1895: “We shall try to spirit the penniless population across the border by procuring employment for it in the transit countries, while denying it any employment in our own country… expropriation and the removal of the poor must be carried out discreetly and circumspectly.” — Theodor Herzl, commonly known as the father of modern political Zionism

1938: “With compulsory transfer we (would) have a vast area (for settlement)…I support compulsory transfer. I don’t see anything immoral in it.” David Ben-Gurion, first Prime Minister of Israel

1940: “It must be clear that there is no room for both peoples in this country…The Zionist enterprise so far…has been fine and good in its own time, and could do with ‘land buying’ — but this will not bring about the State of Israel; that must come all at once, in the manner of a Salvation (this is the secret of the Messianic idea); and there is no way besides transferring the Arabs from here to the neighboring countries, to transfer them all; except maybe for Bethlehem, Nazareth and Old Jerusalem, we must not leave a single village, not a single tribe.” — Joseph Weitz, Director of the Jewish National Land Fund

Israel never offered Palestine a viable state.

In 2008, Hamas was willing to sit down and talk. Netanyahu rejected that.