On September 20 2024 10:45 Nebuchad wrote:So I did the work (not that it's going to change anything). Mostly googled "name" + "Palestine"/"Gaza" + "Quotes"
Here's the Netanyahu government according to wiki, hopefully I didn't forget anyone:
Amichai Chikli
Amihai Eliyahu
Aryeh Deri
Avi Dichter
Benjamin Netanyahu
Bezalel Smotrich
Dudi Amsalem
Eli Cohen
Galit Distel-Atbaryan
Gila Gamliel
Haim Biton
Haim Katz
Idit Silman
Israel Katz
Itamar Ben-Gvir
May Golan
Meir Porush
Michael Malchieli
Miki Zohar
Miri Regev
Moshe Arbel
Nir Barkat
Ofir Sofer
Orit Strook
Ron Dermer
Shlomo Karhi
Uriel Buso
Ya'akov Margi
Yariv Levin
Yifat Shasha-Biton
Yitzhak Goldknopf
Yitzhak Wasserlauf
Yoav Ben-Tzur
Yoav Gallant
Yoav Kisch
First, here are the people who I believe aren't on this side, I don't want to have it look like I buried them at the end:
Aryeh Deri
Haim Biton
Meir Porush
Michael Malchieli
Moshe Arbel
Uriel Buso
Ya'akov Margi
Yifat Shasha-Biton
Yoav Ben-Tzur
David "Dudi" Amsalem doesn't seem like the kind of guy who would be opposed to ethnic cleansing but I didn't find quotes so he's there too.
I'm going to have to isolate Miri Regev there because somehow I'm unable to find ethnic cleansing quotes from her, apparently her problem is more Africans lol: "Heaven forbid, I did not talk about human beings and I did not compare them to human beings." She is also quoted as saying she's "happy to be a fascist". It doesn't seem that she comments much on Palestinians, or these quotes didn't make it to english.
I assume you don't need me to go about Benny, Smotrich or Ben Gvir.
First, this
article that is unfortunately paywalled, "Netanyahu's Ministers at Far-right Conference Endorse Expulsion of Palestinians". I found the text version on Reddit, the people who were there were: "Bezalel Smotrich and Orit Strock (Religious Zionism), Itamar Ben-Gvir, Amichai Eliyahu and Yitzhak Wasserlauf (Otzma Yehudit), Haim Katz, Amichai Chikli, Shlomo Karhi (Likud) and many others."
Later found the
wiki article for this that adds Idit Silman, Yitzhak Goldknopf and May Golan. I'm adding Silman and Goldknopf based on that even though I haven't found very specific quotes (Silman quoting some racist shit by Golda Meir, for example, doesn't seem to qualify as enough but in conjonction with her presence at the conference I'll allow it).
Quotes explicitly advocating for ethnic cleansing:
Amichai Chikli:
On a podcast in 2021 Chikli dismissed the Palestinian identity and called for it to be eliminated by saying: “It is all built on opposition to Zionism. That is the national identity of Palestinians. There is no Palestinian national identity with a positive content of its own. Therefore we won’t be rid of this conflict until this national identity ceases to be.”
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Amihai Eliyahu:
Israeli Heritage Minister Amichai Eliyahu urged that Israel “must find ways for Gazans that are more painful than death” to defeat them and break their morale, as the US did with Japan.
Eliyahu expressed, in statements to Israeli radio station 103 FM, that Israel must decide the battle by breaking the morale of the Palestinians in Gaza and causing them pain involving their land, destroying homes, breaking their national dream and voluntary immigration. When the presenter interrupted him, saying this was not possible, Eliyahu replied that it was, similar to what happened during the Arab Spring when large numbers of the region’s population immigrated to Germany.
According to the Israeli minister’s statements, the residents of Gaza should be encouraged to immigrate to other countries as part of revenge measures against them after the events of Operation Al-Aqsa flood.
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Avi Dichter:
Agriculture Minister Avi Dichter told Israeli Channel 12 over the weekend that the war would be “Gaza’s Nakba,” using the Arabic word for “catastrophe” that many use to describe the 1948 displacement of roughly 700,000 Palestinians who were expelled from their land in what became Israel.
“We are now rolling out the Gaza Nakba,” Dichter, a member of the right-wing Likud party, said Saturday, in comments widely reported by Israeli media. “From an operational point of view, there is no way to wage a war — as the Israeli army seeks to do in Gaza — with masses between the tanks and the soldiers,” he said. Pressed on his use of the word “Nakba” to describe the situation in Gaza, he said again: “Gaza Nakba 2023. That’s how it’ll end.”
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Eli Cohen:
Foreign Minister Eli Cohen tells Army Radio, “At the end of this war, not only will Hamas no longer be in Gaza, but the territory of Gaza will also decrease.”
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Galit Distel-Atbaryan:
Israel-Palestine war: Likud MP calls for Gaza to be 'erased from the face of the earth'
Galit Distel Atbaryan, who was recently public diplomacy minister, says on Facebook a 'vengeful and vicious' Israeli army is needed to wipe out the Palestinian enclave
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Gila Gamliel:
"The Gaza problem is not just our problem. The world should support humanitarian emigration, because that’s the only solution I know."
"Instead of funneling money to rebuild Gaza or to the failed UNRWA, the international community can assist in the costs of resettlement, helping the people of Gaza build new lives in their new host countries. Gaza has long been thought of as a problem without an answer."
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Haim Katz:
Haim Katz, Israeli cabinet minister from Netanyahu’s Likud party, exposed Israel's endgame: “Today, we have the opportunity to rebuild and expand the land of Israel. This is our final opportunity.”
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Israel Katz:
“Yesterday I warned the Arab students, who are flying Palestine flags at universities: Remember 48. Remember our independence war and your Nakba, don’t stretch the rope too much. […] If you don’t calm down, we’ll teach you a lesson that won’t be forgotten”
"Humanitarian aid to Gaza? No electric switch will be turned on, no water tap will be opened, and no fuel truck will enter until the Israeli abductees are returned home," he said in a statement.
On Friday, the day Israel made the evacuation order, Katz said his country will destroy Hamas and that Gazan civilians were ordered to leave immediately.
"We will win. They will not receive a drop of water or a single battery until they leave the world," he added.
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Orit Strook: “There is no such thing as a Palestinian people,” Strook said in a video on her X account of her speech during a Knesset session.
“There will never be a Palestinian state in the land of Israel,” she said. "Every cultured person in the world knows that this land is ours, for the Israeli people and only for us.”
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Ron Dermer:
Not quoted but found this in the Intercept: "Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has tasked his top adviser, Ron Dermer, the minister of strategic affairs, with designing plans to “thin” the Palestinian population in the Gaza Strip “to a minimum,” according to a bombshell new report in an Israeli newspaper founded by the late Republican billionaire Sheldon Adelson.
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Shlomo Karhi:
"Likud minister Shlomo Karhi clarified that the transfer of the Palestinians of Gaza, in his words "voluntary emigration," is the "only way to exact a heavy price from the Nazis of Hamas and ensure security." Karhi explained "voluntary" as follows: "'Voluntary' is at times a situation you impose [on someone] until they give their consent."" (from the paywalled Haaretz article mentioned earlier)
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Yariv Levin:
"Justice Minister Yariv Levin stating that all of the land of Israel will belong only to Jews."
https://x.com/KnessetT/status/1681679848090005504---
Yitzhak Wasserlauf:
Yitzhak Wasserlauf, an Israeli cabinet official, stated, "A total victory means a return to settle" the Gaza Strip.
More generic genocidal quotes
May Golan: "I am personally proud of the ruins of Gaza, and that every baby, even 80 years from now, will tell their grandchildren what the Jews did"
"I don't care about Gaza. I literally don't care at all. They can go out and swim in the sea. I want
to see dead bodies of terrorists around gaza."
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Miki Zohar:
Another elected official from the ruling coalition, Likud’s Miki Zohar, did not hesitate to state that the Arabs have a problem that has no solution – they are not Jews and therefore their fate in this land cannot be the same as that of the Jews.
"I say clearly to anyone still stuck in October 6: We will never lend a hand to the creation of a Palestinian state," Israeli Culture Minister Miki Zohar said on social media last month. "This is our pledge to the sacred murder victims."
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Nir Barkat
During a contentious “Morning Joe” interview on Thursday, Israeli Economic Minister Nir Barkat used air quotes as he spoke of “the innocent people in Gaza,” suggesting he does not believe there are innocent people in the besieged Gaza Strip.
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Ofir Sofer (weakish quote):
"A Palestinian state will not be established."
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Yoav Gallant:
"We will eliminate everything. If it doesn't take one day, it will take a week, it will take weeks, or even months, we will reach all places. There is no way that our brothers, our children, our parents will be killed and we won't react because we are a state, — they will regret it"
"Soon they'll realize the IDF's power, even in the southern part [of Gaza]" he added: ""Those who were on the western side
of Gaza City understand this well and have already met the deadly power of the IDF, those who are on the eastern side
understand this tonight and will understand it in the coming days, and those who are in the south of the Gaza Strip will also
understand this soon."
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Yoav Kisch:
"Those are animals, they have no right to exist. I am not debating they way it will happen, but they need to be exterminated," argued Yoav Kisch, Israeli Minister of Education.
"Every Jew knows the saying 'Remember what Amalek did unto thee by the way […]' and that is
what [H*] did and their judgement shall be to destroy them, full stop. I relate to them like
Amalek." The patriots on channel 14 episode posted October 9 2023 [27:20 – 27:34 ]"
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Here's some dude who isn't a minister but it took me so fucking long to do this and at the end of this I was so annoyed by my complete awareness that nobody is going to care about it that I couldn't be fucked to not quote this: "One of them is by Nissim Vaturi, member of the Israeli Parliament, where he is Deputy Speaker. Although, according to Israeli TV Channel 12, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has in recent days called on politicians to
choose “their words carefully” so as not to give ammunition ahead of the hearing in The Hague, Vaturi on Wednesday reaffirmed his calls to “wipe Gaza off the face of the earth,” and added: “Gaza must be burned.” “I stand behind my words... It is better to burn down buildings rather than have [Israeli] soldiers harmed. There are no innocents there,” he said in a radio interview before calling for the “elimination” of the estimated 100,000 Palestinians left in northern Gaza. “I have no mercy for those who are still there. We need to eliminate them,” added Vaturi, who belongs to Likud, the right-wing party led by Netanyahu."
Way too long didn't read: depending on how you're counting, somewhere between 9 and 14 out of 37 don't support ethnic cleansing based on me googling for 3 minutes about each of them.