Israel Quotes

• Israel was not created in order to disappear - Israel will endure and flourish. It is the child of hope and the home of the brave. It can neither be broken by adversity nor demoralized by success. It carries the shield of democracy and it honors the sword of freedom.

  John F. Kennedy

  Children, Adversity, Home

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• I think Hamas should be challenged to consider really embracing Gandhi and Dr. Kings philosophy of advocating nonviolence as a way to achieve self determination, end occupation, achieve unity within their country, and gain allies within Israel. I think this idea of an eye for and eye, a rocket for a bomb, will never bring about peace for either side.

  Jesse Jackson

  Country, Determination, Kings

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• Syria is Iran's only ally in the Arab world. It's their route to the sea. It's the route for them to arm Hezbollah in Lebanon, which threatens, of course, our ally, Israel.

  Mitt Romney

  Iran, Sea, Allies

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• Israel uses weapons to safeguard civilians. Hamas uses civilians to safeguard weapons.

  Mark Pellegrino

  Use, Weapons, Hamas

  Twitter post from Jul 11, 2014

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• The United States and Israel have enjoyed a friendship built on mutual respect and commitment to democratic principles. Our continuing search for peace in the Middle East begins with a recognition that the ties uniting our two countries can never be broken.

  George W. Bush

  Country, Commitment, Ties

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• Energy is the basis of everything. Every Jew, no matter how insignificant, is engaged in some decisive and immediate pursuit of a goal... It is the most perpetual people of the earth.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  People, Goal, Energy

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• The Palestinians want a state, but they have to give peace in return. What they're trying to do in the United Nations is to get a state without giving Israel peace or giving Israel peace and security. And I think that's, that's wrong. That should not succeed. That should, that should fail.

  Benjamin Netanyahu

  Thinking, Giving, Trying

  "One-on-one with Prime Minister Netanyahu". Interview with David Gregory, www.nbcnews.com. September 25, 2011.

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• And by the way, a piece of news, Israel is the one country in which everyone is pro-American, opposition and coalition alike. And I represent the entire people of Israel who say, 'Thank you, America.'' And we're friends of America, and we're the only reliable allies of America in the Middle East.

  Benjamin Netanyahu

  Thank You, Country, America

  "Israel entirely 'pro-America'". Interview with David Gregory, www.nbcnews.com. September 25, 2011.

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• You can't have a discussion about Israel and the region without including Iran and their nuclear ambitions.

  Peter MacKay

  Ambition, Iran, Nuclear

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• If we have to have a choice between being dead and pitied, and being alive with a bad image, we'd rather be alive and have the bad image.

  Golda Meir

  Funny, Humorous, Choices

  Golda Meir, Israel Shenker, Mary Shenker (1970). “As good as Golda: the warmth and wisdom of Israel's Prime Minister”

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• Tel-Aviv airport is still the only airport in the world where each passenger is met by ten relatives.

  George Mikes

  Funny, Humorous, Airports

  George Mikes (1969). “Coat of Many Colors: Israel”

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• Israel is the canary in the mine. What happens to Israel will eventually happen to America itself.

  David Horowitz

  America, Canaries, Mines

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• And if we are honest we have to make a distinction between a democratic Israel that wants to live in peace and the terrorists who want Israel wiped out. The Israelis were told to give up land for peace; they gave up the land, but got no peace.

  J. D. Hayworth

  Giving Up, Land, Want

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• First of all, Arafat is wrong. Jerusalem is Israel's capital, will never be divided, and will remain the capital of the State of Israel, the capital of the Jewish people, for ever and ever.

  Benjamin Netanyahu

  People, Jerusalem, Firsts

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• There's Hezbollah, there's Hamas, there is a whole range of terrorist targets out there related to Palestine and to Israel that we ought to be trying to deal with. And there's a great deal of targets in the Philippines, Indonesia. You name it, there are a number of places where there are targets that we ought to be trying to deal with.

  Lawrence Eagleburger

  Numbers, Names, Trying

  "Transcript: Lawrence Eagleburger on FNS". Interview With Brit Hume, www.foxnews.com. August 19, 2002.

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• When the President of Iran talks about removing Israel from the face of the Earth and is building nuclear bombs with a range of 3000km, you have to be worried.

  Ehud Olmert

  Iran, President, Nuclear

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• Come, thou long expected Jesus, born to set thy people free; from our fears and sins release us; let us find our rest in thee. Israel's strength and consolation, hope of all the earth thou art, dear desire of every nation, joy of every longing heart.

  Charles Wesley

  Jesus, Art, Long

  Charles Wesley, Frederic M. BIRD (1867). “Charles Wesley seen in his finer and less familiar poems. [A collection of his poems edited by F. M. Bird.]”, p.59

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• Let me first tell you one thing: It doesn't matter what the world says about Israel; it doesn't matter what they say about us anywhere else. The only thing that matters is that we can exist here on the land of our forefathers. And unless we show the Arabs that there is a high price to pay for murdering Jews, we won't survive.

  David Ben-Gurion

  Land, World, Pay

  Quoted by Ariel Sharon in "The 50 Years War: Israel and the Arabs" documentary, 1999.

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• We are not going to damage our safety and our security. We're not going to give those extremists the privilege to come so freely to Israel in order to carry out more attacks against us and kill us one day after another.

  Silvan Shalom

  Order, Safety, Giving

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• Unprovoked attacks on Israel's borders, murdering Israeli soldiers, taking Israeli hostages and showering rockets targeting and killing Israeli civilians are not furthering any legitimate goal.

  Alcee Hastings

  Goal, Soldier, Borders

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• Israel was not created in order to disappear. Israel will endure and flourish.

  John F. Kennedy

  Order, Disappear, Endure

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• American foreign policy has been - and must continue to be - based on unequivocal support for Israel's right to exist and to be free from terror.

  Howard Berman

  Support, Unequivocal, Foreign Policy

  "CNN Wolf Blitzer Reports", www.cnn.com. September 10, 2003.

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• If the Arabs put down their weapons today, there would be no more ‎violence. If the Jews put ‎down their weapons ‎today, there would be no ‎more Israel'‎

  Benjamin Netanyahu

  Would Be, Weapons, Today

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• The fact is that people who strap bombs to their bodies to blow up families at a Bar Mitzvah in Israel, plant bombs at a nightclub in Bali, or slit stewardesses' throats and ram airplanes filled with innocent Americans into office buildings do not do so for any reason related to poverty. They do so because they hold evil beliefs and have deformed consciences

  Dennis Prager

  Airplane, Blow, People

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• In Israel, free men and women are every day demonstrating the power of courage and faith. Back in 1948 when Isreal was founded, pundits claimed the new country could never survive. Today, no one questions that. Israel is a land of stability and democracy in a region of tyranny and unrest.

  Ronald Reagan

  Country, Men, Land

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