Ethnic Cleansing Quotes:

She viewed ethnic cleansing, famine and genocide as direct threats to her furniture.

- Arundhati Roy

source: Arundhati Roy (2002). “The God of Small Things”, p.28, Penguin Books India

topic: Cleansing, Furniture, Genocide, Ethnic Cleansing

What liberals mean by 'goose-stepping' or 'ethnic cleansing' is generally something along the lines of 'eliminating taxpayer funding for the National Endowment for the Arts.' But they can't say that, or people would realize they're crazy.

- Ann Coulter

source: Ann Coulter (2003). “Slander: Liberal Lies About the American Right”, p.16, Crown Forum

topic: Art, Crazy, Mean, Ethnic Cleansing

We walked outside, Ben-Gurion accompanying us. Allon repeated his question, What is to be done with the Palestinian population?' Ben-Gurion waved his hand in a gesture which said 'Drive them out!

- Yitzhak Rabin

topic: Hands, Population, Done, Jewish National, Zionism

All this happiness on display is suspect... If they think - and they could be right - that continued torture and summary executions, ethnic cleansing and occasional genocide are preferable to an invasion, they should be sombre in their view.

- Ian Mcewan

topic: Thinking, Views, Political, Ethnic Cleansing

History tells us that six million Jews disappeared during that war. If there was no Holocaust, where did they go?' She shakes her head. 'All of that, and the world didn't learn anything. Look around. There's still ethnic cleansing. There's discrimination.

- Jodi Picoult

source: Jodi Picoult (2013). “The Storyteller”, p.127, Simon and Schuster

topic: War, Holocaust, Looks, Ethnic Cleansing

I don't think nations can stand aside for ethnic cleansing and genocide.

- John Major

source: "Major, the chicken turned hawk". www.theguardian.com. April 10, 1999.

topic: Thinking, Cleansing, Genocide, Ethnic Cleansing

I wrote about Bosnia at the time. Somebody looked out their window and saw gangsters coming down the street and doing ethnic cleansing. I said that was the thing that would happen in the future, someone phoning in what they were seeing on the scene. Whether it's the Huffington Post, the Daily Beast, Drudge Report or the BBC, all those reports, you have to assume there's a real person [who] has credibility.

- Harold Evans

source: "Harold Evans Sees Bright Future for Print-on-Demand Newspapers". Interview with Mark Glaser, www.pbs.org. October 29, 2009.

topic: Real, Cleansing, Bosnia, Ethnic Cleansing, Real Person

America's development began with a large-scale ethnic cleansing, unprecedented in human history.

- Vladimir Putin

source: "Putin talks NSA, Syria, Iran, drones in RT interview". Interview with Margarita Simonyan, Oksana Boyko, www.rt.com. June 12, 2013.

topic: America, Development, Cleansing, Large Scale, Ethnic Cleansing

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

- Golda Meir

topic: Territory, Return, Terrorism, Zionism, Ethnic Cleansing

The Bible may, indeed does, contain a warrant for trafficking in humans, for ethnic cleansing, for slavery, for bride-price, and for indiscriminate massacre, but we are not bound by any of it because it was put together by crude, uncultured human mammals.

- Christopher Hitchens

topic: Atheist, Religion, Atheism, Subtle Atheist, Ethnic Cleansing

In terms intellectually, [what] shaped my life was the whole Munich thing [the Munich Agreement] that I knew about all my life, in terms of how large powers make decisions that affect small countries, and the unintended consequences of that. The other part is I knew about the Holocaust. l just didn't know that it applied to my family. But that did affect the way I thought about what I was seeing as ethnic cleansing in the Balkans; there's no question about that.

- Madeleine Albright

source: Source: www.chicagomaroon.com

topic: Country, Agreement, Holocaust, Small Countries, Balkans

Jewish villages were built in the place of Arab villages. You do not even know the names of these Arab villages, and I do not blame you because geography books no longer exist. Not only do the books not exist, the Arab villages are not there either. Nahlal arose in the place of Mahlul; Kibbutz Gvat in the place of Jibta; Kibbutz Sarid in the place of Huneifis; and Kefar Yehushua in the place of Tal al-Shuman. There is not a single place built in this country that did not have a former Arab population.

- Moshe Dayan

source: Moshe Dayan's address to the students at Technion University in Haifa, Israel (March 19, 1969), a transcription of which appeared in Ha'aretz (April 4, 1969); later quoted in Edward W. Said "The Question of Palestine" (p. 14), 1980.

topic: Country, Book, Names, Jewish National, Arab Israeli Conflict

It is the duty of Israeli leaders to explain to public opinion, clearly and courageously, a certain number of facts that are forgotten with time. The first of these is that there is no Zionism, colonialization, or Jewish State without the eviction of the Arabs and the expropriation of their lands.

- Ariel Sharon

source: Agence France Presse, en.wikipedia.org. November 15, 1998.

topic: Land, Numbers, Leader, Zionism, Arab Israeli Conflict

There is no such thing as a Palestinian people... It is not as if we came and threw them out and took their country. They didn't exist.

- Golda Meir

topic: Country, People, Terrorism, Zionist, Ethnic Cleansing

I'd like to teach Iraq about Democracy because we're so experienced with it. First they should know that after 100 years they should free their slaves. Then after 150 years they should give their women the right to vote. Oh, and of course when they start it all they should begin with some genocide and ethnic cleansing.

- Kurt Vonnegut

topic: Life, Years, Iraq, Ethnic Cleansing

Another phenomenon developing in Kenya is ethnic cleansing - and that's the thing that has made me very sad. Because some people will use the cover of the problems of rigged elections to do things that are unacceptable like ethnic cleansing and displacement of people. It's completely unacceptable.

- Ngugi wa Thiong'o

topic: People, Kenya, Use, Displacement, Ethnic Cleansing

I'd...bet enthusiasm for 'ethnic cleansing' will wane if only sticks and rocks are available for the warring parties.

- Bill Hicks

topic: Party, Rocks, Enthusiasm, Ethnic Cleansing

Any one who speaks in favor of bringing the Arab refugees back must also say how he expects to take the responsibility for it, if he is interested in the state of Israel. It is better that things are stated clearly and plainly: We shall not let this happen.

- Golda Meir

topic: Responsibility, Israel, Favors, Zionism, Ethnic Cleansing

The creation of India and Pakistan were pyrrhic victories for their denizens because the political, socioeconomic, psychological, and culture havoc wreaked by that momentous event is reflected in those pogroms, ethnic cleansing, proliferation of nuclear weapons, poverty, and riots that continue to cause seismic tremors in the Indian subcontinent.

- Nyla Ali Khan

topic: India And Pakistan, Political, Victory, Ethnic Cleansing

Israel should have exploited the repression of the demonstrations in China, when world attention focused on that country, to carry out mass expulsions among the Arabs of the territories.

- Benjamin Netanyahu

source: "Netanyahu on peace". Speech at Tel Aviv's Bar Ilan University, Israel, www.aljazeera.com. November 24, 1989.

topic: Country, Israel, Should Have, Zionism, Ethnic Cleansing

There is not one single place built in this country that did not have a former Arab population.

- Moshe Dayan

topic: Country, Population, Former, Jewish National, Zionism

Obscenity is a cleansing process, whereas pornography only adds to the murk.

- Henry Miller

source: Henry Miller, Frank L. Kersnowski (1994). “Conversations with Henry Miller”, Univ Pr of Mississippi

topic: Add, Literature, Cleansing, Ethnic Cleansing

There is no ethnic cleansing in Bahrain, no mass genocide, no policy of killing innocent people.

- Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa

topic: People, Killing, Innocent, Ethnic Cleansing, Bahrain

I have wanted to give Iraq a lesson in democracy - because we're experienced with it, you know. And, in democracy, after a hundred years, you have to let your slaves go. And, after a hundred and fifty years, you have to let your women vote. And, at the beginning of democracy, is that quite a bit of genocide and ethnic cleansing is quite okay. And that's what's going on now.

- Kurt Vonnegut

source: Interview with Jon Stewart on "The Daily Show", September 13, 2005.

topic: Years, Iraq, Giving, Ethnic Cleansing

We do not wish and do not need to expel Arabs and take their places.

- David Ben-Gurion

source: Letter to his son Amos on October 5, 1937. "Fabricating Israeli History: The 'New Historians'" by Efraim Karsh, 1997.

topic: Israel, Scary, Cleansing, Jewish National, Zionism

When I hear from people that religion doesn't hurt anything, I say really? Well besides wars, the crusades, the inquisitions, 9-11, ethnic cleansing, the suppression of women, the suppression of homosexuals, fatwas, honor killings, suicide bombings, arranged marriages to minors, human sacrifice, burning witches, and systematic sex with children, I have a few little quibbles. And I forgot blowing up girl schools in Afghanistan.

- Bill Maher

topic: Girl, Suicide, Hurt, Crusades, Ethnic Cleansing

We must not forget; but we must forgive. Suffering often such compassion from the Jewish community. It was Jewish groups in the US who were in the forefront in opposing the ethnic cleansing of Muslim in Bosnia.

- George Soros

topic: Compassion, Community, Forgiving, Jewish Community, Ethnic Cleansing

The Palestinians are like crocodiles, the more you give them meat, they want more.

- Ehud Barak

topic: Israel, Giving, Want, Jewish National, Ethnic Cleansing

If we thought that instead of 200 Palestinian fatalities, 2,000 dead would put an end to the fighting at a stroke, we would use much more force....

- Ehud Barak

source: "German man killed in renewed Israeli assault". www.theguardian.com. November 16, 2000.

topic: Fighting, Use, Terrorism, Fatality, Ethnic Cleansing

Israel may have the right to put others on trial, but certainly no one has the right to put the Jewish people and the State of Israel on trial.

- Ariel Sharon

source: "Clashes mar Mid-East inquiry", news.bbc.co.uk. March 25, 2001.

topic: Israel, People, Trials, Zionist, Zionism