Israel Quotes - Page 30

• My privilege as a white Jewish American in Israel is a major factor in getting me so much access to the key institutions of the Jewish state.

  Max Blumenthal

  Keys, White, Privilege

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I think we need to draw a contextual distinction between what the neo-fascists of Europe would like to do and what the state of Israel has done.

  Max Blumenthal

  Thinking, Europe, Done

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• [Barack] Obama has betrayed Israel, gutted the military, and apologized on ten world tours.

  Marco Rubio

  Military, World, Betrayed

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• President Ahmadinejad said that the Zionist state of Israel should no longer exist as a political entity. This has always been the policy of successive Iranian governments such as those of President Khatami and President Rafsanjani.

  Mohammad Marandi

  Government, Political, President

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• With the Israel stories, it was for me the most surprising way the title would fit in. I kept thinking about, for a lot of my Israeli characters, what it was like to inherit such a complicated and symbiotic relationship to America and to feel how tangled that is, and it's nothing that they chose to do themselves.

  Molly Antopol

  Character, Thinking, America

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The Israel stories were really hard for me to write, because I think that my book is very much about politics, but it isn't political. It really was important for me to not have a political agenda at all, because I have a hard time stomaching any political fiction that feels message-y.

  Molly Antopol

  Book, Writing, Hard Times

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I'm not Israeli and because I'm not a citizen, it doesn't matter how often I go there - I'm still not Israeli. There's this way I feel so close to so many people there, but I always feel like I'm staring through the glass. And in a way, having this really thin piece of glass between me and this place is incredibly useful for me as a writer, because I'm just so hyper-aware of it. I could take a walk in San Francisco and probably notice a third of the things that I would notice in Israel, because I'm just attuned to everything when I'm there.

  Molly Antopol

  Glasses, San Francisco, People

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I have never wanted to claim I know what is best for Israel.

  Jill Soloway

  Claims, Wanted, Knows

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I haven't made art about Israel. There's a covert subtext of Jewish identity in my artwork.

  Jill Soloway

  Art, Jewish Identity, Made

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Israel, in terms of Jewish values, and what I have been reading in Jewish papers, and hear from Jewish around the country, they are upset about Donald Trump.

  Juan Williams

  Country, Reading, Jewish Values

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• I don't think you have an anti-Israel background when it comes to Donald Trump.

  Brian Kilmeade

  Thinking, Trump, Backgrounds

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• If the people of the Middle East are not sure what democracy means, let them look to Israel.

  Hillary Clinton

  Mean, People, Democracy

  Hillary Clinton's Hanukkah dinner speech at Yeshiva University, December 2005.

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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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• 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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• 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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• It's not a matter of rejection (of Israel's existence). Israel is here, present by power.

  Mahmoud al-Zahar

  Rejection, Matter, Existence

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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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• As for America and the rest of European world, I want to live in a nation that reflects my traditions and values, and I do not want my people to become a minority in the nations my own forefathers built. Interestingly, that is same goal that most Israelis and most Jews who support Israel endorse for the Jewish state.

  David Duke

  America, People, Goal

  "David Duke Answers a Jewish Reader" by David Duke, davidduke.com. January 20, 2005.

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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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• Our enemies are followers of a totalitarian ideology based on Islam, which tells them that Allah wishes to rule the world through them. Israel is a central front in this war. Given the weakness of Western support for the Jews, jihadists see attacking Israel as a strategic tool for eroding the West's ideological defenses and shoring up their supporters throughout the world.

  Caroline Glick

  War, Support, Enemy

  "Live From NY’s 92nd Street Y Continues". Vail Daily Article, www.vaildaily.com. October 07, 2007.

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• Good news from France, where the man picked by Nicolas Sarkozy as his foreign minister is not the execrable Hubert Védrine, but Bernard Kouchner - a socialist who supports Israel and the invasion of Iraq.

  Charles Foster Johnson

  Men, Iraq, Support

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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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• Hamas hides among unwitting civilians, who have no way of controlling its activities. This fact does not give Israel the right to kill innocent non-combatants, not even unintentionally. Besides, murder is not "unintentional" when you know it is inevitable.

  Ilana Mercer

  Giving, Doe, Way

  "Standing Armies Commandeered by Cowards". www.ilanamercer.com. November 23, 2012.

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• Behold, when I come unto the children of Israel, and shall say unto them, The God of your fathers hath sent me unto you; and they shall say to me, What is his name? what shall I say unto them?

  Moses

  Children, Father, Names

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• The Palestinians are a despotic, undemocratic grouping which promotes a religious war against Israel, a democracy, through terror.

  Melanie Phillips

  Religious, War, Democracy

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