“We must blow
Gaza back to the Middle Ages destroying all the infrastructure including roads and water” (
Eli Yishai, present Deputy Prime Minister); “There should be no electricity in
Gaza, no gasoline or moving vehicles, nothing. … We need to flatten entire neighborhoods … flatten all of
Gaza” (
journalist Gilad Sharon in the
Jerusalem Post); “There are no innocents in
Gaza. Mow them down … kill the
Gazans without thought or mercy.” (Michael Ben-Ari, member of the
Knesset);
Gaza should be “bombed so hard the
population has to flee into
Egypt” (
Israel Katz, present Minister of Transportation);
Gaza should be “wiped clean with
bombs” (
Avi Dichter, present Minister of Home Front Defense);
Israeli soldiers must “learn from the
Syrians how to slaughter the enemy” (prominent
Israeli Rabbi Yaakov Yosef).
