"Everybody has to move, run and grab as many hilltops as they can to enlarge the settlements because everything we take now will stay ours. Everything we don't grab will go to them."
[Ariel Sharon, Israeli Foreign Minister, addressing militants from the extreme right-wing Tsomet Party - Agence France Presse, 15 Nov 1998]
"The thesis that the danger of genocide was hanging over us in June 1967 and that Israel was fighting for its physical existence is only bluff, which was born and developed after the war."
[Israeli General Matityahu Peled, Ha'aretz, 19 March 1972]
"We must use terror, assassination, intimidation, land confiscation, and the cutting of all social services to rid the Galilee of its Arab population."
[Israel Koenig, The Koenig Memorandum]
The U.S.A. has supplied arms, security equipment and training to governments and armed groups that have committed torture, political killings and other human rights abuses in countries around the world.
