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<b>[[Israel]]i racism against [[Palestinian]]s in the [[20th century|20th]] and [[21st century]]</b>

Within Israel there are people whoA small minority of Israeli extremists hold racist viewpoints 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]].


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'''Israeli religious leaders'''

Some Israeli religious leader have described Palestinians as subhumanA handful of extremists Israeli rabbis have described Palestinians as subhuman. None of these people have any role in the major Jewish denominations. Every one of the statements below has been publicly condemned by rabbis and spokespeople from Orthodox Judaism, Conservative Judaism and Reform Judaism.

"One million Arabs are not worth a Jewish fingernail." -- Rabbi Yaacov Perrin, Feb. 27, 1994 [Source: N.Y. Times, Feb. 28, 1994, p. 1]

"It is forbidden to be merciful to them, you must give them missiles, with relish — annihilate them. Evil ones, damnable ones," --Said by Rabbi Ovadia Yosef about the Palestinian people [Source: The Times, UK - 4/10/01]
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'''Israeli political leaders'''

Some Israeli leaders have repeatedly made racist statements about Palestinians  Rabbi Ovadia Yosef is rejected as a leader by the vast majority of the Jewish community. Modern Orthodox Jews consider him an extremist. Reform and Conservative Jews often view him as a fanatic. The vast majority of the Israeli public rejects all of his views, and Israeli newspapers often portary Yosef as mentally unstable. His views are not representative of the Israeli public.

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. The Jerusalem Post, May 10, 2001

"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

"[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." " Isreali Prime Minister (at the time) in a speech to Jewish settlers New York Times April 1, 1988 

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, "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. 

"We should prepare to go over to the offensive. Our aim is to smash Lebanon, Trans-Jordan, and Syria." David Ben-Gurion, May 1948, to the General Staff. From Ben-Gurion, A Biography, by Michael Ben-Zohar, Delacorte, New York 1978.

"How can we return the occupied territories? There is nobody to return them to." Golda Meir, March 8, 1969. 
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"There was no such thing as Palestinians, they never existed." Golda Maier Israeli Prime Minister June 15, 1969
David Ben Gurion (the first Israeli Prime Minister): "If I were an Arab leader, I would never sign an agreement with Israel. It is normal; we have taken their country." 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" 

'''Israeli Military Leaders'''

One Israeli military leaders have claimed that Palestinian deserve to live subjugated as slaves.
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once claimed that "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.

"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. 

"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. 
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"Spirit the penniless population across the frontier by denying it employment... Both the process of expropriation and the removal of the poor must be carried out discreetly and circumspectly." Theodore Herzl, founder of the World Zionist Organization, speaking of the Arabs of Palestine,Complete Diaries, June 12, 1895 entry.