jewish state [serves two aims]: to diminish the Arab population and release Arab land to Jews."—Weitz [ibid]



—Ze'ev Jabotinsky, spiritual father of the Likud [

, p. 151]

"Settlement can thus develop under the protection of a force that is not dependent on the local population, behind an IRON WALL which they will be powerless to break down."—Jabotinsky [

, 1923]

"We all [i.e., Zionists of all stripes] demand that there should be an IRON WALL." — Jabotinsky ["The Iron Wall" in

, 4-11-1923]

"And we are all of us, without any exception, demanding day after day that this outside Power [Great Britain], should carry out this task vigorously and with determination." — Jabotinsky [

]

"There is no justice, no law, and no God in heaven, only a single law which decides and supersedes all—[Jewish] settlement [of the land]."—Jabotinsky [

, p. 108]

"Arabs must make room for Jews. If it was possible to transfer the Baltic peoples, it is also possible to TRANSFER the Palestinians."—Jabotinsky [

, p. 29]

"Hitler—odious as he is to us—has given this idea [ethnic cleansing] a good name in the world.—Jabotinsky [

, p. 407]

"If we desire that Israel should become and remain a Jewish State, we must first of all create a Jewish majority [by expelling Arabs.]"—Jabotinsky [

]

"Colonisation carries its own explanation, the only possible explanation, unalterable and as clear as daylight to every ordinary Jew and every ordinary Arab." — Jabotinsky ["The Iron Wall" in

, 4-11-1923]



Jabotinsky's remark about "the only possible explanation" of Zionist colonization being "clear as daylight" to every Jew and Arab is an important observation. What we typically hear from Israel's apologists is that Zionists had "good intentions" and Arabs resisted those "good intentions" out of hatred, and thus Arab resistance was unwarranted. But Jabotinsky was honest about the intentions of Zionists to colonize Palestine. They knew what that meant for Palestinian Arabs, and so did the Arabs. It meant they would suffer what Native Americans suffered at the hands of white settlers. It meant the loss of their land, their homes, their rights, their dignity and their culture. And all those things have happened to Palestinians at the hands of Israeli Jews, so they weren't just dreaming up irrational things to fear. Their fears were well-founded.



Similar pro-expulsion mantras can be heard on the lips of other Zionist leaders ...



"There is no Zionism, colonization, or Jewish state without the EVICTION of the Arabs and the expropriation of their lands."—Prime Minister Ariel Sharon

"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.—Sharon [

, 1998]



"The interests of security demand that we

."—Prime Minister Moshe Sharett [

, p. 28]

"We have forgotten that we have not come to an empty land to inherit it, but we have come to conquer a country from people inhabiting it."—Sharett [

, p. 91]

"TRANSFER [ethnic cleansing] could be the

, the final stage in the development of [Zionist] policy."—Sharett [

, p. 254]

"We are equally determined to explore all possibilities of getting rid, once and for all, of the huge Arab minority."—Sharett

"The most spectacular event in the contemporary history of Palestine, in a way more spectacular than the creation of the Jewish state, is the wholesale evacuation of its [Palestinian] Arab population ... The opportunities opened up by the present reality for a lasting and radical solution of the most vexing problem of the Jewish state [referring to the Palestinians], are so far-reaching, as to take one's breath away. The reversion of the status quo ante is unthinkable."—Sharett [1949,

, p. 29]



"[Land is acquired] by force—that is, by CONQUEST in war, or in other words, by ROBBING land from its owner."—Menachem Ussishkin [

, p. 38]

"If there are other inhabitants there, they must be TRANSFERRED to some other place."—Ussishkin [ibid, p. 141]

"We must take over the land. We have a great and NOBLER ideal than preserving several hundred thousands of [Palestinian] Arabs fellahin [peasants]."—Ussishkin [ibid, p. 141]

The [Palestinian] Arabs do not want us because we want to be the rulers. I will fight for this. I will make sure that we will be the landlords of this land.—Ussishkin [

, p. 51]

"About transferring sixty thousand Arab families ... It is most moral."—Ussishkin [ibid, p. 37]





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