“settlers-stealers should be more aggressive and use weapons”: this man one day, in the coming life, will pay a big price.

Every single Jew in the parts of the Mandate seized by the Arabs was expelled from their homes. No exceptions. They even dynamited the entire ancient Jewish quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem in an attempt to wipe out the history of Jewish residence there. They also made it illegal for a Jew to live in the areas of the former Mandate that they controlled, including the West Bank, Gaza and Jordan.
850,000 Jews were also forced from the Arab countries.

After the 5 Arab armies attacked Israel in 48,
Haj Amin Al Husseini, the deeply racist Nazi collaborator, stated:
I declare a holy war, my muslim brothers! Murder the Jews! Murder them all!
The Arab League Secretary, General Azzam Pasha declared “a holy war. He said, “This will be a war of extermination and a momentous massacre which will be spoken of like the Mongolian massacres and the Crusades.

Thanks for the interview Ami and although I live near Hevron my house is on Land that was never owned by an Arab. You are welcome to talk with me further.

The only thing he said with which I agree.

If the State announces not only to its citizens but to the world that it will be a democracy that upholds international standards of ownership, i.e. purchasing land from those who own it rather than filching it, land that belonged to Palestinians who fled the fighting in 1948, never mind the post-1967 annexations and occupations isn’t the state’s to reallocate. If you can only use land procured by buying it from its previous owner, you can’t declare military zones, build universities, houses, prisons, “separation walls”, add fields and pastures to kibbutzim, turn mosques into museums of archaeology, raze houses to the ground on it. And if, in the fog of war, you made light of these laws, you have to at the very least fulfil your promises to previous owners who were never involved in the fighting to allow them back. Or, where it is not possible in the eyes of the law, to compensate them.

Israelis killed Israelis before Rabin was assassinated. Amir takes care to mention the Altalena in this interview.

I was as shocked and stunned as you were by Rabin’s assassination and the appalling incitement that preceded it. But “sometimes it isn’t nice to look in the mirror”.

“We”? maybe you but I have a lot of difficulty seeing myself in his words.

Rabin’s assassination was totally shocking and left me stunned — how was it possible that Israelis could start killing each other?

“when you are cruel to people in jails, that cruelty will not stay there but will find its way out. The prisons are the mirror through which the face of society is truly reflected. Especially through how the society treats its prisoners, its true face is shown as it is”: Speaks directly to the Palestinian prisoners as well. A disturbing interview, for we can see bits of ourselves in it.