Israeli Quotes - Page 2

• I am pro-Israeli, not because of political expediency, but because I believe Israel is the fulfillment of Biblical prophecy.

  Jimmy Carter

  Believe, Biblical, Israel

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• As an Israeli, I have come to understand: there is no way to love Israel and reject a two-state peace, no way to love Israel and reject Palestine.

  Yael Dayan

  Love Is, Israel, Two

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• As Israel prepares to enter, my position is well known. It is one that I have taken at previous Olympics. It is wrong that the IOC refuses to have a minute's silence for Israeli athletes that were slaughtered in Munich.

  Brian Williams

  Taken, Athlete, Israel

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• Israeli murderers are called "commandos," Arab commandos are called "terrorists."

  George Carlin

  Humorous, Terrorist, Murderer

  George Carlin (2002). “Napalm & Silly Putty”, Hyperion

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• The dreams and the visions of the Israeli founding fathers, these were very very ambitious dreams. They were world reformers. They wanted to create a new and improved kind of humanity, or at least, a new and improved Jewish society, a new and improved Jewish individual human being here. The whole Zionist project was based on a whole spectrum of different and even conflicting dreams and visions.

  Amos Oz

  Dream, Father, Humanity

  Source: logger.believermag.com

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• Israeli occupation exposes us very young to the extremes of our emotions, until we cannot feel except in the extreme.

  Susan Abulhawa

  Israeli Occupation, Emotion, Young

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• Toughness found fertile soil in the hearts of Palestinians, and the grains of resistance embedded themselves in their skin. Endurance evolved as a hallmark of refugee society. But the price they paid was the subduing of tender vulnerability. They learned to celebrate martyrdom. Only martyrdom offered freedom. Only in death were they at last invulnerable to Israel. Martyrdom became the ultimate defiance of Israeli occupation.

  Susan Abulhawa

  Heart, Israel, Skins

  Susan Abulhawa (2010). “Mornings in Jenin”, p.88, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• My closest friends from Israel make fun of me for becoming an American, and my American friends make fun of how Israeli I am... I can't win.

  Alona Tal

  Fun, Winning, Israel

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

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• I cannot say that the attitude of the United Nations always is for the Israeli attitude. Israel, I think, has been under severe attacks by members of the United Nations many times.

  Ariel Sharon

  Attitude, Thinking, Israel

  "Transcript: Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon". "Your World with Neil Cavuto", www.foxnews.com. September 19, 2005.

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• The Israeli government has proved over the past year its commitment to peace, both in words and deeds. By contrast, the Palestinians are posing preconditions for renewing the diplomatic process in a way they have not done over the course of 16 years.

  Benjamin Netanyahu

  Commitment, Past, Years

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• Lebanon was under Israeli occupation, up to its capital, but we did not consider that a disaster. Why? Because it was very clear that there are ways to resist.

  Bashar al-Assad

  Eugenics, Israeli Occupation, Lebanon

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• The Israeli lobby has clout in the U.S., which means that re-arranging the region and controlling its resources one way or another, will serve Israel through its control over the American administration.

  Bashar al-Assad

  Mean, Israel, Way

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• Many occasions I've sat down with Israelis to say, where do you see your country in 10 years time, and work me back, so we can figure out the synergies and the connections between Israel and the rest of the Arab world. No Israeli has ever been able to answer that question.

  Abdallah II

  Country, Israel, Years

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• Sometimes, recently Israeli-Palestinian conflict is indeed a clash between wrong and wrong. It is not as simple as fascism was. Every decent man had to be against fascism, period. It is not as simple as apartheid or colonialism or racism or misogyny. It is not simple because the Palestinians have no other land. They are absolutely right about this. The Israeli Jews also have no other land and they are absolutely right about this. It is a tragedy of two peoples claiming the same very small country, about the size of New Jersey.

  Amos Oz

  Country, Simple, Men

  Source: logger.believermag.com

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• The idea that the rest of the world was somehow being held hostage by the Arab-Israeli conflict once had a minimal basis in reality. In the first 20 years of Israel's existence, every Arab country was in an active state of war with the Jewish state.

  John Podhoretz

  Country, War, Reality

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• The Israeli accent wasn't one that I was overly familiar with so had to learn from scratch but I was very fortunate I had the right amount of time.

  Eric Bana

  Scratches, Accents, Familiar

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• And on the other hand, we see that the Israeli government is attacking that part of the Palestinian leader.

  Rafik Hariri

  Government, Hands, Leader

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• When I introduced my economic plan for the first time, people had mixed views because it's the largest cut in the history of Israeli budgets. We have a big deficit caused by the fact that the former government took upon itself too many obligations.

  Yair Lapid

  Cutting, People, Economic

  Source: www.slate.com

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• We want to end this misery of the Palestinian people in order for us really to live with dignity as human beings in an independent state side by side with the Israeli state.

  Benjamin Netanyahu

  Independent, Order, People

  Source: cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com

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• Two years ago, Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon described the Gaza Strip settlement of Netzarim as a vital part of Israel's national security and now he is going to leave. That is because of the 'effective armed struggle'.

  Zuheir Mohsen

  Islamic, Struggle, Years

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• Israel is a colonialist-imperialist phenomenon. There is no such thing as an Israeli people. Before 1948, world geography knew of no state such as Israel. Israel is the result of an invasion, of aggression.

  Muammar al-Gaddafi

  Israel, People, World

  "World: An Interview with Gaddafi". TIME Interview, April 9, 1979.

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• All the people who live in the West Bank are Israelis, they're not Palestinians. There is no 'Palestinian.' This is Israeli land.

  Rick Santorum

  Land, People, West

  "Santorum: ‘All The People Who Live In The West Bank Are Israelis’". Conversation during a campaign stop in Iowa, thinkprogress.org. November 21, 2011.

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• When I was a kid you always heard about the Israeli army and you always heard about this tiny little country and how everyone around them wants them gone, and every time somebody comes after them they take care of business. And so as a Jewish kid you were proud of that.

  Adam Sandler

  Country, Kids, Army

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• If there were Israeli attacks on Iranian nuclear facilities, it makes it certain there would be a reprisal attack against the United States at some point.

  Salman Rushdie

  United States, Would Be, Nuclear

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• My grandmother was ill in bed when the Nazis came to her home town ... a German soldier shot her dead in her bed. My grandmother did not die to provide cover for Israeli soldiers murdering Palestinian grandmothers in Gaza. The present Israeli government ruthlessly and cynically exploit the continuing guilt from gentiles over the slaughter of Jews in the Holocaust as justification for their murder of Palestinians.

  Gerald Kaufman

  Home, Grandmother, Government

  "Commons debate on Gaza - live" by Andrew Sparrow, www.theguardian.com. January 15, 2009.

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