Examples of Hate Speeches and Comments

The Malaysian PM Mahathir said at the OIC Summit 2003: "The Europeans killed 6 million Jews out of 12 million. But today the Jews rule this world by proxy. They get others to fight and die for them."

US President Bush took Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad aside during the economic summit in Bangkok and told Mahathir that what he said was 'wrong and divisive,' " according to White House press secretary Scott McClellan.

According to Mr. McClellan, the President told Mahathir, "It stands squarely against what I believe in" .

Here are sample hate speeches and comments by Israeli/Jewish leaders on Palestinians and Arabs:

1. "There is a huge gap between us (Jews) and our enemies ­not just in ability but in morality, culture, sanctity of life, and conscience. They are our neighbors here, but it seems as if at a distance of a few hundred meters away, there are people who do not belong to our continent, to our world, but actually belong to a different galaxy."
   Israeli president Moshe Katsav. The Jerusalem Post, May 10, 2001
   
   
2. "The Palestinians are like crocodiles, the more you give them meat, they want more"....
   Ehud Barak, Prime Minister of Israel at the time - August 28, 2000. Reported in the Jerusalem Post August 30, 2000
   
   
3. " [The Palestinians are] beasts walking on two legs."
   Menachem Begin, speech to the Knesset, quoted in Amnon Kapeliouk, "Begin and the Beasts". New Statesman, 25 June 1982.
   
   
4. "The Palestinians" would be crushed like grasshoppers ... heads smashed against the boulders and walls."
   Yitzhak Shamir, in a speech to Jewish settlers New York Times April 1, 1988
   
   
5. "When we have settled the land, all the Arabs will be able to do about it will be to scurry around like drugged cockroaches in a bottle."
   Raphael Eitan, Chief of Staff of the Israeli Defence Forces, New York Times, 14 April 1983.
   
   
6. "There was no such thing as Palestinians, they never existed."
   Golda Maier Israeli Prime Minister June 15, 1969
   
   
7. "The thesis that the danger of genocide was hanging over us in June 1967 and that Israel was fighting for its physical existence is only bluff, which was born and developed after the war."
   Israeli General Matityahu Peled, Ha'aretz, 19 March 1972.
   
   
8. Ben Gurion also warned in 1948 : "We must do everything to insure they ( the Palestinians) never do return. The old will die and the young will forget."
   
   
9. "We have to kill all the Palestinians unless they are resigned to live here as slaves."
   Chairman Heilbrun of the Committee for the Re-election of General Shlomo Lahat, the mayor of Tel Aviv, October 1983.
   
   
10. "Every time we do something you tell me America will do this and will do that . . . I want to tell you something very clear: Don't worry about American pressure on Israel. We, the Jewish people, control America, and the Americans know it." -
    Israeli Prime Minister, Ariel Sharon, October 3, 2001, to Shimon Peres, as reported on Kol Yisrael radio.
    
    
11. "We declare openly that the Arabs have no right to settle on even one centimeter of Eretz Israel... 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 Staff of the Israeli Defense Forces - Gad Becker, Yediot Ahronot 13 April 1983, New York Times 14 April 1983.
    
    
12. "We must do everything to ensure they [the Palestinian refugees] never do return"
    David Ben-Gurion, in his diary, 18 July 1948, quoted in Michael Bar Zohar's Ben-Gurion: the Armed Prophet, Prentice-Hall, 1967, p. 157.
    
    
13. "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, "The Koenig Memorandum"
    
    
14. "Jewish villages were built in the place of Arab villages. You do not even know the names of these Arab villages, and I do not blame you because geography books no longer exist. Not only do the books not exist, the Arab villages are not there either. Nahlal arose in the place of Mahlul; Kibbutz Gvat in the place of Jibta; Kibbutz Sarid in the place of Huneifis; and Kefar Yehushua in the place of Tal al-Shuman. There is not a single place built in this country that did not have a former Arab population."
    Moshe Dayan, address to the Technion, Haifa, reported in Haaretz, April 4, 1969.
    
    
15. Yitzhak Rabin's description of the conquest of Lydda, after the completion of Plan Dalet. "We shall reduce the Arab population to a community of woodcutters and waiters"
    Uri Lubrani, PM Ben-Gurion's special adviser on Arab Affairs, 1960. From "The Arabs in Israel" by Sabri Jiryas.
    
    
16. "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."
    Ariel Sharon, Israeli Foreign Minister, addressing a meeting of militants from the extreme right-wing Tsomet Party, Agence France Presse, November 15, 1998.
    
    
17. "It is the duty of Israeli leaders to explain to public opinion, clearly and courageously, a certain number of facts that are forgotten with time. The first of these is that there is no Zionism,colonialization or Jewish State without the eviction of the Arabs and the expropriation of their lands."
    Yoram Bar Porath, Yediot Aahronot, of 14 July 1972.
    
    
18. "One million Arabs are not worth a Jewish fingernail."
    Rabbi Yaacov Perrin, Feb. 27, 1994 [Source: N.Y. Times, Feb. 28, 1994, p. 1]

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