Israeli Quotes - Page 11

• Unless and until something concrete is done about addressing the Israeli-Palestinian issue you won't get a real start on the war against terrorism.

  Bob Hawke

  Real, War, Issues

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I’m a United States senator. I’m not an Israeli senator.

  Chuck Hagel

  United States, Senators, States

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• The cartoonist’s task is not so much to be balanced as to give balance, particularly in situations of disproportionate power relationships such as we see in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

  Michael Leunig

  Giving, Balance, Tasks

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• The most important thing in the Land of Israel is to build, build, build. Its important that there will be an Israeli presence everywhere. Our principal problem is still Israels leaders unwillingness to say in a simple manner that the Land of Israel belongs to the People of Israel.

  Naftali Bennett

  Simple, Israel, Land

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• Only a few years ago did it suddenly dawn on me that my existential fear regarding my nation’s future and my moral outrage regarding my nation’s occupation policy are not unconnected. On the one hand, Israel is the only nation in the West that is occupying another people. On the other hand, Israel is the only nation in the West that is existentially threatened. Both occupation and intimidation make the Israeli condition unique. Intimidation and occupation have become the two pillars of our condition.

  Ari Shavit

  Unique, Hands, Years

  Ari Shavit (2013). “My Promised Land: The Triumph and Tragedy of Israel”, p.10, Spiegel & Grau

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• This rally must send a message to the Israeli people, to the Jewish people around the world, to the many people in the Arab world, and indeed to the entire world, that the Israeli people want peace, support peace. For this, I thank you.

  Yitzhak Rabin

  Israel, People, Support

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• The military operation in Lebanon was the most successful military operation in recent Israeli history. Many in Israel don't recognise that.

  Ehud Olmert

  Military, Successful, Israel

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• In fact, the Iraqi foreign minister admitted in March 2003 that Iraqi funds were sent to families of Palestinian suicide bombers who attacked and killed innocent Israeli citizens, and also 12 Americans in Israel in 2003.

  Jim Gerlach

  Suicide, Israel, Facts

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• I love meeting Israeli people. They look at me like a son

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Son, Israel, People

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• I can't tell you how much I appreciate these young [Israeli] designers. There's too much strife in the world. If we become united in our creativity, not only in what we wear, but what we do, we will change the world. It's truly an honor to be around such inspiration.

  Donna Karan

  Inspiration, Creativity, Israel

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• Israeli interests are not necessarily in harmony with the American interests.

  Bashar al-Assad

  Harmony, Interest

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• Moreover, resolving the mother of all problems - the Israeli-Palestinian question - requires cooperation between Europe and the U.S.

  Romano Prodi

  Mother, Europe, Cooperation

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• If there is a birthrate demographic problem, and there is, it is with the non-White races Israeli Arabs who are American will remain Israeli citizens.

  Benjamin Netanyahu

  Race, Ku Klux Klan, White

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• Vice-President Ford, possibly preparing for higher duties, assessed Kissinger's part in the Syrian-Israeli troop disengagement as "the great diplomatic triumph of this century or perhaps any other.

  Edwin Newman

  President, Vices, Triumph

  Edwin Newman (1974). “Strictly Speaking: Will america be the Death of English?”

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• They've (Israel) lost the battle for public opinion. They claim it's because American Jews know too little.. I claim it's because they know too much about the conflict, and young liberal Jews have difficulty defending the use of cluster bombs in Lebanon or supporting the Israeli settlements.

  Norman Finkelstein

  Knowledge, Israel, Battle

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• The Israeli-Palestinian conflict and Jihadism have nothing to do with each other.

  Steven Spielberg

  Arab Israeli Conflict, Palestinian, Conflict

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• The Israeli people must be free to live in peace and security.

  Chuck Hagel

  People, Peace And Security, Security

  Chuck Hagel, Charles Timothy Hagel (2008). “America: our next chapter : tough questions, straight answers”, Ecco Pr

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• I, serial number 30743, Lieutenant General in reserves Yitzhak Rabin, a soldier in the Israeli Defense Forces and in the army of peace, I, who have sent armies into fire and soldiers to their death, say today: We sail onto a war which has no casualties, no wounded, no blood nor suffering. It is the only war which is a pleasure to participate in - the war for peace.

  Yitzhak Rabin

  Peace, War, Army

  Yitzhak Rabin's speech to the US Congress, July 26, 1994.

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• Together, these advocates create a pro-Israeli case so compelling that the idea and reality of Israel has worked itself deep into American culture, politics and foreign policy. Many American Jews refuse to accept it, but the real debate between Israel’s supporters and detractors in America is all but over.

  Aaron David Miller

  Real, Ideas, America

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• To avoid manufactured misunderstandings, the policies of Israeli governments are not analogous to Nazism. They do not aim at the systematic extermination of the Palestinian people, in the way Nazism sought the annihilation of the Jews.

  Ken Livingstone

  Government, People, Nazism

  "This is about Israel, not anti-semitism" by Ken Livingstone, www.theguardian.com. March 4, 2005.

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• Are you an Israeli? I don't debate with Israelis. I have been misled, sorry. I don't recognise Israel and I don't debate with Israelis.

  George Galloway

  Sorry, Israel, Debate

  "George Galloway refuses to debate with Israeli student at Oxford" by Warren Murray, Sam Jones, www.theguardian.com. February 21, 2013.

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• I am an American Jew and aware of the sensitivities involved in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

  Steven Spielberg

  Conflict, Sensitivity, Palestinian

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• Whether [the 1993 World Trade Center bombing] was a setup by the Israeli Mossad, as a Jewish friend of mine suspects, or was truly a retaliation by the Islamic fundamentalists, matters little.

  Ron Paul

  Islamic, World, Littles

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• This is the reason why there are currently about 6,000 startups in Israel. And the nature of the Israeli entrepreneur—who is not afraid and is resourceful, motivated and fast moving—all give us an advantage.

  Yossi Vardi

  Moving, Israel, Giving

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• I am a Jew, Israel is a Jewish state. . . . Israel’s case is my case, Israel’s enemies are my enemies, and I do not want to be spared the troubles which Israeli musicians encounter when they represent the Jewish state beyond its borders.

  Evgeny Kissin

  Israel, Enemy, Musician

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