Attar, Samar. Debunking the Myths of Colonization: The Arabs and Europe. Lanham, Md: University Press of America, 2010.

[...] Chaim Weizmann (1874–1952), who was born in Russia and later became a naturalized British subject and in 1948 the first president of the State of Israel, said of the Palestinians: “The British told us that there are some hundred thousands Negroes. . . and for those there is no value.” Rafael Eitan, the Israeli general and former Chief of Staff, whose ancestry goes back to Russia too, speaks of Palestinians in 1983 as “drugged cockroaches inside a bottle.” This is the common crude language of intruders/ colonists who have originally arrived from Europe to different parts of the world. Ironically, the Jews in Europe were never considered Europeans, yet some of them seemed to have emulated the racial and ideological make-up of their tormentors!

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