Ouze Merham

Ouze Merham is a fictitious Israeli general who supposedly interviewed future Prime Minister of Israel Ariel Sharon in 1956. In the interview Sharon allegedly said:

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Israeli - General - Prime Minister of Israel - Ariel Sharon - 1956

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I vow that I?ll burn every Palestinian child (that) will be born in this area. The Palestinian women and child is more dangerous than the man, because the Palestinian child?s existence infers that generations will go on, but the man causes limited danger. I vow that if I was just an Israeli civilian and I met a Palestinian I would burn him and I would make him suffer before killing him. With one hit I've killed 750 Palestinians (in Rafah in 1956). I wanted to encourage my soldiers by raping Arabic girls as the Palestinian woman is a slave for Jews, and we do whatever we want to her and nobody tells us what we shall do but we tell others what they shall do.

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Palestinian - Rafah

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It first appeared on Muslim websites in mid-2001 during the Al-Aqsa Intifada. The quote is viewed as false for a number of reasons:

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Muslim - Website - 2001 - Al-Aqsa Intifada

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• The term "Palestinian" was rarely used by Israelis to refer to Palestinian Arabs in 1956.
• It is unclear why an Israeli general would interview Sharon, and then publish the interview.
• There is no record of any Israeli general named "Ouze Merham" existing, nor any record of Sharon giving such an interview in 1956.
• The quote exists in no verifiable publication.
• There are a number of of false quotes attributed to Sharon which are circulating on the internet.{{ref|FalseQuotes}}

The hoax quotation is frequently used as anti-Israel propaganda. Student columnist Mariam Sobh used the quote in her December 11, 2003 Daily Illinicolumn, but later apologized.

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Propaganda - Columnist

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