Israel gives Palestinians 5 minutes to leave their homes with no
prior warning before bulldozing homes on Palestinian land, often
with soldiers shooting at them or physically abusing them, and
that's okay.

Those living in illegal settlements built on land stolen from the
Palestinians equate their eviction to what the Nazis did to the
Jews in Germany and Poland, yet their occupation of Palestinian
land is a mirror of Nazi Germany's policy of "Lebensraum". They
say it's "not okay".

They should consider themselves lucky that they'll be removed
peacefully and with no damage to their possessions or people.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2005/04/21/international/i005334D12.DTL


"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."
- Ariel Sharon

"There is no such thing as a Palestinian people... It is not as
if we came and threw them out and took their country. They
didn't exist."
- Golda Meir

"How can we return the occupied territories? There is nobody to
return them to."
- Golda Meir

"We must use terror, assassination, intimidation, land
confiscation, and the cutting of all social services to rid
the Galilee of its Arab population."
- David Ben-Gurion

"We walked outside, Ben-Gurion accompanying us. Allon repeated
his question, What is to be done with the Palestinian
population?' Ben-Gurion waved his hand in a gesture which
said 'Drive them out!"
- Yitzhak Rabin

"[Israel will] create in the course of the next 10 or 20 years
conditions which would attract natural and voluntary migration
of the refugees from the Gaza Strip and the west Bank to
Jordan. To achieve this we have to come to agreement with
King Hussein and not with Yasser Arafat."
- Yitzhak Rabin

And the most offensive of all:

"Israel may have the right to put others on trial, but
certainly no one has the right to put the Jewish people and
the State of Israel on trial."
- Ariel Sharon

Israeli settlements and the "security wall": ethnic cleansing by
another name.


Bob Dog