Israeli Quotes - Page 12

• But there's one thing we are not going to compromise at all: when it comes to security of Israeli citizens and the State of Israel, there are not going to be any compromises - not now and not in the future.

  Ariel Sharon

  Israel, Citizens, Compromise

  Interview With Matt Rees, content.time.com. May 14, 2005.

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• Close to 80 percent of all terrorist activity in Samaria was directed and financed either by Hizbullah or the Iranians. Iran continues to increase its involvement in terror attacks inside Israel, particularly through a small but radical minority of Israeli Arabs which Iran supports and directs.

  Ariel Sharon

  Israel, Iran, Terror Attacks

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• Peace should provide security. It should be durable. I'm ready to go far in making painful concessions. But there is one thing I will never make any concessions on and that's the security of the Israeli citizens and the very existence of the state of Israel. The Palestinians are losing time.

  Ariel Sharon

  Israel, Citizens, Losing

  "The Bulldozer". Interview with Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. November 7, 2001.

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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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• The end of the occupation. The right of return of the Palestinian people. These are critical dividing lines in human rights. We have to be here. No American would put up with an Israeli-style occupation of their hometown for 53 days let alone 54 years. US tax dollars are funding violence against people of color inside the US borders and outside the US borders.

  Van Jones

  Color, Years, Rights

  "Wartimes: Reports From The Opposition". Studio album by Van Jones and Mumia Abu-Jamal, www.powerlineblog.com. 2003.

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• The Israeli puppeteer travels to Washington and meets with the puppet in the White House. He then goes down Pennsylvania Avenue and meets with the puppets in Congress. The Israeli leader then 'brings back millions of dollars' in aid to Israel.

  Ralph Nader

  Israel, White, House

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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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• I also believe that US backing for Israeli policies of expansion of the Israeli state and oppression of the Palestinian people is the major cause of bitter division and violence in the world.

  Clare Short

  Believe, People, Division

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• Today the Israeli government continues seizures of Palestinian land for settlements, military incursions into surrounding countries and denial of the right of Palestinians expelled by terror to return. Ariel Sharon, Israel's prime minister, is a war criminal who should be in prison, not in office. Israel's own Kahan commission found that Sharon shared responsibility for the Sabra and Shatila massacres.

  Ken Livingstone

  Country, Military, War

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

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• The threat of mutually assured destruction worked for the United States during the Cold War because it had proved its willingness to drop nuclear bombs on enemy cities at the end of World War II. It might work less well for Israel, because the Israeli Air Force has never deliberately targeted a large civilian population center, and its leaders have said its morality would not permit it do so.

  Alan Dershowitz

  War, Air, Israel

  "Preemption: A Knife That Cuts Both Ways". Book by Alan Dershowitz, February 17, 2006.

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• To be an actor in the society in Israel, you have to be ten times better than the Israeli Jews. To get the roles in mainstream theater or to get any role, not typecast as an Arab. And also if you are ten times better, not all the time you get the opportunity.

  Ali Suliman

  Opportunity, Israel, Actors

  "Charisma Personified: Meeting Ali Suliman at the Abu Dhabi Film Festival". Interview with E. Nina Rothe, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 15, 2014.

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• The underlying problem remains the Israeli occupation of Palestinian land and the continuing Israeli assaults against our people.

  Ismail Haniyeh

  Land, People, Israeli Occupation

  Partners for Peace interview, March 15, 2006.

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• Another longstanding foreign policy flaw is the degree to which special interests dictate the way in which the "national interest" as a whole is defined and pursued.... America's important historic relationship with Israel has often led foreign policy decision-makers to defer reflexively to Israeli security assessments, and to replicate Israeli tactics, which, as the war in Lebanon last summer demonstrated, can turn out to be counter-productive.

  Samantha Power

  Summer, War, Israel

  Interview with in Molly Lanzarotta, Harvard University, John F. Kennedy School of Government, March 14, 2007.

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• If the method is able to liberate our land, to liberate our people from Israeli jails, to reconstruct what was destroyed by the long-standing Israeli occupation, at that time we can discuss.

  Mahmoud al-Zahar

  Land, Jail, Long

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• Sharona Muir has written a gripping personal memoir about her odyssey to rediscover and reclaim her father. Along the way she uncovers some hard truths about the heroic founders of Israel and the Beginnings of Israeli science. The Book of Telling keeps in all the fears and resentments and consolations and warmth of such a process-at once her own story and the tale of a nation.

  Edmund White

  Father, Book, Israel

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• The security of the citizens of Israel, the future of the state of Israel, this is the Israeli governments responsibility.

  Avigdor Lieberman

  Responsibility, Government, Israel

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• On taking office in 2009, U.S. President Barack Obama put Israeli settlements at the center of U.S. policy in the Middle East.

  Elliott Abrams

  Office, President, Middle East

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• Israel of the coastal plain, where eight out of ten Israeli Jews live far removed from the occupied territories, from the fiery Jerusalem, from the religious and nationalistic conflicts, is unknown to the outside world, almost unknown to itself.

  Amos Oz

  Religious, Eight, Israel

  "Coping with Conflict: Israeli Author Amos Oz". "PBS NewsHour" with Elizabeth Fransworth, www.pbs.org. January 22, 2002.

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• When PLO sniper fire is followed by 14 hours of Israeli bombardment, that's stretching the definition of defensive action too far.

  Ronald Reagan

  Peace, War, Fire

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• There is a structural difference between the way that Europe views Israel, and America views Israel. The European view is informed by the importance of colonialism in Europe's past. So for Europeans we are like Belgiums in the Congo, or the French in Alger, or the British in India. Strange interlopers in somebody else's land. But in fact, we [Israeli] have been here for 4,000 years. This is our ancestral homeland.

  Benjamin Netanyahu

  Past, Years, Europe

  Source: piersmorgan.blogs.cnn.com

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• I don't know of any army that does more than an Israeli army does to avoid civilian casualties. But incidental and unintended casualties accompany every war.

  Benjamin Netanyahu

  War, Army, Doe

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• From 1967, all the Israeli governments continued making two big mistakes: occupation and settlement in the territories.

  Stephane Hessel

  Mistake, Government, Two

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• Science is not a sacred cow. Science is a horse. Don’t worship it. Feed it.
  [Addressing a group of prospective contributors to an Israeli scientific research program]

  Abba Eban

  Horse, Groups, Research

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