"I vow that if I was just an Israeli civilian and I met a Palestinian I would burn him and I would make him suffer before killing him. With one hit I've killed 750 Palestinians (in Rafah, 1956). I wanted to encourage my soldiers by raping Arabic girls as the Palestinian women is a slave for Jews, and we do whatever we want to her and nobody tells us what we shall do but we tell others what they shall do."
[Ariel Sharon - interview with General Ouze Merham, 1956]
"When we have settled the land, all the Arabs will be able to do about it will be to scurry around like drugged cockroaches in a bottle."
[source: Raphael Eitan, Chief of Staff of the Israeli Defence Forces, New York Times, 14 Apr 1983]
"We have the right to demand anything we like from the world. As Jews we do not owe anything to anybody, while the rest of the world owes us a great deal"
[Ariel Sharon, speech to foreign Jewish delegates meeting of Gush Etzion, 1990s]
The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of liethe . It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth becomes the greatest enemy of the State.
