- The Guardian
- Issue #2077
Palestinians inspect the damage following an Israeli airstrike on the El-Remal aera in Gaza City on 9th October 2023. Photo: Palestinian News & Information Agency (Wafa) in contract with APAimages – Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0 Deed).
Compiled by Graham Holton
“We need to flatten entire neighbourhoods in Gaza. Flatten all of Gaza. The Americans didn’t stop with Hiroshima – the Japanese weren’t surrendering fast enough, so they hit Nagasaki, too. There should be no electricity in Gaza, no gasoline or moving vehicles, nothing.”
Eli Yishai, Israeli Politician
“The Oslo Accords in 1993 determined that the Gaza Strip and the West Bank are a single territorial entity which cannot be divided. Immediately, the United States and Israel set about separating the two and making sure that they would not be united.”
Noam Chomsky, US linguist and activist
“I don’t want, under any circumstances, to see in ‘Haaretz’ a picture of a woman with a baby in her arms crying while policemen deport her.”
Also Eli Yishai
“I never thought I would go to Gaza. It’s incredibly difficult to get into, and when you get there, it’s a war zone. Then they have this beach, and there’s this incredible, vibrant beach culture there, which is something that I grew up with in Southern California.”
Hailey Gates, US model, actor and journalist
“Destroy and damage infrastructure, public buildings and government buildings. Do not leave them any place from which they can operate to damage Israel. We must be sure that Hamas will be spending many years in rebuilding Gaza and not in attacking Israel.”
Eli Yishai again
“Each time there is a conflict between Israel and Gaza, accusations fly over who started it, each side blaming the other.”
Richard Engel, US journalist
