“Israel may have the right to put others on trial, but certainly no one has the right to put the Jewish people and the State of Israel on trial”
— Ariel Sharon, BBC News, March 25, 2001.

“Jews as individuals are great individuals — talented, ambitious, intelligent, smart. As a people [though], I would not give them as high a grade. Jews know how to hate.”
— Ariel Sharon, in an interview with the Israeli daily Yediot Aharanot, Feb. 1, 2002. Quoted in the Los Angeles Times, Feb. 2, 2002, p. B3.