Israel Quotes - Page 6

• No city in the world, not even Athens or Rome, ever played as great a role in the life of a nation for so long a time, as Jerusalem has done in the life of the Jewish people.

  David Ben-Gurion

  Rome, Cities, Long

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• Since its very inception, Israel has been a threat.

  Bashar al-Assad

  Threat, Inception, Has Beens

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• The Jews are trying to destroy all other cultures...as a survival mechanism...the only Nazi country in the world is Israel.

  David Duke

  Country, Other Cultures, Ku Klux Klan

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• Pakistan has not recognized Israel... any such decision would be taken in supreme national interests after due consultation of the parliament.

  Shaukat Aziz

  Taken, Decision, Would Be

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• I never believed that Israel had the right to exist at all.

  Tom Paulin

  "Harvard bars Oxford poet" by Oliver Burkeman, www.theguardian.com. November 14, 2002.

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• So I decided the only place I can speak to the world is from outside Israel.

  Mordechai Vanunu

  World, Speak, Decided

  "Democracy Now!" with Amy Goodman, www.counterpunch.org. August 18, 2004.

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• The most important sign in Matthew has to be the restoration of the Jews to the land in the rebirth of Israel.

  Hal Lindsey

  Land, Important, Restoration

  Hal Lindsey, Carole C. Carlson (1970). “The Late Great Planet Earth”, p.53, Zondervan

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• Our role in Israel is a pioneering one, and we need people with certain strength of fiber.

  Moshe Sharett

  People, Needs, Roles

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• I've never felt like this in any other country. I feel at home, I feel wonderful

  Whitney Houston

  Country, Home, Wonderful

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• Israel is the only place on earth where Jews have the possibility to shape public life according to their own traditional ideals.

  Albert Einstein

  Earth, Shapes, Possibility

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.224, Princeton University Press

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• Every time we do something you tell me America will do this and will do that . . . I want to tell you something very clear: Don't worry about American pressure on Israel. We, the Jewish people, control America, and the Americans know it.

  Ariel Sharon

  America, People, Worry

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• You in Lebanon, your power is no match to Israel. Israel, militarily, is more powerful than you and maybe it is more powerful than all the Arab countries, or most of them.

  Bashar al-Assad

  Country, Powerful, Lebanon

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• I were an Arab leader, I would never sign an agreement with Israel. It is normal; we have taken their country. It is true God promised it to us, but how could that interest them? Our God is not theirs. There has been anti-Semitism, the Nazis, Hitler, Auschwitz, but was that their fault? They see but one thing: we have come and we have stolen their country. Why would they accept that?

  David Ben-Gurion

  Country, Taken, Agreement

  "The Jewish Paradox". Book by Nahum Goldmann, p. 121, 1978.

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• The idea that you can make love and not war really is pretty neat. That thing in Korea, the thing in Israel - that's all over the world. There must be a new way of thinking.

  F. Murray Abraham

  War, Thinking, Ideas

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• We walked outside, Ben-Gurion accompanying us. Allon repeated his question, What is to be done with the Palestinian population?' Ben-Gurion waved his hand in a gesture which said 'Drive them out!

  Yitzhak Rabin

  Hands, Population, Done

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• It is the duty of Israeli leaders to explain to public opinion, clearly and courageously, a certain number of facts that are forgotten with time. The first of these is that there is no Zionism, colonialization, or Jewish State without the eviction of the Arabs and the expropriation of their lands.

  Ariel Sharon

  Land, Numbers, Leader

  Agence France Presse, en.wikipedia.org. November 15, 1998.

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• To all who suffer- to all who feel discouraged, worried, or lonely- I say with love and deep concern for you, never give in. Never surrender. Never allow despair to overcome your spirit. Embrace and rely upon the Hope of Israel, for the love of the Son of God pierces all darkness, softens all sorrow, and gladdens every heart.

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Lonely, Heart, Son

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• We have said that Israel has had a very bad history with the United Nations, and whoever cares for himself in Israel distances himself from that Organization.

  Yitzhak Shamir

  Distance, Uprising, Organization

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• Israel of the coastal plain, where eight out of ten Israeli Jews live far removed from the occupied territories, from the fiery Jerusalem, from the religious and nationalistic conflicts, is unknown to the outside world, almost unknown to itself.

  Amos Oz

  Religious, Eight, World

  "Coping with Conflict: Israeli Author Amos Oz". "PBS NewsHour" with Elizabeth Fransworth, www.pbs.org. January 22, 2002.

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• The Israeli regime is a tool in the hands of Zionists to control the Middle-East and the entire world.

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

  Hands, Middle East, Tools

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• We plan to eliminate the state of Israel and establish a purely Palestinian state. We will make life unbearable for Jews by psychological warfare and population explosion. We Palestinians will take over everything, including all of Jerusalem.

  Yasser Arafat

  Islamic, Population, Warfare

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I want to say a simple thing, that the dividing line exists not between Jordan and Israel, but between the proponents of peace and the opponents of peace.

  King Hussein I

  Simple, Lines, Opponents

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• I defend Israel's right to exist, to defend themselves, to not let themselves be exterminated a second time.

  Oriana Fallaci

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• The Iraqi prime minister is an anti-Semite. We don't need to spend $200 and $300 and $500 billion dollars bringing democracy to Iraq to turn it over to people who believe that Israel doesn't have a right to defend itself and who refuse to condemn Hezbollah.

  Howard Dean

  Believe, Iraq, People

  "Dean Calls Iraqi Prime Minister Anti-Semite, Criticizes Bush For U.S. Visit". www.foxnews.com. July 26, 2006.

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• One of the first sights that shocked me, when I came to Israel in 1921, was an Arab turning over a field with a very primitive plow; pulling the plow were an ox and a woman. Now, if it means that we have destroyed this romantic picture by bringing in tractors, combines, and threshing machines, this is true: we have.

  Golda Meir

  Funny, Humorous, Mean

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