Here is some of the info camera.org show, and later you need to read the answer from Ben Goriun:
"Examples of Omer’s outright falsehoods:
a) Mr. Omer refers to "the Israeli colony of Ashkelon"
Ashkelon came under British rule during World War I and under Israeli control in 1948, and was re-established as an Israeli city in 1953. It is recognized by the international community as such.
By characterizing Ashkelon as an "Israeli colony", Mohammed Omer makes it evident that he does not recognize the legitimacy of the State of Israel and therefore considers all cities within the pre-1967 borders of Israel to be "colonies." And by publishing this, the New Statesman has, in effect, gone on record declaring Israel to be an illegitimate state.
b) Omer states that "For the first eight months after Israel removed its illegal colonies from Gaza in September 2005, Hamas and the Palestinian resistance observed a ceasefire, despite Israel's continued random shelling, kidnapping of officials and targeted assassinations."
Israel removed its settlements from Gaza in August — not, as Omer claims, in September 2005. But more importantly, his claim that Palestinian terrorists ("resistance" in Omer's parlance) observed any real ceasefire during the period he cites (from September 2005 until May of 2006) is incorrect. In fact, they carried out hundreds of attacks during this period, including 14 that resulted in Israeli deaths. In addition, hundreds of attempted attacks were thwarted by Israeli Security forces. Hamas, despite its supposed ceasefire, not only allowed other Palestinian terrorist groups to launch terrorist and rocket attacks from Gaza, but claimed responsibility itself for attacking Israel. (For more details on Israelis killed by Palestinian terrorists during this time, click here.)..."
http://www.camera.org/index.asp?x_context=2&x_outlet=174&x_article=1477
Here is the answer:
"Jewish villages were built in the place of Arab villages. You do not even know the names of these Arab villages, and I do not blame you because geography books no longer exist. Not only do the books not exist, the Arab villages are not there either. Nahlal arose in the place of Mahlul; Kibbutz Gvat in the place of Jibta; Kibbutz Sarid in the place of Huneifis; and Kefar Yehushua in the place of Tal al-Shuman. There is not a single place built in this country that did not have a former Arab population."
-- David Ben Gurion, quoted in The Jewish Paradox, by Nahum Goldmann, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1978, p. 99.
Also:
"Let us not ignore the truth among ourselves ... politically we are the aggressors and they defend themselves... The country is theirs, because they inhabit it, whereas we want to come here and settle down, and in their view we want to take away from them their country."
-- David Ben Gurion, quoted on pp 91-2 of Chomsky's Fateful Triangle, which appears in Simha Flapan's "Zionism and the Palestinians pp 141-2 citing a 1938 speech.
