68 Israeli Dehumanization Quotes

1. Let a thousand children of the enemy cry and not one of ours.

2. We need to occupy the complete land of Israel. There are no innocent people in Gaza. Everybody who has refused to leave the north is a collaborator.

3. It's almost worthless to talk about Lebanon because there is no such state as Lebanon. It is a forward operating base of the Revolutionary Guard Corps that has 4 million people living on it who call themselves 'Lebanese' and pretend they live in a country.

4. Israel reportedly okayed a temporary truce in Gaza to vaccinate the population against polio. If this is true then it's a total betrayal of the Israeli people and the hostages in Gaza by the Israeli government. Unforgivable. You give the enemy nothing for free. Nothing!

5. I think we should've gone into Rafah yesterday ... There are no uninvolved [civilians] there. You have to go in and kill and kill and kill ... We have to kill them before they kill us.

6. On the first day or two we should have killed 100,000 Gazans ... Maybe a few there are human beings. 90-something percent are terrorists and involved. Not uninvolved. There’s no such thing as uninvolved [civilians].

7. These people there [in Gaza] deserve death. A hard death, an agonizing death. And instead we see them enjoying on the beach, having fun... There are no innocent people there in the Gaza Strip... They are now enjoying on the beach, instead of starving, being jerked around, being severely tormented and hiding from shelling... We should have seen a lot more revenge, a lot more rivers of Gazans' blood

8. The tens of thousands of welcomers who were waiting in Gaza for their heroes, who brought with them the "loot" from Nir Oz in the form of the Israeli abductees, crowds who abused and humiliated the abductees, whom some define as "uninvolved." Each and every one of these many thousands is a terrorist for all intents and purposes. His blood will be on his head and the pursuit of him will be until his last day in prison or in the grave, as it is written: "Burn the memory of Amalek under the sky, you will not forget!"

9. These [men rounded up en masse in Gaza] are not innocent citizens, these are not uninvolved, for me these are not human beings at all... These are barbaric terrorists whose place is in hell and you have to make sure that they are eliminated one by one!

10. There are 2 million Nazis in Gaza who want to slaughter, rape and murder every Jew. If a local population rules there it will be a terrorist organization.

11. I received great news. Three sons, two grandchildren of Ismail Haniya were eliminated in an airstrike, those you can hear above. Ismail, Eid Mubarak. You're next.

12. Medical and nursing staff work in this impossible place. Dedicated nurses and conscience-imbued doctors understand that "In a place where there are no men, strive to be a man," according to a senior nurse there.

13. There are no civilians in this war.

14. Why do you think it is immoral to take land from someone who wants to kill me? Why is it immoral to take my land, which my ancestors lived there, which I've even given up, to someone who slaughters, rapes, and murders me? What is more immoral than that?

15. UNRWA is Hamas.

16. I'm a little sick & tired of Ramadan … a murderous holiday … and therefore, the solution at this stage is a lot of forces, a lot of strength & little consideration.

17. Today it was proven that the transfer of humanitarian aid to Gaza is not only madness while our abductees are being held in the Strip under substandard conditions, but also endangers the IDF soldiers. This is another clear reason why we must stop transferring this aid, which is in fact aid to harm the IDF soldiers and oxygen to Hamas.

18. In Gaza, everyone is involved. Everyone voted Hamas. Anyone over the age of four is a Hamas supporter.

19. It is better to burn down buildings rather than have soldiers harmed. There are no innocents there ... One hundred thousand remain [in the north of Gaza]. I have no mercy for those who are still there. We need to eliminate them.

20. There are 2 million Nazis in Gaza.

21. Every school, every Mosque, every second house has access to tunnels. Do you have another solution [other than destroying all of Gaza]?

22. We’re facing monsters, monsters who murdered children in front of their parents ... This is a battle not only of Israel against these barbarians, it’s a battle of civilization against barbarism.

23. I saw the report [of IDF snipers shooting at a church] this morning. There are no churches in Gaza, so I'm not sure where the report is talking about. Unfortunately there are no Christians because they were driven out by Hamas ... I don't know what happened, I don't know who was attacked, I didn't see the report.

24. There are no uninvolved, neither in Khan Yunis nor in Saja'iya. They are all deserving of death. This must be the working assumption. Bombard without mercy from the air! Ground maneuvers only after flattening buildings. Every Gazan who did not heed the IDF's request to leave is a terrorist assistant. And if [President] Biden or any other kind-hearted person has a problem with this working assumption, he is welcome to enter Gaza himself.

25. If it were up to me, I would have dispatched D-9 bulldozers and put them behind the mounds of dirt and would have given the order to cover all these hundreds of ants, while they're still alive. [...] They aren't human beings and not human animals. They're subhuman and that's how they should be treated. [...] Eradicate the memory of Amalek, and never forget.

26. Bombard from the air without mercy!! Enough with having mercy on the cruel at such painful costs. Enough with having mercy on 'uninvolved' Gazans. There are no uninvolved. Every Gazan who remains in a place of combat is an assistant to a terrorist organization. Enough! Change tactics. Destroy every place where there are terrorists and terrorist assistants. From the air!! Do not risk soldiers' lives if it is possible to bombard from the air!

27. Not to write how ugly the architecture in Gaza is and it's good that it was destroyed and it's a shame they don't do the same to Netanya; Not to write how ugly the architecture in Gaza is and it's good that it was destroyed and it's a shame they don't do the same to Netanya; Not to write how ugly the architecture in Gaza is and it's good that it was destroyed and it's a shame they don't do the same to Netanya.

28. There's no such thing as uninvolved (civilians) in Gaza.

29. Who's left in Gaza? Are there citizens? There are only tunnels, Hamas, and accursed terrorists who murdered children and are holding children hostage. We have to crush Gaza, Gaza is Hamas.

30. No electricity, no food, no water, no gas. It's all closed. We are fighting animals and are acting accordingly.

31. [T]his is the war between the sons of light and the sons of darkness. We will not let up on our mission until the light overcomes the darkness — the good will defeat the extreme evil that threatens us and the entire world.

32. What does it mean to harm all the population? There are no innocents! That's exactly it. You're saying now 'population'! There is no population! There are two and a half million terrorist- therefore, warning before bombing is meaningless. Warning has to be for innocents only and since there's no innocent, so, there's no problem. When I said 'they are all terrorists [Interviewer: "What does it mean? Kill everybody?"] This is the perception, that there is something defined in times of war called 'The hour of grace.'

33. I would like to say that we, in Israel, at least the population, are not interested in all this rational Palestinian talk. For us, there is one purpose: to destroy Gaza, to destroy this absolute evil. To destroy this. There is no chance that after the holocaust, Jewish people will live similar experiences as they [experienced] 80 years ago.

34. There are no innocents in Gaza. There are no ordinary citizens in Gaza. Every adult was trained to kill. Every woman is a monster. Every boy aspires to be a martyr Every baby will grow up to be a terrorist. wipe out, kill, destroy, annihilate.

35. The children in Gaza- the children in Gaza have brought this upon themselves. We are a people who live in peace, a people who seek life.

36. Erase the memory of them. Erase them, their families, mothers and children. These animals can no longer live. Every Jew with a weapon should go out and kill them. If you have an Arab neighbor don’t wait. Go to his home and shoot him.

37. It's an entire nation out there that is responsible. It's not true, this rhetoric about civilians not aware, not involved. It's absolutely not true.

38. Are you seriously keep on asking me about Palestinian civilians? What's wrong with you? Have you not seen what happened? We're fighting Nazis!

39. I want a big revenge [...] I really hope that our revenge, that of the State of Israel, on the cruel enemy - will be a very big revenge. I don't call them human animals because that would be insulting to animals.

40. Hamas became ISIS and the citizens of Gaza are celebrating instead of being horrified. Human animals are dealt with accordingly. Israel has imposed a total blockade on Gaza, no electricity, no water, just damage. You wanted hell, you will get hell.

41. Those are animals, they have no right to exist. I am not debating the way it will happen, but they need to be exterminated.

42. Gaza is the city of evil [...] We will turn all the places where Hamas is organized and hiding into cities of ruins. I say to the residents of Gaza - get out of there now. We will act everywhere and with all our strength.

43. All of Gaza’s infrastructures must be destroyed to its foundation and their electricity cut off immediately. The war is not against Hamas but against the state of Gaza.

44. As of right now, the occupation is permanent. And as of right now I would like to continue to apply Israeli sovereignty over all the areas that I can ... It is our right to continue to apply sovereignty on all land that legally belongs to Israel, and to settle this land in order to have the safest borders and to stop giving in to all kinds of nations that never existed and suddenly popped up.

45. 'Innocent Palestinian' is an oxymoron.

46. I'm asked if we will forever live by the sword — yes.

47. Hitler didn't want to exterminate the Jews at the time, he wanted to expel the Jews. And Hajj Amin al-Husseini went to Hitler and said, 'If you expel them, they will all come here.' 'So what should I do with them,' [Hitler] asked. He said, 'Burn them.'

48. All civilian casualties are unintended by us, but actually intended by Hamas. They want to pile up as many civilian dead as they can because, somebody said, and it's gruesome, they use telegenically dead Palestinians for their cause. The more dead the better.

49. The Palestinian people has declared war on us, and we must respond with war. Not an operation, not a slow-moving one, not low-intensity, not controlled escalation, no destruction of terror infrastructure, no targeted killings. Enough with the oblique references. This is a war. Words have meanings. This is a war. It is not a war against terror, and not a war against extremists, and not even a war against the Palestinian Authority. These too are forms of avoiding reality. This is a war between two people. Who is the enemy? The Palestinian people. Why? Ask them, they started.

50. I don’t know why it’s so hard for us to define reality with the simple words that language puts at our disposal. Why do we have to make up a new name for the war every other week, just to avoid calling it by its name. What’s so horrifying about understanding that the entire Palestinian people is the enemy? Every war is between two peoples, and in every war the people who started the war, that whole people, is the enemy. A declaration of war is not a war crime. Responding with war certainly is not. Nor is the use of the word 'war', nor a clear definition who the enemy is. Au contraire: the morality of war (yes, there is such a thing) is founded on the assumption that there are wars in this world, and that war is not the normal state of things, and that in wars the enemy is usually an entire people, including its elderly and its women, its cities and its villages, its property and its infrastructure.

51. I've killed lots of Arabs in my life and there's no problem with that.

52. I didn't recommend that we kill Palestinians. I said we'll have to kill them. I was right about mounting demographic pressures.

53. When 2.5 million people live in a closed-off Gaza, it's going to be a human catastrophe. Those people will become even bigger animals than they are today, with the aid of an insane fundamentalist Islam. The pressure at the border will be awful. It's going to be a terrible war. So, if we want to remain alive, we will have to kill and kill and kill. All day, every day.

54. Something like a cage has to be built for them [Palestinians]. I know that sounds terrible. It is really cruel. But there is no choice. There is a wild animal there that has to be locked up in one way or another.

55. The barbarians who want to take our lives [are like serial killers]. The people the Palestinian society sends to carry out the terrorist attacks, and in some way the Palestinian society itself as well. At the moment, that society is in the state of being a serial killer. It is a very sick society. It should be treated the way we treat individuals who are serial killers.

56. I wish I could wake up one day and find that Gaza has sunk into the sea.

57. When we have settled the land … all the Arabs will be able to do about it will be to scurry around like drugged roaches in a bottle.

58. There was no such thing as Palestinians

59. How can we return the occupied territories? There is nobody to return them to.

60. We view them like donkeys. They don't care. They accept it with love.

61. It [democracy in Palestine] does not take into consideration the superiority of the Jews over the Arabs, meaning the fundamental qualitative difference between Jews and Arabs.

62. I am very puzzled by the constant concern which the world ... is showing for the Palestinian people and is actually for these horrible inhuman animals.

63. The problem is not the Palestinian authority, the problem is the Palestinian people.

64. We can never forgive them for forcing us to kill their children.

65. Liars, whiners, disgusting stinky losers. They walk with flip-flops! Repulsive. Really, repulsive people. There's nothing human about it. But it's amazing how the world is able not to see it.

66. This sweeping compassion, like "we're all human beings?" No! No! People are the fruit of education they are raised on. And if they raise you like a vermin, that's what you'll become: a gutter vermin. Disgusting rapist. A human that is filth, son of filth.

67. I'm a Palestinian. From `21 until `48, I carried a Palestinian passport.

68. I think you are all totally ignorant in your Ramat Yochanan [a training base of the Haganah] since you do not even know the elementary use of bayonets when attacking dirty Arabs: how can you put your left foot in front!

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