Giora Eiland Quotes

Reservist Major General

8 Quotes by Giora Eiland

1. Slowly, slowly, the northern Strip, including Gaza City... will become some kind of a distant dream (for the Palestinians). Just as they forgot about Ashkelon, they'll forget about this area as well.

2. We need to inform the US that we are stopping aid to Gaza.

3. Israel is not fighting a terrorist organization but against the State of Gaza.

4. Creating a severe humanitarian crisis in Gaza is a necessary means to achieve the goal. Gaza will become a place where no human being can exist.

5. [W]e cut the supply of energy, water and diesel to the Strip ... But it’s not enough. In order to make the siege effective, we have to prevent others from giving assistance to Gaza ... The people should be told that they have two choices: to stay and to starve, or to leave. If Egypt and other countries prefer that these people will perish in Gaza, this is their choice.

6. When you are at war with another country you don't feed them, you don't provide them electricity or gas or water or anything else ... A country can be attacked in a much broader way, to bring the country to the brink of dysfunction. This is the necessary outcome of events [in Gaza].

7. [Gaza already is] a huge concentration camp.

8. The international community warns us of a humanitarian disaster in Gaza and of severe epidemics. We must not shy away from this, as difficult as that may be. After all, severe epidemics in the south of the Gaza Strip will bring victory closer.