| | Written by rather a peace activst MK in 1976<ref>Aryeh L. Eliav, ''The Ladder of Israel: A Dream and Its Breakdown; A Socio-Political Analysis of Israel'' [Heb.], Zmora-Bitan-Modan, 1976, pp. 41-44 [https://books.google.com/books?id=EMxLAAAAMAAJ&q=%22%D7%A8%D7%95%D7%91%20%D7%94%D7%A2%D7%A8%D7%91%D7%99%D7%9D%22%20%D7%A0%D7%90%D7%A6%D7%99%D7%9D%22].</ref>: | | Written by rather a peace activst MK in 1976<ref>Aryeh L. Eliav, ''The Ladder of Israel: A Dream and Its Breakdown; A Socio-Political Analysis of Israel'' [Heb.], Zmora-Bitan-Modan, 1976, pp. 41-44 [https://books.google.com/books?id=EMxLAAAAMAAJ&q=%22%D7%A8%D7%95%D7%91%20%D7%94%D7%A2%D7%A8%D7%91%D7%99%D7%9D%22%20%D7%A0%D7%90%D7%A6%D7%99%D7%9D%22].</ref>: |
| − | {{quoteboxfloat:Let us make a reckoning – a true and terrible reckoning – with those Palestinian Arabs. Not only with the million or more Arabs who are under our rule, but with all of them. All those two and a half million Arabs who call themselves “the Palestinian people” and who are now in the bosom of the Arab world that surrounds us. | + | {{quotebox-float| Let us make a reckoning – a true and terrible reckoning – with those Palestinian Arabs. Not only with the million or more Arabs who are under our rule, but with all of them. All those two and a half million Arabs who call themselves “the Palestinian people” and who are now in the bosom of the Arab world that surrounds us. |
| | Since our settlers, the first Zionists, set foot on the sandy and marshy land of the land a hundred years ago, the Arabs, the locals, harassed them, robbed them, plundered them, beat them, humiliated them (:Awlad al-Mawt") 'children of death', <small>[used as a derogatory slur to mean 'cowards' or 'the helpless ones']</small> and murdered them (I am not now doing the whole account with the Arabs and the Muslims regarding their attitude towards the Jews. This is a very long account, and it has very dark and terrible chapters. But it also has beautiful chapters in comparison to other cultures and peoples, among whom the Jews lived). | | Since our settlers, the first Zionists, set foot on the sandy and marshy land of the land a hundred years ago, the Arabs, the locals, harassed them, robbed them, plundered them, beat them, humiliated them (:Awlad al-Mawt") 'children of death', <small>[used as a derogatory slur to mean 'cowards' or 'the helpless ones']</small> and murdered them (I am not now doing the whole account with the Arabs and the Muslims regarding their attitude towards the Jews. This is a very long account, and it has very dark and terrible chapters. But it also has beautiful chapters in comparison to other cultures and peoples, among whom the Jews lived). |