Israeli Quotes - Page 3

• The Arab-Israeli conflict is also in many ways a conflict about status: it's a war between two peoples who feel deeply humiliated by the other, who want the other to respect them. Battles over status can be even more intractable than those over land or water or oil.

  Alain de Botton

  War, Land, Two

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• The Israeli-Palestinian conflict seems to have been overshadowed by the upheavals in the region.  I have followed events there for almost 40 years. I am convinced that what is needed for a solution is not only the willingness to negotiate in good faith but also to take into account the needs and sensibility of the negotiating partner. I, for one, just cannot believe that the value of settlements for Israel is bigger than the damage these settlements do as an obstacle to peace.

  Heinz Fischer

  Believe, Israel, Years

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• An Israeli woman is not like women in our societies, because she is a soldier.

  Yusuf al-Qaradawi

  Soldier, Our Society

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• If the [captured Israeli] soldiers are not returned, we will turn Lebanon's clock back 20 years.

  Dan Halutz

  Years, Soldier, Lebanon

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• Not all Modern Orthodox Jews, at the present juncture, identify with what the Israeli government does. In Israel many religious Zionists strongly oppose the government because of the disengagement.

  Norman Lamm

  Religious, Government, Israel

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• I think the Israeli people understand now what I always say: that there cannot be a situation, under any agreement, in which we relinquish security control of the territory west of the River Jordan.

  Benjamin Netanyahu

  Thinking, Agreement, Rivers

  "Netanyahu finally speaks his mind". www.timesofisrael.com. July 13, 2014.

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• If the president Donald Trump had connected the Jerusalem question to some other positions, linking it to Israeli and Palestinian behavior or putting the Jerusalem statement in a larger context of U.S. policy, it could have potentially advanced the peace process. But I don't see how singling it out might help.

  Richard N. Haass

  President, Helping, Behavior

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• The Israeli strategy has been proven to be a complete failure.

  Mohammed Dahlan

  Strategy, Has Beens, Proven

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• If we are really anxious not to have nuclear weapons in Iran, the first thing is to call an international conference on abolishing all nuclear weapons, including Israeli nuclear weapons.

  Bruce Kent

  Iran, Nuclear, Weapons

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• The other thing is going to be me being able to show not just the American people or the Israeli people but the world that, in fact, we have mechanisms in place that will prevent Iran from having a nuclear weapon.

  Barack Obama

  Iran, People, Facts

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• From the sea came a boat with some Israeli commando soldiers who took me by the commando boat to the yacht and put me on the yacht. In the yacht I asked people, who are you. And they said we are Israelis, French and British.

  Mordechai Vanunu

  Sea, People, Soldier

  "Democracy Now!" with Amy Goodman, www.counterpunch.org. August 18, 2004.

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• And this would normalize the existence of the Israeli and the Jew: a majority of Jews in the Land of Israel and a majority of Israelis among the Jewish People.

  Shimon Peres

  Israel, Land, People

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• I grew up in a working-class Israeli family, which was feminist only in its female-dominated structure.

  Hanna Rosin

  Class, Feminist, Female

  "Hanna Rosin: 'I feel miscast in the gender wars'". Interview with Lisa O'Kelly, www.theguardian.com. September 29, 2012.

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• Hezbollah's contempt for human suffering is total, as it showed once again this morning when its rockets murdered two Israeli Arab children in Nazareth.

  Tom Lantos

  Morning, Children, Two

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• The United States is squandering international prestige and goodwill and intensifying global anti-American terrorism by unofficially condoning or abetting the Israeli confiscation and colonization of Palestinian territories.

  Jimmy Carter

  United States, Territory, Terrorism

  Jimmy Carter (2014). “The Jimmy Carter Library”, p.759, Simon and Schuster

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• I have seen for the first time in 100 years of conflict, the two peoples - the Israeli people and the Palestinian people - are ahead of their leaderships.

  Amos Oz

  Years, Two, People

  "Coping with Conflict: Israeli Author Amos Oz". Interview with Elizabeth Farnsworth, www.pbs.org. January 22, 2002.

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• Jordan recognizes that east Jerusalem is the capital of the Palestinian state and Jordan rejects foreign sovereignty -- Israeli sovereignty -- over the holy sites

  Yasser Arafat

  Rejection, East, Jerusalem

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• Palestinian and Israeli leaders finally recover the Road Map to Peace, only to discover that, while they were looking for it, the Lug Nuts of Mutual Interest came off the Front Left Wheel of Accommodation, causing the Sport Utility Vehicle of Progress to crash into the Ditch of Despair.

  Dave Barry

  Sports, Nuts, Mutual Interest

  Dave Barry (2007). “Dave Barry's History of the Millennium (So Far)”, p.98, Penguin

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• Palestine is occupied land, and under international law, the Palestinians have the legal right to resist this occupation by any and all means. This may make busses, restaurants, discos-where Israeli military congregate, lawful targets.

  Enver Masud

  Military, Islamic, Mean

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• The government would have preferred not to take a stand, but the constant presence of the Israeli-Arab conflict on our television screens made it an issue that could no longer be avoided.

  Jean-Marie Le Pen

  Government, Issues, Television

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• The special relationship between the United States and Israel still stands. Our total committments to Israel's security and our hope for peace is still preeminent among all the other considerations that our Nation has in the Middle East ... But there need be no concern among the Israeli people nor among Jews in this country that our Nation has changed or turned away from Israel.

  Jimmy Carter

  Country, Israel, People

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• Public interest in most of the Middle East was slight at that time; the Arab-Israeli conflict was all that people were interested in and that was not my specialty.

  Juan Cole

  Aunt, People, Middle East

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• I was critical of the Israeli government, however, for not being prepared for the move. One does not uproot thousands of people without planning in advance what will be done with them. This was a political and human error in which the government functioned poorly.

  Norman Lamm

  Moving, Errors, Government

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• My parents often wondered why I would grow so indignant at the falsification and exploitation of the Nazi genocide. The most obvious answer is that it has been used to justify criminal policies of the Israeli state and US support for these policies.

  Norman Finkelstein

  Support, Parent, Criminals

  "The Holocaust Industry: Reflections on the Exploitation of Jewish Suffering". Book by Norman Finkelstein, 2000.

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• It's not an Israeli model, it's a TSA, screwed-up model. It should actually be the person who's looking at the ticket and talking to the individual. Instead, they've hired people to stand around and observe, which is a bastardization of what should be done.

  John Mica

  Talking, Tsa, People

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