Israel Quotes - Page 27

• This decree is very serious and we will not allow it to pass unopposed. (on Israel offers 10-month West Bank settlement freeze)

  Uri Orbach

  Months, West, Serious

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• Israel has been extremely aggressive, they have continued with their settlement policies, they have continued demolitions, they have continued with their occupation policies which entail a humiliation of Palestinians, which makes the (peace) process difficult.

  Margot Wallstrom

  Peace, Occupation, Demolition

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• There won't be a Palestinian state within Israel.

  Naftali Bennett

  States, Palestinian

  "Naftali Bennett interview: 'There won't be a Palestinian state within Israel'". Interview with Harriet Sherwood, www.theguardian.com. January 7, 2013.

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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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• Palestinians are becoming religiously fanatic. Israel is becoming irrelevant. They do it for religious purpose, fanatic, they want to conquer the Middle East under the command of the Iranians.

  Shimon Peres

  Religious, Middle East, Purpose

  Source: www.sbs.com.au

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• We turned our back on Israel, our ally. You know, and a situation like that, of course [Barack]Obama's not going to be able to do anything. I would shore up our military first, because if you don't get the military right, nothing else is going to work.

  Benjamin Carson

  Military, Allies, Able

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• I don't disagree with Senator Paul's position that we shouldn't be funding our enemies. But I absolutely believe that Israel is a priority to be able to fund and keep them strong and safe after eight years of this administration.

  Chris Christie

  Strong, Believe, Eight

  Chris Christie at GOP primary debate in Cleveland, Ohio, www.washingtonpost.com. August 6, 2015.

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• In the long term, Israel's security rests on only one pillar: the Palestinians' acceptance of the country. It isn't the atom bomb that makes Israel secure.

  Daniel Barenboim

  Country, Acceptance, Long

  "The Germans Are Prisoners of Their Past". Interview with Joachim Kronsbein and Bernhard Zand, www.spiegel.de. June 22, 2012.

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• There are probably many people in Israel who believe that Wagner, who died in 1883, lived in Berlin in 1942 and was friends with Hitler.

  Daniel Barenboim

  Believe, People, Berlin

  Interview with Joachim Kronsbein and Bernhard Zand, www.spiegel.de. June 22, 2012.

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• In a place like Israel, they're very concerned with Iran, so there's a lot of interest. So they want to see what this Iranian from France has to say in her comics. I guess that's good. My the books are coming out in other countries. And each time, they discover something different to be interested in.

  Marjane Satrapi

  Country, Book, Iran

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• Gaza is such a tremendous humanitarian problem, it's way beyond Israel's capability to do anything significant about. It's a world problem, but the world doesn't want to do anything about it. That the world has packed them like sardines in a tiny piece of territory run by a fanatic Islamic group, run by a fanatic group like Hamas. Unless the world decides it wants to tackle this problem, that they want to deal with refugees there, prepare to absorb some of the refugees.

  Moshe Arens

  Running, Islamic, Groups

  Source: www.middleeasteye.net

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• Well I haven't seen any free elections in the Arab world. They may be coming someday, except for in Israel. In Israel, Arabs have a chance to participate in free elections. Nowhere else really.

  Moshe Arens

  World, May, Chance

  Source: www.middleeasteye.net

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• I will insist that the Hebrews have done more to civilize man than any other nation.

  John Adams

  Men, Presidential, Done

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• The poor and needy search for water, but there is none; their tongues are parched with thirst. But I the LORD will answer them; I, the God of Israel, will not forsake them. I will make rivers flow on barren heights, and springs within the valleys. I will turn the desert into pools of water, and the parched ground into springs.

  Isaiah

  Spring, Rivers, Water

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• There is no truth which the prophets press more steadily upon Israel than that all their national life lies in the sight and on the care of God.

  George A. Smith

  Lying, Sight, Care

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• The question is no longer whether the United States should contribute to assuring Israel's survival and prosperity; that goes without saying.

  George Ball

  America, Survival, United States

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• I grew up in different orphanages in Israel, and if they gave me a pair of shoes, a shirt, and pair of pants every year, I was lucky. The rest was handouts, leftover clothes. So I appreciated clothes because I only had one new shirt each year.

  Elie Tahari

  Years, Shoes, Clothes

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• A number of people who have supported me on the border fence in the U.S. have observed the fences in Israel and their effectiveness.

  Duncan Hunter

  Effectiveness, Numbers, People

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• I do not whisper obscurities in some dark corner. I would not have told the people of Israel to seek me if I could not be found. I, the Lord, speak only what is true and declare only what is right.

  Isaiah

  Dark, People, Obscurity

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• Until 1956, America treated Israel not much differently from other friendly states.

  George Ball

  America, Friendly, States

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• Hey, here's a way to stop suicide bombings - give the Palestinians a bunch of missile-firing Apache helicopters and let them and the Israelis go at each other head to head. Four billion dollars a year to Israel - four billion dollars a year to the Palestinians - they can just blow each other up and leave the rest of us the hell alone.

  Michael Moore

  Suicide, Blow, Years

  "Dude, Where's My Country?". Book by Michael Moore, 2003.

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• Business of blurring is fantastic. They both are playing the politics of avoidance. They avoid all the issues on corporate power, Iraq, Palestine, Israel, so on and so forth. They avoid all those. That's the politics of avoidance. All the major issues that are so much on people's minds - health care, living wage, public works, jobs - they avoid.

  Ralph Nader

  Jobs, Iraq, Issues

  Interview with Gregg LaGambina, www.avclub.com. September 24, 2008.

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• Throughout our world the cry of the poor so often goes unheard. The prophets harangued Israel and Judah unceasingly about the powerless and marginalized, the overlooked widows, orphans, and "sojourners in our midst," who are still with us today as single mothers, hungry children, and helpless immigrants, wraiths invisible in our prosperous societies.

  Thomas Cahill

  Mother, Children, Our World

  Thomas Cahill (2010). “The Gifts of the Jews: How a Tribe of Desert Nomads Changed the Way Everyone Thinks and Feels”, p.252, Anchor

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• When I went to Israel, it was a little disorienting, because there are so many people who look crazy and were dressed like me. There, I was just one of the apocalyptic crowd.

  A. J. Jacobs

  Crazy, People, Looks

  Interview with Jason Albert, www.avclub.com. November 9, 2007.

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

  Leslie Cockburn

  War, Firsts, Arabia

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