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.

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A random quotation...

Quotation from David Ben Gurion “Among ourselves there can be no debate about the integrity of the Land of Israel” — 1937

In a commentary on the Peel Commission's proposal, reported by Moshe Dayan, recalls that the goal of Zionism is the total colonization of Palestine.
Author : Thematics :
" Among ourselves there can be no debate about the integrity of the Land of Israel, and about our ties and right to the whole of the Land.... 
When a Zionist speaks about the integrity of the Land, this can only mean colonization [hityashvut] by the Jews of the Land in its entirety.
That is to say: from the viewpoint of Zionism the real touchstone is not confined to whom this or that segment of the Land belongs to politically, nor even to the abstract belief in the integrity of the Land. Rather, the aim and touchstone of Zionism is the actual implementation of colonization by the Jews of all areas of the Land of Israel. "

Moshe Dayan, Haaretz, 18/2/1973.
Quoted by Moshe Machover, Israelis and Palestinians: Conflict & resolution, n° 65, Haymarket Books, 2012.

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