WINSTON CHURCHILL REFERRED TO PALESTINIANS AS A DOG IN A MANGER

WINSTON CHURCHILL REFERRED TO PALESTINIANS AS A DOG IN A MANGER

Suzanna Arundhati Roy delves into a troubling historical narrative, tracing its origins back to Winston Churchill’s 1937 statement about Palestinians. Churchill, stating, ‘I do not admit that a great wrong has been done to these people,’ sets the tone for the Israeli state’s subsequent attitudes.

Fast forward to Golda Meir denying the very existence of Palestinians, Prime Minister Levi Eshkol questioning ‘What are Palestinians?’ and Menachem Begin referring to them as ‘two-legged beasts.’

This wasn’t the rhetoric of ordinary citizens but the disturbing language of heads of state, shaping policies and perceptions for decades.

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English Script:
Suzanna Arundhati Roy: In 1937, Winston Churchill said of the Palestinians, I quote, I do not agree that the dog in the manger has the final right to the manger, even though he may have lived there for a very long time. I do not admit that Right. I do not admit, for instance, that a great wrong has been done to the Red Indians of America or the black people of Australia. I do not admit that a wrong has been done to these people by the fact that a stronger race, a higher grade race, a more worldly wise race, to put it that way, has come in and taken their place. That set the trend for the Israeli state’s attitude towards Palestinians. In 1969, Israeli Prime Minister Golda meir said Palestinians do not exist. Her successor, Prime Minister Levi Eshkol, said, What are Palestinians? When I came here to Palestine, there were 250,000 non-Jews, mainly Arabs and Bedouins. It was a desert, more than underdeveloped, nothing. Prime Minister Menachem Begin calls Palestinians two legged beasts. Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir called them grasshoppers who could be crushed. This is the language of heads of state, not the words of ordinary people.