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Compare to [[Arabs and anti-Semitism]].

A minority of Israelis hold bigoted 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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"[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." " Isr
eaeli 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, 196(contracted; show full)

:[http://ccarnet.org/platforms/commentary.html Commentary to the Pittsburgh Principles of Reform Judaism]

Also see: [[Anti-Arab]], [[Arabs and anti-Semitism]], [[Anti-Semitism]]