Israel Quotes - Page 31

• The State of Israel will prove itself not by material wealth, not by military might or technical achievement, but by its moral character and human values.

  David Ben-Gurion

  Military, Character, Achievement

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• 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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• No amount of money given in charity, nothing but the abandonment of this hateful trade, can atone for this great sin against God, Israel and Humanity.

  Hermann Adler

  Humanity, Charity, Hateful

  "The Pentateuch and Haftorahs" by Joseph H. Hertz, p. 849, (One-volume edition), 1937.

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• One can criticize the Israeli government, but it is not fair to judge the people of Israel.

  Antonio Munoz Molina

  Government, People, Judging

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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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• I prophesy in the name of the Lord God of Israel, unless the United States redress the wrongs committed upon the Saints in the state of Missouri and punish the crimes committed by her officers that in a few years the government will be utterly overthrown and wasted, and there will not be so much as a potsherd left . . .

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  Government, Years, Names

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• As the profoundest philosophy of ancient Rome and Greece lighted her taper at Israel's altar, so the sweetest strains of the pagan muse were swept from harps attuned on Zion's hill.

  Edward Thomson

  Bible, Philosophy, Zion

  Edward Thomson (1856). “Essays, moral and religious”, p.35

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• And that's how show business is like in Israel - it's very, very small. It kind of feels like a high school environment, you know? Everyone knows everyone and if you come to Israel for a month, you'll meet half of the actors on different occasions - not to mention in the doctors office!

  Meital Dohan

  School, Doctors, Office

  Interview with Anthony Statler, www.bullz-eye.com. November 16, 2009.

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• However, obviously Israel is a much smaller place in terms of population. There are only 6 million people in Israel, where there might be 6 million people in one city in America.

  Meital Dohan

  Cities, America, People

  Interview with Anthony Statler, www.bullz-eye.com. November 16, 2009.

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• I'm not trying to defend Israel. What I'm telling my nation is that Israel is just like any other state, and I want them to get out of the illusion that Jewish people are evil, and that all they want is to kill Muslims and Palestinians. I want them to understand that their biggest problem is not Israel.

  Mosab Hassan Yousef

  People, Evil, Trying

  "Son of Hamas". GQ interview, www.gq.com. March 11, 2010.

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• My dream for Israel is peace, external and internal peace.

  Amos Oz

  Dream, Internal Peace, Internals

  "'Everybody comes from somewhere.' An Interview with Writer Amos Oz". Interview with Prashanth Ramakrishna, logger.believermag.com. October 20, 2016.

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• Instead of ending U.S. military aid to the 23rd wealthiest country to use for its consistent violations of international law and human rights, we see the Obama administration escalating the annual amount of aid, so that Israel will now start each year with almost $4 billion, with $3.8 billion a year of military aid coming from our tax money to support its military, without any restrictions on how it makes - how it uses that money, what weapons in the U.S. it's able to buy.

  Phyllis Bennis

  Country, Military, Rights

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Israel has military capabilities including nuclear weapons, far surpassing any other power in the Middle East, but it's a small country. The rest of the Middle Eastern peoples are Muslim and Israelis are not, so it is hardly in any position to become the leading power.

  Samuel P. Huntington

  Country, Military, Middle East

  Interview with Amina Chaudary, www.theislamicmonthly.com. 2006.

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• It is different [to perform in Israel] because it arises from very deep wells of affiliation.

  Leonard Cohen

  Different, Affiliation, Arise

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• I visited the Ethiopian National Project which was created by the government to fully integrate Ethiopian Jews into Israel's society. They're still facing a lot of challenges with poverty, unemployment but the Ethiopian National Project is really doing an extraordinary job in empowering the Ethiopian community to be successful.

  Cory Booker

  Jobs, Successful, Government

  "Jewish Insider's Daily Kickoff". Jewish Insider Interview, www.haaretz.com. August 30, 2016.

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• Israel wants to make it clear to the government of Egypt that it has no aggressive intentions whatsoever against any Arab state at all

  Levi Eshkol

  War, Government, Egypt

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• Israel has the best engineers in the world... I view Israel as a tremendous source of technologies

  Douglas H. Bosco

  Technology, Views, World

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• Israel is the second Silicon Valley, and it is therefore the only other place we have chosen to expand our activities.

  Michael Moritz

  Valleys, Economy, Chosen

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• We believe in the fundamental strength of Israel's economy and have confidence in its long-term potential.

  Ari Fleischer

  Believe, Long, Fundamentals

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• If we pulled out of Iraq tomorrow, Islamic jihadism is on the rise. And they continue, as we see in Lebanon, to seek to destroy the State of Israel and seek to drive America back and bring us to our knees. We must stand tall and straight.

  Zach Wamp

  Islamic, Iraq, America

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• Ignorance of God's prophetic outline, failure to know God's program for the Church, the nations, and Israel, is the cause of the overwhelming amount of error and misunderstanding of the events of the future.

  M. R. DeHaan

  Ignorance, Errors, Church

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