Israel Quotes - Page 16

• I see a sequence of seven main phases: creation,revolution or exodus (Israel in Egypt), law, wisdom, prophecy, gospel, and apocalypse.

  Northrop Frye

  Egypt, Law, Phases

  Northrop Frye, Alvin A. Lee (2006). “The Great Code: The Bible and Literature”, p.126, University of Toronto Press

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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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• When Israel, of the Lord belov'd, Out of the land of bondage came, Her fathers' God before her mov'd, An awful guide in smoke and flame.

  Walter Scott

  Father, Flames, Land

  Walter Scott (1862). “Ivanhoe: A Romance”, p.326

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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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• Today the Israeli government continues seizures of Palestinian land for settlements, military incursions into surrounding countries and denial of the right of Palestinians expelled by terror to return. Ariel Sharon, Israel's prime minister, is a war criminal who should be in prison, not in office. Israel's own Kahan commission found that Sharon shared responsibility for the Sabra and Shatila massacres.

  Ken Livingstone

  Country, Military, War

  "This is about Israel, not anti-semitism" by Ken Livingstone, www.theguardian.com. March 4, 2005.

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• In the name of Israel's God, if every man would do right, and when he has done what he knows is right, then stops till he knows what next, there never would be a jar in the camp. And I defy the man to come forward that ever led so large a people in such difficult and trying circumstances, in so much peace, as I have led this people during this campaign, with the help of God and my brethren.

  Brigham Young

  Men, Names, People

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• We shall never stop until we can go back home and Israel is destroyed... The goal of our struggle is the end of Israel, and there can be no compromises or mediations... the goal of this violence is the elimination of Zionism from Palestine in all its political, economic and military aspects... We don't want peace, we want victory. Peace for us means Israel's destruction and nothing else.

  Yasser Arafat

  Military, Struggle, Home

  The Washington Post, March 29, 1970.

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• To be an actor in the society in Israel, you have to be ten times better than the Israeli Jews. To get the roles in mainstream theater or to get any role, not typecast as an Arab. And also if you are ten times better, not all the time you get the opportunity.

  Ali Suliman

  Opportunity, Actors, Roles

  "Charisma Personified: Meeting Ali Suliman at the Abu Dhabi Film Festival". Interview with E. Nina Rothe, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 15, 2014.

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• Unless the Arab states give Israel formal recognition, within secure, recognised and mutually agreed boundaries, as a permanent feature of the geography and politics of the Middle East. But if Israel is to obtain this recognition, she must, in a settlement, put an end to the territorial occupation which she has maintained since the war of 1967; the nine members of the European Community have declared that this is an essential element in a settlement. On behalf of the British Government I underline that need today.

  Anthony Crosland

  War, Government, Giving

  Speech to the UN General Assembly, October 5, 1976.

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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 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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• 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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• 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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• As a Palestinian today I speak of a Palestinian and Arab demand for a state on 1967 borders. It is true that in reality there will be an entity or a state called Israel on the rest of Palestinian land. This is reality but I don’t deal with it from the point of view of recognizing or admitting it.

  Khaled Mashal

  Reality, Land, Borders

  "Q&A with Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal". Reuters Intervie, www.reuters.com. January 21, 2007.

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• If world is suspicious that Israel may detonate nuclear bomb and if the suspicion is a deterrent - that's good enough.

  Shimon Peres

  Nuclear, Bombs, World

  "Peres: Suspicion over Israeli nukes is good deterrent" by Ronny Sofer, www.ynetnews.com. September 1, 20070.

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• Israel must remove the two blue stripes from its national flag. The stripes on the flag are symbols of occupation. They signify Israel's borders stretching from the River Euphrates to the River Nile.

  Mahmoud al-Zahar

  Blue, Two, Rivers

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• I am familiar with what goes on in the Arab countries, and I'm sad to say that most of us want to annihilate Israel. We want to kill all the Israelis... Do you know what they used to say in the mosques in Egypt? "We want to go to the White House and turn it into the Islamic House..." We call upon the Arab countries to stop teaching hatred to the Arab children.

  Nonie Darwish

  Country, Children, Teaching

  "We Must Begin to View the Jews in a Forgiving Light". Middle East Media Research Institute, March 2007.

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• One of the greatest problems for international journalists covering the Middle East is that people who serve as guides for journalists are often affiliated with Islamic terrorists seeking to turn for foreign visitors against Israel.

  Caroline Glick

  Islamic, People, Middle East

  "Live from NY’s 92nd Street Y Continues". www.vaildaily.com. October 07, 2007.

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• It was one of the most memorable experiences of my life. I got to see firsthand the sacrifices that Israelis make in the name of security because of the dangerous state of affairs there. I will always be a strong supporter of Israel.

  Gabrielle Giffords

  Strong, Memorable, Sacrifice

  "Jewish US Lawmaker Gabrielle Giffords Shot, Prognosis Optimistic". www.israelnationalnews.com. January 08, 2011.

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• Critics of the war plans (including myself) have pointed to the disastrous political results that must be expected: Iraq would break into three parts (Kurds in the north, Sunnis in the center, Shi'ites in the south), the Middle East would be exposed to the onslaught of Iranian fanaticism, pro-Western Arab regimes would collapse. Israel would be surrounded by aggressive Islamic fundamentalism, like the Crusader kingdom with the advent of Saladin.

  Uri Avnery

  War, Islamic, Iraq

  "War Now!" by Uri Avnery, September 9, 2002.

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• Until the Yom Kippur War, in 1973, until then Israel didn't have a chance but to fight for her life. We were attacked five times, outgunned, outnumbered, on a small piece of land, and our main challenge was to remain alive.

  Shimon Peres

  War, Fighting, Land

  Shimon Peres' speech at Harvard University, October 20, 2004.

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• I thanked the President [George W. Bush] for the steadfastness and resolve with which he's tackling the very complicated problems in the Middle East and Iraq, as well as the Israel-Palestinian issue.... It's critical for us in Southeast Asia that America does that.... because it affects America's standing in Asia and the world, and also the security environment in Asia because extremists, the jihadists, watch carefully what's happening in the Middle East and take heart, or lose heart, depending on what's happening.

  Lee Hsien Loong

  Heart, Iraq, America

  "President Bush Welcomes Prime Minister Lee of Singapore to the White House". The White House Press Release, georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov. May 04, 2007.

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• The answer is to let Israel say it will recognize a Palestinian state along the 1967 borders, release the prisoners and recognize the rights of the refugees to return to Israel. Hamas will have a position if this occurs.

  Ismail Haniyeh

  Rights, Borders, Answers

  "'We Do Not Wish to Throw Them Into the Sea'". www.washingtonpost.com. February 26, 2006.

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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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• The whole history of Israel, its ritual and its government, is explicable only as it is typical of the spiritual Israel, of the sacrifice on Calvary, of the precious blood which alone can wash away sin.

  Abbott Eliot Kittredge

  Spiritual, Sacrifice, Blood

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 69, 1895.

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