[1] These days in Israel, in response to Hamas’ brutal massacre, calls to ethnically cleanse Gaza, deliberately targeting civilians on a mass scale, and other dehumanizing language, have become common.

Here are a few examples of this discourse over the last few days.

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[2] “If all the captives are not returned immediately, then turn the Strip into a slaughterhouse. If a hair falls from their head - execute security prisoners. Violate all norms on the way to victory…”

David Mizrahy Verthaim -Editor & Journalist

[3] “Gaza has to be wiped off from the face of the earth”

Shimon Riklin - Journalist

[4] It's time for Nakba 2

Yinon Magal - Journalist and Politician.

[5] Bring down buildings!! Bomb without distinction!! Stop with this impotence. You have ability. There is worldwide legitimacy! Flatten Gaza. Without mercy! This time, there is no room for mercy!

Revital Gottlieb - Likud MK

[6] “Nakba to the enemy now! This day is our Pearl Harbor. We will still learn the lessons. Right now, one goal: Nakba! A Nakba that will overshadow the Nakba of 48. A Nakba in Gaza and a Nakba for anyone who dares to join!..”

Ariel Kallner - Likud MK

[7] Say, why exactly do we have an atomic bomb?

Shimon Riklin - Journalist

[8] “Gaza started a war with IL today…When you are at war with another state you don't feed them, you don't provide them with electricity or gas or water or anything else.”

Giora Eiland - was an IDF Major General & the former head of IL NSC

[9] “The world finally understands who the animals we are dealing with are... This allows the IDF to exact a much heavier price from Gaza. Not only from Hamas. Everyone who is celebrating now in Gaza - should cry. It's that simple.”

Ofer Hadad - Journalist & TV Anchor

[10] “this [picture of destroyed neighborhood] is how all of Gaza, all of Gaza”

Yinon Magal - Journalist & Anchor

[11] “Jericho Missile! Jericho Missile! Strategic alert. Before considering bringing forces [into Gaza]. Doomsday weapon! This is my opinion…” [According to foreign sources, Jericho Missiles can carry nuclear warheads.]
Revital Gottlieb - Likud MK

[12] "I want a big revenge" "I really hope that our revenge, that of the State of Israel, on the cruel enemy - will be a very big revenge. I don't call them human animals because that would be insulting to animals…"

Sara Netanyahu - PM’s Wife

[13] [The war] “needs to be finished with 2 important achievements: Territory: … taking control of all the open areas in [Gaza] … Population: thinning out the population in the [Gaza] Strip as much as possible by encouraging them to leave...”

Shimon Riklin - Journalist

[14] “it's an entire nation out there that is responsible. it's not true this rhetoric about civilians not aware not involved, it’s absolutely not true…”

Isaac Herzog - President

 

[15] “You are confused, we do not need to bring a significant achievement in Gaza - we need to eliminate Gaza. This means that the area needs to be cleaned."

Yinon Magal - Journalist & Anchor

[16] “I spoke about a million bodies not as a goal, I said that if, in order to finally eliminate the military capabilities of Hamas, including Sinwar and Deif, we need a million bodies, then let there be a million bodies”

Roy Sharon - Journalist

[17] "Erase Gaza, don't leave a single person there."

Eyal Golan - Popular Singer

[18] “if the goal of this operation is not destruction, occupation, deportation and settlement, we have done nothing. In the end, the whole country will be [Kibbutz] Be’eri"

Moshe Feiglin - former Likud MK

[19] “We must not show mercy to cruel people, there is no place for any humanitarian gestures – we must erase the memory of Amalek (biblical tribe hostile to the Israelites) ".

Boaz Bismuth - Likud MK

[20] “It is not Hamas that should be eliminated. Gaza should be razed and Israel’s rule should be restored to the place. This is our country."

Moshe Feiglin - former Likud MK

[21] “A leadership that has mercy on monsters who massacred us is not worthy of leadership. A ceasefire for several hours is surrender, it is weakness, humiliation … Without crushing Hamas and razing Gaza, we will not have the right to exist”

Revital Gottlieb - Likud MK