Israel Quotes - Page 22

• I covered the first Gulf War in Saudi Arabia and Israel for ABC News.

  Leslie Cockburn

  War, Firsts, Arabia

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• I'm not trying to convert the entire nation of Israel and the entire nation of Palestine to Christianity. But at least if you can educate them about the ideology of love, the ideology of forgiveness, the ideology of grace. Those principles are great regardless, but we can't deny they came from Christianity as well.

  Mosab Hassan Yousef

  Grace, Trying, Principles

  "'They Need to Be Liberated From Their God'". Interview with Matthew Kaminski, www.realclearpolitics.com. March 7, 2010.

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• If Hamas continues to threaten the security of the state of Israel, I believe Israel has the ability and the capacity to control the borders and cut off the weapons supply.

  Mosab Hassan Yousef

  Believe, Cutting, Borders

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• Our basic objective will be the destruction of Israel. The Arab people want to fight.

  Gamal Abdel Nasser

  Fighting, People, Want

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• I am in hell already. I am in Israel.

  Al Sharpton

  Hell

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• If Iran invaded Israel, it's up to Congress to declare war.

  Ron Paul

  War, Iran, Congress

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• The US and Israel have demanded further that Palestinians not only recognize Israel's rights as a state in the international system, but that they also recognize Israel's abstract right to exist, a concept that has no place in international law or diplomacy, and a right claimed by no one. In effect, the US and Israel are demanding that Palestinians . . . formally accept the legitimacy of their expulsion from their own land. They cannot be expected to accept that, just as Mexico does not grant the US the right to exist on half of Mexico's territory, gained by conquest.

  Noam Chomsky

  Law, Land, Rights

  "On Israel, the US and Turkey". Interview with Sabahattin Atas, chomsky.info. September, 2003.

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• For me, Jerusalem was united, will be under Israel sovereignty, will be the capital of Israel and the heart of the Jewish people.

  Yitzhak Rabin

  Heart, People, Jerusalem

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• What I, as the prime minister of the present government of Israel, started to do, is first to tackle the longest part of the Arab-Israeli conflict, the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.

  Yitzhak Rabin

  Government, Firsts, Conflict

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• Steps toward a rapprochement between Israel and the Arab states create a process that turns economics into the moving force that shapes the regional relations instead of nationalist interests that were dominant in the past.

  Yitzhak Rabin

  Moving, Past, Shapes

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• Vis a vis the Golan Heights, the present government of Israel, under my leadership, is the first government that is ready to speak about a withdrawal.

  Yitzhak Rabin

  Government, Withdrawal, Height

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• We appreciate the efforts of the United States, of the president, of the secretary of state, and we are ready to find any form of talks, but we have to overcome the differences between Syria and Israel to reach peace.

  Yitzhak Rabin

  Differences, Appreciate, Effort

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• While the Passover narrative [in Exodus] energizes Israel's imagination toward justice, Israel's hard work of implementation of that imaginative scenario was done at Mt. Sinai. . . . Moses' difficult work at Sinai is to transform the narrative vision of the Exodus into a sustainable social practice that has institutional staying-power, credibility, and authority.

  Walter Brueggemann

  Hard Work, Difficult Work, Practice

  Walter Brueggemann (1999). “The Covenanted Self: Explorations in Law and Covenant”, p.49, Fortress Press

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• The heart and mind of every Muslim is affected by whether or not the Israel-Palestine issue is dealt with fairly.

  Jimmy Carter

  Heart, Issues, Mind

  "Jimmy Carter takes on Israel’s Apartheid Policies and the Pro-Israeli Lobby in the US". Interview with Nathan Gardels, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 12, 2006.

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• It is my strong belief that Israel has not just the right but the obligation to protect itself.

  Barack Obama

  Strong, Belief, Protect

  Remarks by President Obama and Prime Minister Netanyahu of Israel Before Bilateral Meeting, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. November 9, 2015.

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• I don't think that anyone should doubt Israel's determination to defend itself against terror and destruction.

  Benjamin Netanyahu

  Determination, Thinking, Doubt

  Remarks by President Obama and Prime Minister Netanyahu of Israel Before Bilateral Meeting, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. November 9, 2015.

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• The Arab countries in the Middle East have for decades demonized Israel, to Western leadership, which for reasons not entirely clear, listen to them politely. The Bush Administration, for example, was infiltrated by the Muslim Brotherhood years before Obama began mainstreaming them and allowing them to have positions of influence within the White House.

  Manfred Gerstenfeld

  Country, Years, White

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• Protestants are the more segmented group. Mainline churches - you have problems in the U.S., Europe, the Scottish Church, the Dutch Protestant Church, the state church in Norway. The evangelicals have been pro Israel, but a major effort is to bring them in on the Palestinian side. A huge problem and the problems are rising.

  Manfred Gerstenfeld

  Europe, Effort, Church

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• Media turned against Israel was a gradual process. And it has gotten worse over the years. I think the main development was the 1982 Lebanon War.

  Manfred Gerstenfeld

  War, Thinking, Media

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• Israel is the largest American aircraft carrier in the world that cannot be sunk, does not carry even one American soldier, and is located in a critical region for American national security.

  Alexander Haig

  Soldier, Doe, Aircraft Carriers

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• My family moved to Israel when I was eight until I was 10, and then we came back, and my parents split up. I was suddenly in a single-parent home and on scholarship. Fifth grade was such a hard year for me.

  Natasha Lyonne

  Home, Eight, Years

  "Fabulous Friends". Interview with Chloe Sevigny, www.harpersbazaar.com. May 22, 2014.

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• To travel only a few blocks in his own homeland, an elderly grandfather waits to beg for the whim of a teenage soldier. More than an emergency is required to get to a hospital; less than a crime earns a trip to jail.
  
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  The lucky ones have a permit to leave their squalor to work in the cities, but luck runs out when security closes all checkpoints, paralyzing an entire people. The indignities, dependence and anger are all too familiar.

  Desmond Tutu

  Running, Teenage, Block

  "An international campaign : Build moral pressure to end the occupation" by Desmond Tutu, www.nytimes.com. June 14, 2002.

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• I came to Paul at quite an early age, having already studied Plato and Aristotle; and I found Paul easily their intellectual equal, though he was handling these amazing questions about God, Jesus, Israel, faith and so on. He continues to be an amazingly stimulating thinker, especially when we try to understand the flow of thought in letter after letter rather than just combing him for a few verses on 'our favourite topics', which, sadly, some Christian teachers do just as some journalists and broadcasters do!

  N. T. Wright

  Christian, Teacher, Jesus

  Source: kenwytsma.com

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• The history of Israel is divided into two parts. One, under attack that we have had to defend ourselves. When you defend yourself your thinking is totally different from when you want to make peace. So under attack you behave like if you want a hawk, when peace comes you become a dove.

  Shimon Peres

  Thinking, Two, Different

  Source: www.theguardian.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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