Because it wasn't a lie.  Nor was it out-of-context.  Nor was it unique or an aberration.  There are nearly identical statements documented from the mass-murderers Sharon, Shamir, Ben Gurion, Peres and Begin, as well as many other prominent Zionists such as Perrin, Koenig, Katsav, Eitan, Lubrani, Barak, Herzl and Weizmann going back to the beginnings of their movement in the last decades of the 19th century.  I am prepared to start posting them  And so far you have responded as every other Zionist apologist does when the mask is torn from their fascist apartheid state--gabble semi-coherent lies to try and obscure the horrific reality of your colonial movement.  You haven't.