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Israelis and anti-Palestinian racism
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Compare to [[Arabs and anti-Semitism]].

''Some Israelis hold bigoted views about [[Palestinian]] [[Arabs]]. Many view this as an indication of the hostile intentions of [[Israel]], and something that must be taken into account when analyzing the [[Arab-Israeli conflict]]. Some Israelis work to fight racism against Arabs and Muslims, and also to fight [[Muslim]] [[anti-Semitism]].''

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Some Israeli politicians have made critical and rude statements about Palestinians that Palestinians consider to be very offensive.

* "There is a huge gap between us (Jews) and our enemies not just in ability but in morality, culture, sanctity of life, and conscience." -- Israeli president Moshe Katsav. ''Jerusalem Post'', May 10, 2001

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TMaybe the Palestinians are like crocodiles, - the more you give them meat, they want more"...., the more they want" -- Ehud Barak, Prime Minister of Israel at the time - August 28, 2000. Reported in the ''Jerusalem Post'', August 30, 2000 [http://www.jpost.com/Editions/2000/08/30/News/News.11509.html]

* "[The Palestinians are] beasts walking on two legs." -- Menahim Begin, speech to the Knesset, quoted in Amnon Kapeliouk, "Begin and the Beasts". ''New Statesman'', 25 June 1982.

"The Palestinians" would be crushed like grasshoppers ... heads smashed against the boulders and walls." -- Israeli Prime Minister (?) in a speech to Jewish settlers. ''New York Times'', April 1, 1988 

* "We must do everything to ensure they [the Palestinian refugees] never do return" -- [[David Ben-Gurion]], in his diary, [[July 18]] [[1948]]
:::Quoted in Michael Bar Zohar's Ben-Gurion: the Armed Prophet, Prentice-Hall, 1967, p. 157. Israeli politicians hold that it would be demographic suicide for millions of Palestinian Arabs to move into pre-1967 Israel. Some Palestinians hold that such views are offensive. For instance, 

* "There was no such thing as Palestinians, they never existed." Golda Meir Israeli Prime Minister June 15, 1969

* "If I were an Arab leader, I would never sign an agreement with Israel. It is normal; we have taken their country." -- David Ben-Gurion (the first Israeli Prime Minister) Quoted by Nahum Goldmann in ''Le Paraddoxe Juif'' (The Jewish Paradox), pp121.

* "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]]" 
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=== Statements by Israeli Military Leaders ===

* "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. This racist view was publicly repudiated by the Israeli public.

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[http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/muslims/interviews/feisal.html PBS interview with Feisal Abdul Rauf]

[http://asmasociety.org/sermon060602.html A Call to bridge the Abrahamic faiths: Judaism, Christianity and Islam, by Feisal Abdul Rauf]

[http://www.cuii.org/hirabah.htm Khalid Abou El Fadl condemns terrorist attacks as not being true Jihad, and calles them Hirabah, terrorism]