Israel Quotes - Page 18

• 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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• I have absolute respect for Israel and people in Israel who are critical of their own country.

  Antonio Munoz Molina

  Country, People, Critical

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• Those who adhere to the ideology of rejecting Israel’s right to exist, they might as well reject the earth beneath them or the sky above, because Israel is not going anywhere.

  Barack Obama

  Sky, Earth, Might

  Barack Obama's Speech To the People of Israel at the Jerusalem International Convention Center, Jerusalem, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. March 21, 2013.

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• I feel ashamed that the new, nuclear, neo-liberal India thinks of itself as a 'natural ally' of Israel. Ever since India began to call itself an emerging superpower, it has become a slavish, groveling satellite state of the US.

  Arundhati Roy

  Thinking, Allies, India

  Source: www.soldefter.com

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• The American administration is trying to achieve any gain in the shadow of the embarrassment hitting it because of its failures in Iraq, Afghanistan and Palestine after the failure of Israel's war on Lebanon and the retreat of America's project in the region.

  Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah

  War, Iraq, America

  "Senior Shiite Cleric Says U.S. Desperate". Forbes, August 7, 2007.

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• You should make the world understand that Israel is the oppressor and that Israel must be destroyed.

  Ali Meshkini

  World, Should, Oppressors

  "Nuclear Weapons - Iranian Statements", www.globalsecurity.org. December 14, 2001.

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• Sharona Muir has written a gripping personal memoir about her odyssey to rediscover and reclaim her father. Along the way she uncovers some hard truths about the heroic founders of Israel and the Beginnings of Israeli science. The Book of Telling keeps in all the fears and resentments and consolations and warmth of such a process-at once her own story and the tale of a nation.

  Edmund White

  Father, Book, Way

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• the life of Jesus recapitulates key elements in the earlier story of Israel. For a moment, as Jesus stands on the mountain giving the famous sermon, he is Moses. For a moment, answering his critics about his actions on the sabbath, he is David. For a moment, as he calls and names the twelve disciples, he is perhaps Jacob, bringing the twelve patriarchs into the world. For a moment, healing the sick and raising the dead, he is Elijah or Elisha. And so on. In the transfiguration he actually meets Moses and Elijah.

  N. T. Wright

  Jesus, Healing, Names

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• I think that anyone who moves to establish a Palestinian state and evacuate territory gives territory away to radical Islamist attacks against Israel.

  Benjamin Netanyahu

  Moving, Thinking, Giving

  "Netanyahu: If I'm Elected, There Will Be No Palestinian State". www.haaretz.com. March 16, 2015.

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• If there will be a serious Palestinian prime minister who makes a 100 percent effort to end terrorism, then we can have peace. Each side has to take steps. If terror continues, there will not be an independent Palestinian state. Israel will not accept it, if terror continues.

  Ariel Sharon

  Independent, Effort, Sides

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• The security of the citizens of Israel, the future of the state of Israel, this is the Israeli governments responsibility.

  Avigdor Lieberman

  Responsibility, Government, Citizens

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• Since Israel is a democratic state surrounded by essentially undemocratic states which have sworn her destruction, those interested in democracy everywhere must support Israel's existence.

  Bayard Rustin

  Support, Democracy, Destruction

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• The God of Israel is sometimes a God who hides Himself, but never a God who absents Himself; sometimes in the dark, but never at a distance.

  Matthew Henry

  Distance, Dark, Sometimes

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• At the United Nations, a lynch mob for Israel is always just a moment away.

  Elliott Abrams

  Moments, United Nations, United

  "Joining the Jackals". www.weeklystandard.com. June 2, 2010.

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• Hamas says in its charter they want to see a world without Israel. They want to obliterate Israel.

  Ileana Ros-Lehtinen

  World, Want, Charter

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• The entire world is focusing on the compromises that are necessary from Israel's side. But people [in the world] are not focusing on the fact that the Palestinians refuse to make the necessary compromises that are required on their side for peace.

  Benjamin Netanyahu

  People, World, Facts

  Source: piersmorgan.blogs.cnn.com

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• The instability in the region is not a result of Israel and the Palestinians. That was never the cause of this instability. Instead, the disfunctionality of many of these societies that have failed to modernize.

  Benjamin Netanyahu

  Causes, Results, Palestinian

  Source: piersmorgan.blogs.cnn.com

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• There is a structural difference between the way that Europe views Israel, and America views Israel. The European view is informed by the importance of colonialism in Europe's past. So for Europeans we are like Belgiums in the Congo, or the French in Alger, or the British in India. Strange interlopers in somebody else's land. But in fact, we [Israeli] have been here for 4,000 years. This is our ancestral homeland.

  Benjamin Netanyahu

  Past, Years, Europe

  Source: piersmorgan.blogs.cnn.com

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• If I have to reduce all of the laws of war into a single sentence, it is this. You divide the world into two, combatants and noncombatants. You can attack deliberately combatants, but not deliberately noncombatants. Israel acts that way. It attacks combatants and accidentally kills noncombatants. But in the case of the terrorists, it's the exact opposite. They deliberately attack combatants - noncombatants, civilians, deliberately.

  Benjamin Netanyahu

  War, Law, Opposites

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• What I was doing was servicing the needs of my constituents and I was not allowed to do that because I did not toe the line on U.S. policy for Israel.

  Cynthia McKinney

  Needs, Lines, Toes

  "Cynthia McKinney Blasts U.S. on Libya TV, and Pro-Israel Groups in Iran". www.theatlantic.com. May 23, 2011.

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• Obama repeatedly has condemned Hamas as a terrorist organization that should be isolated until it renounces violence and recognizes Israel.

  Aaron Klein

  Organization, Violence, Renounce

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• The battle would not take place in the mountains, valleys, or plains of Israel.  It would take place in the wilderness of the human heart.

  Francine Rivers

  Heart, Battle, Mountain

  Francine Rivers (2012). “A Lineage of Grace”, p.322, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• I am quite international. My background, born in Turkey. My family is a Jewish family from Iran, so I went from Turkey to Iran to Israel, and then grew up in Italy and ended up in U.S. for graduate school. So I tend to look at things from an international perspective, and I think that gives you a little bit of a broader view of what's going on.

  Nouriel Roubini

  School, Thinking, Views

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• Like crime, terrorism is a fact of life. I grew up in Israel, where every unattended bag was a suspected bomb; when my family moved for a few years, it was to London in the early years of the Troubles.

  Yochai Benkler

  Years, Facts, Bags

  "Manning and Snowden light path for the US to return to its better self" by Yochai Benkler, www.theguardian.com. July 26, 2013.

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• The holiness of the kingdom of God must be preserved. If Jesus refused to acknowledge and fight for Israel as God's favored nation- even though it was the one nation in history that actually held this status at one time- how much more must his followers refuse to acknowledge and fight for America as God's favored nation" To say it another way, if Jesus was committed solely to establishing a kingdom that had no intrinsic nationalistic or ethnic allegiances- not even with Israel- how much more should his followers be committed to expanding this unique, non-nationalistic kingdom?

  Gregory A. Boyd

  Jesus, Fighting, Unique

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