I reported in this column a statement on Israel by Egyptian Minister of Culture Farouk Hosni, who was targeted by a campaign aimed at blocking his nomination for the post of UNESCO Director General. I commented on his remarks then quoted Israeli sources and Jews condemning Israel. The Egyptian minister's words remain soft and nice in comparison to what the leaders in the organized crime state utter about the Palestinians and Arabs. Today I have a collection of quotes that overlook the Israeli religious parties since they are al-Qaeda under a different name. I will focus today on figures who supposedly constitute the façade of the state which is in fact a settlement hotbed in Palestine. Moshe Katsav, former Israeli President who is accused of raping a female draftee, said, "There is a huge gap between us (Jews) and our enemies not just in ability but in morality, culture, sanctity of life, and conscience.” His words, which remind me of a prostitute speaking of virtue, were published in the May 10, 2001 issue of the Jerusalem Post. I claim that Katsav is Israel. Ehud Barak, the then Israeli Prime Minister, said in the same daily on August 28, 2000, “The Palestinians are like crocodiles, the more you give them meat, they want more." He said those words about the Palestinians whose lands Israel has occupied with its eye on their remaining territories. Menahim Begin, the number one and genuine terrorist in the Middle East, said, "[The Palestinians are] beasts walking on two legs." Begin is the number one Nazi terrorist in the Middle East. He had a hand in every crime committed during his rotten lifetime. His words were published on June 25, 1982 in The New Statesman in an article headlined "Begin and the Beasts" by Amnon Kapeliouk. Yitzhak Shamir, the other terrorist and Nazi par excellence, was quoted by The New York Times on April 1, 1988 as saying, "The Palestinians would be crushed like grasshoppers ... heads smashed against the boulders and walls." On March 8, 1969 Golda Meir said, "How can we return the occupied territories? There is nobody to return them to." And on June 15, 1969 she said, "There was no such thing as Palestinians, they never existed." Golda Meir reminds me of Rahab, the adulteress in the Torah legend on entering Jericho and destroying its fences with horns and yelling. She is a school teacher from Minnesota who came to steal the Palestinians' territories, and then denied their existence while they are around. In fact, what has never existed is Israel, as there is no trace of it in Palestine 61 years after the original occupation. Ariel Sharon, the other war criminal who killed thousands of women and children, said to Shimon Peres, "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." These words were reported on October 3, 2001 on Kol Yisrael radio. They are much stronger than Farouk Hosni's words and caused Israeli apologists, such as French philosopher Bernard-Henri Lévy, to mount a campaign against him. Rafael Eitan, former Chief of Staff of the Israeli Defense Forces and another Jewish Nazi, said, "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." In my opinion, smaller Israel will not survive if the landowners, the Palestinians, do not grant it the deeds of legitimacy. We will see who will ultimately crawl. Before I run out of space, here are other quotes: - "We shall reduce the Arab population to a community of woodcutters and waiters" according to Rabin after the completion of Plan Dalet, as quoted by Uri Lubrani. - "One million Arabs are not worth a Jewish fingernail" according to Rabbi Yaacov Perrin in The New York Times February 27, 1994 issue. - "We must do everything to insure they (the Palestinians) never do return" and "The old will die and the young will forget" as Ben Gurion said in his memoirs on July 18, 1948. I say once more that Israel is an illegitimate settlement hotbed established on Palestinian land. Ben Gurion himself admits that the Jews stole it from its population. Nahum Goldman quotes him in Le Paradoxe Juif as saying literally, "If I were an Arab leader, I would never sign an agreement with Israel… It is true God promised it to us, but how could that interest them? Our God is not theirs. There has been Anti-Semitism, the Nazis, Hitler, Auschwitz, but was that their fault? They see but one thing: we have come and we have stolen their country. Why would they accept that?" This is Israel in the mouth of its leaders, a state of despicable crime, robbery, and racism. Whoever defends it is an accomplice in robbery or murder no matter how much they philosophize. http://www.j-khazen.blogspot.com/