Database of Palestine colonization quotes



PALCIT is a database of quotes on the Zionist colonization of Palestine. Quotations do not replace History, but there is no History without quotations. Those in PALCIT come either from recognized historians or from media that have shed light on the news. Their authors are most often people who have played a direct and important role of political power. This choice is intended to give a raw material to understand the ideology that has guided the decisions taken since the birth of Zionism to lead to today's Israel.

The authenticity of the quotations and their sources have been carefully verified.

Authentic quotations are accessible:

  • by searching for exact phrases.
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The quotations may be downloaded at the bottom of the QUOTATION page.

This site is a tribute to all past and present source persons and sites that have provided well-controlled data, especially Palestine Remembered.

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A random quotation...

Quotation from Arthur Ruppin “We are bound in each case. . . to remove the peasants who cultivated the land” — May 30 1930

An important Zionist figure, creator of Brit Shalom, in favor of a bi-national state AND of a transfer of Palestinians to Syria,.
Author : Thematics :
" Land is the most necessary thing for establishing roots in Palestine. Since there are hardly any more arable unsettled lands. . . .we are bound in each case. . . to remove the peasants who cultivated the land. "

Ruppin’s letter to Hans Kohn, quoted by Simha Flapan Zionism and the Palestinians , Croom Helm, 1979, pp 172-73 et 189.

Rachid Khalidi Blaming the Victims (Edward Said and Christopher Hitchens, eds.), Verso, 1988, p. 216 ; Benny Morris Victimes, Histoire revisitée du conflit arabo-sioniste, Complexes, 2003, p.77.

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