Israel Quotes - Page 28

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

  Ron Paul

  War, Iran, Congress

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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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• I invite President Assad to come to Jerusalem and to speak with me, with our parliament, with whomever he wants to speak in Israel and in the territories among the Palestinians.

  Yitzhak Rabin

  President, Jerusalem, Want

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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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• 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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• Israel is a very young country, a cultural melting pot, and unlike the structured life of the Orthodox Jews, I grew up in a non-religious part of society where people were totally open to new experiences on many levels. I learned that when things are missing, you invent them.

  Noma Bar

  Country, Religious, New Experiences

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• We are in a period called post. In previous periods, anti-Semitism was always direct. Today's anti-Semitism isn't direct. If you say today that the Jews are absolute evil, or Israel is absolute evil, you must say Israeli is committing genocide against the Palestinians. It is very rare to find a Western politician who repeats these things.

  Manfred Gerstenfeld

  Evil, Today, Politician

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• The NGOs in Israel should devote more time to monitoring religious anti-Israel groups, chief among them the so-called "Christian Palestinianists."

  Manfred Gerstenfeld

  Christian, Religious, Groups

  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 controls the United States Senate.

  J. William Fulbright

  United States, Senate, States

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• I expect to see the day when the Elders of Israel will protect and sustain civil and religious liberty and every Constitutional right bequeathed to us by our fathers, and spread these rights abroad in connection with the Gospel for the salvation of all nations. I shall see this whether I live or die.

  Brigham Young

  Religious, Father, Rights

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• It's hard to find an emblem of cultural, national pride that burns as bright as Israel's success in classical music.

  Zubin Mehta

  Pride, Classical Music, Emblems

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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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• Public opinion in Egypt is very antagonistic to the way the dictatorship, Mubarak dictatorship, interpreted relations with Israel. Very antagonistic.

  Noam Chomsky

  Egypt, Public Opinion, Way

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• The president who is most slandered as Hitler will probably prove to be the most zealous advocate of democratic government abroad, the staunchest friend of beleaguered Israel, and the greatest promoter of global individual freedom in our recent memory.

  Victor Davis Hanson

  Memories, Government, President

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• I feel terrible for a Palestinian child who dies. But, if it's your father, your brother or your uncle who was firing those rockets into Israel, whose fault is it really? Do you really expect the Israelis not to retaliate?

  Bill Maher

  Brother, Uncles, Children

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• Italy was a surprise in my life. I went there just to make money and then go back to Israel and study psychology. The arts wasn't something I grew up with or thought I could be part of.

  Moran Atias

  Art, Psychology, Study

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• It's utterly hypocritical for Israelis to wonder aloud why Palestinians don't pursue a non-violent strategy. One obvious reason is that, whenever they have, Israel brutally represses it.

  Norman Finkelstein

  Wonder, Strategy, Reason

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• Iran, Ireland, Israel. That's three countries, four religions that HATE each other. Way to go, 'I'.

  Jon Stewart

  Country, Hate, Iran

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• ...Now since you are celebrating the holy Pascha, you should know, brethren, what the Pascha is. Pascha means the crossing-over, and so the Festival is called by this name. For it was on this day that the Children of Israel crossed over out of Egypt, and the Son of God crossed over from this world to His Father. What gain is it to celebrate unless you imitate Him Whom you worship; that is, unless you cross over from Egypt, that is, from the darkness of evildoing to the light of virtue, from the love of this world to the love of your heavenly home?

  Ambrose

  Children, Father, Mean

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• While Israel is prepared to make generous compromises for peace, it cannot go back to the 1967 lines...

  Benjamin Netanyahu

  Lines, Compromise, Prepared

  "US Israel talks on Palestine". "AM" with Jane Cowan, www.abc.net.au. May 21, 2011.

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• Moses simplifies the whole duty of Israel (and of humanity) by crystalizing the moral law into a single command to love God supremely.

  Max Anders

  Law, Humanity, Moral

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• Although their parents died in the wilderness for their stubbornness, Israel could profit from the older generation's failure by remembering that God had used adversity to train them.

  Max Anders

  Adversity, Parent, Generations

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• In Deuteronomy 11, God offers Israel a choice; either a life of productivity and enjoyment made possible by obedience to Him, or a life of difficulty and opposition made necessary by disobedience. The happiness Israel desires can only be theirs by being properly related to Him.

  Max Anders

  Choices, Desire, Obedience

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