Israel Quotes - Page 15

• A lot of movies that come from Israel are about war, but there is such good, funny, rounded writing that comes from the country that I wish more people would discover.

  Odeya Rush

  Country, War, Writing

  "Brenton Thwaites and Odeya Rush on 'The Giver'". Interview with Matt Fagerholm, www.rogerebert.com. August 11, 2014.

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• The nations which have put mankind and posterity most in their debt have been small states Israel, Athens, Florence, Elizabethan England.

  Bill Vaughan

  Florence, Minorities, Debt

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• No amount of money given in charity, nothing but the abandonment of this hateful trade, can atone for this great sin against God, Israel and Humanity.

  Hermann Adler

  Humanity, Charity, Hateful

  "The Pentateuch and Haftorahs" by Joseph H. Hertz, p. 849, (One-volume edition), 1937.

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• New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie is going to Israel. He's going to be pretty disappointed when he finds out the Gaza Strip isn't a steak.

  Jimmy Fallon

  Gaza Strip, Jersey, Steak

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• Those whom God calls to such a ministry - and a call is essential - must be prepared for a pathway of unpopularity and misunderstanding. "You troubler of Israel" was the way Ahab addressed Elijah.

  Arthur Wallis

  Ahab, Pathways, Essentials

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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, Becoming

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

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• The one thing that I'm absolutely sure about is that the people of Gaza aren't going anywhere. And neither are the people of Israel.

  Ross Kemp

  People, Gaza, One Thing

  "Ross Kemp sheds dim light on Middle East" by Jim Shelley, www.mirror.co.uk. January 4, 2010.

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• Israel itself is the strongest guarantee against another Holocaust.

  Golda Meir

  Holocaust, Guarantees, Strongest

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• The State of Israel will prove itself not by material wealth, not by military might or technical achievement, but by its moral character and human values.

  David Ben-Gurion

  Military, Character, Achievement

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• No nation in the world has so many drastic problems squeezed into so small a space, under such urgent pressure of time and heavy burden of history, as Israel.

  Barbara Tuchman

  Space, World, Pressure

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• It is my considered opinion that the State of Israel is a racist state in the full meaning of this term: In this state people are discriminated against, in the most permanent and legal way and in the most important areas of life, only because of their origin. This racist discrimination began in Zionism and is carried out today mainly in co-operation with the institutions of the Zionist movement.

  Israel Shahak

  People, Important, Racist

  "The Racist Nature of Zionism and of the Zionist State of Israel", the student newspaper of Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Pi-Ha'aton, November 5, 1975.

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• One can criticize the Israeli government, but it is not fair to judge the people of Israel.

  Antonio Munoz Molina

  Government, People, Judging

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• We are awaiting aggression by Israel and any supporters of Israel. We will make it a decisive battle and get rid of Israel once and for all... This is the dream of every Arab.

  Gamal Abdel Nasser

  Dream, Battle, Aggression

  Washington Post, July 27, 1959.

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• Israel is much worse than the original apartheid state.

  Clare Short

  States, Apartheid, Originals

  "The Israel-Bashing Club" by Daniel Schwammenthal, www.wsj.com. September 03, 2007.

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• [Israel] undermines the international community's reaction to global warming.

  Clare Short

  Community, Global Warming, Reactions

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• We got a leader in Iran who has announced that he wants to destroy Israel. So I've told people that if you're interested in avoiding World War III, it seems like you ought to be interested in preventing them from have the knowledge necessary to make a nuclear weapon.

  George W. Bush

  War, Iran, People

  "Sen. Lieberman Backs U.S. Action Against Iran". Interview with Robert Siegel, www.npr.org. November 2, 2007.

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• From what cause the rite of baptism first proceeded is not expressed formally in the scripture, but it may be probably thought to be an imitation of the law of Moses concerning leprosy, wherein the leprous man was commanded to be kept out of the camp of Israel for a certain time, after which time being judged by the priest to be clean, he was admitted into the camp after a solemn washing. And this may therefore be a type of the washing in baptism, wherein such men as are cleansed of the leprosy of Sin by Faith, are received into the church with the solemnity of baptism.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Men, Law, Baptism

  Thomas Hobbes (2008). “Leviathan”, p.357, Simon and Schuster

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• Jerusalem will remain the capital of Israel, and it must remain undivided.

  Barack Obama

  Jerusalem

  Barack Obama (2008). “An American Story: The Speeches of Barack Obama : a Primer”, Independent Publishing Group

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• Israel, the Israelis, and the rest of the world have been brainwashed. They don't think of pre-1948, they have no idea Palestinians were in Israel, who we were before '48. As if we were born in 1948 according to them. They have no notion that we had a country, houses, rebelled against the Ottomans and the British. They think history in that region started in that moment.

  Elia Suleiman

  Country, Thinking, Ideas

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Israel is our friend, that we will assist in their security.

  Barack Obama

  Security

  "Obama says Clinton has foreign policy like Bush's" by Steve Holland, www.reuters.com. July 26, 2007.

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• The threat of mutually assured destruction worked for the United States during the Cold War because it had proved its willingness to drop nuclear bombs on enemy cities at the end of World War II. It might work less well for Israel, because the Israeli Air Force has never deliberately targeted a large civilian population center, and its leaders have said its morality would not permit it do so.

  Alan Dershowitz

  War, Air, Cities

  "Preemption: A Knife That Cuts Both Ways". Book by Alan Dershowitz, February 17, 2006.

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• Israel has gone mad. It's attacking, doing the same thing to the Palestinian and Lebanese people that they have criticised - and with reason - the Holocaust . But this is a new Holocaust.

  Hugo Chavez

  People, Mad, Holocaust

  "Venezuela 'to sever Israel ties'", news.bbc.co.uk. August 9, 2006.

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• And also to the alien, who is not of Thy people Israel, but comes from a distant land on account of Thy fame; for hearing of Thy great name and Thy strong hand, and Thine outstretched arm, he comes to this house to pray... do Thou listen in the heavens, the place where Thou dwellest, and perform all that the alien begs of Thee, so that all the peoples of the earth may know Thy name, to fear Thee like Thine own people Israel, and to know that Thy name is proclaimed over this house that I have built.

  Solomon

  Strong, Land, Names

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• What Kuwait did to the Palestinian people is worse than what has been done by Israel to Palestinians in the occupied territories.

  Yasser Arafat

  Kuwait, People, Done

  "The Palestinians, Alone" by Efraim Karsh, www.nytimes.com. August 1, 2010.

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• And as long as the world lasts, all who want to make progress in righteousness will come to Israel for inspiration, as to the people who have had the sense for righteousness most glowing and strongest; and in hearing and reading the words Israel has uttered for us, carers for conduct will find a glow and a force they could find nowhere else.

  Matthew Arnold

  Inspiration, Reading, Glowing

  Matthew Arnold (1968). “Complete Prose Works: Dissent and dogma”

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