A Tarnished Gem -Goldstone Report Cnt'd

From testimony before the commission:

Chief of Staff Eitan in Israel, he also once said, “The Palestinians are cockroaches, grasshoppers. We must put them in a bottle close the bottle and throw them away.” This was his view of the Palestinians. These were some Nazi expressions used against the Jews. Some of the Israeli generals had the same uniforms as the Nazis.

Dr. Iyyad El-Sarraji

a) Raful was referring to terrorists, not 'Palestinians'.

b) he never said "throw them away".

c) the metaphor was exerting control so as to reduce damage.

From the CAMERA site:

[the source is] an April 13, 1983 article by Gad Becker in the Israeli daily, Yediot Ahronot. This original source of the quote, however, indicates that Eitan’s comment was atypical, made in specific reference to Arab violence. According to Becker, this “uncharacteristic”(as he puts it) and controversial comment was made by outgoing Chief of Staff Eitan during a discussion of how best to deal with Arab violence in the West Bank. In responding to suggestions by Knesset members that the army should stop stone throwers by shooting at their feet or throwing stones back, Eitan reportedly said:

The Arabs will never win over us by throwing stones. Our response must be a nationalist Zionist response. For every stone that’s thrown–we will build ten settlements. If 100 settlements will exist–and they will–between Nablus and Jerusalem, stones will not be thrown. If this will be the situation, then the Arabs will only be able to scurry around like drugged roaches in a bottle.