By Finian Cunningham. Quotes by Debbie Menon included.
Axis of Logic
Monday, Nov 25, 2013
This video and song pays tribute to the incredible resilience and steadfastness of the Palestinians in their struggle for justice and end to apartheid and occupation of their homeland.
Finian Cunningham, political analyst, singer-songwriter, originally from Belfast Ireland, featuring Tubby Corrway on lead guitar and Colin Merrill on drums.
Debbie Menon wrote:
Yisrael
when you decided to call Palestinians Southern Syrians, you have no
right to expect a polite response. I understand your fear of your own
delegitimization. It must be a frightening way to live! Now listen to
the Fathers and Mothers of Israel, hear it from the horse's mouth, David Ben Gurion
Prime Minister of Israel, 1949 - 1954, 1955 – 1963:
"We must expel Arabs and take their places."
David Ben Gurion, 1937,Ben Gurion
and the Palestine Arabs, Oxford
University Press, 1985. |
"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, May 1948,
to the General Staff. From Ben-Gurion,
A Biography, by Michael Ben-Zohar,
Delacorte, New York
1978. |
"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?"
-- Quoted by Nahum Goldmann in Le Paraddoxe Juif
(The Jewish Paradox), pp. 121-122. |
"Jewish
villages were built in the place of Arab villages. You do not even
know the names of these Arab villages, and I do not blame you because
geography books no longer exist. Not only do the books not exist, the
Arab villages are not there either. Nahlal arose in the place of
Mahlul; Kibbutz Gvat in the place of Jibta; Kibbutz Sarid in the place
of Huneifis; and Kefar Yehushua in the place of Tal al-Shuman. There is
not a single place built in this country that did not have a former
Arab population."
-- David Ben Gurion, quoted in The Jewish Paradox, by
Nahum Goldmann, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1978, p.99. |
"Let
us not ignore the truth among ourselves ... politically we are the
aggressors and they defend themselves... The country is theirs, because
they inhabit it, whereas we want to come here and settle down, and in
their view we want to take away from them their country."
--David Ben
Gurion, quoted on pp 91-2 of Chomsky's
Fateful Triangle, which appears
in Simha Flapan's
"Zionism and the Palestinians pp 141-2
citing a 1938
speech. |
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