Israeli Quotes - Page 6

• All my writing-life people kept telling me that I should stop writing short stories and start writing novels: my agent, my Israeli publisher, my foreign ones, my bank manager - they all felt and keep feeling that I'm doing something wrong here.

  Etgar Keret

  Writing, People, Feelings

  "Suddenly: An Interview With Etgar Keret". Interview with Courtney Becks, www.raintaxi.com. Summer 2012.

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• In order to restore security for Israeli citizens, every home, mother and child in Israel, and to establish a stable and strong government that will unite the nation...I hereby declare my candidacy.

  Benjamin Netanyahu

  Mother, Strong, Children

  "Netanyahu vows to take on Barak" by Suzanne Goldenberg, www.theguardian.com. December 10, 2000.

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• The Holocaust never quite leaves Israeli Jews alone. Arabs use it against them and they use it against Arabs. Jews use it against other Jews. Even the president of the United States, it seems, can use it against the prime minister of Israel.

  David K. Shipler

  Israel, Holocaust, President

  David K. Shipler (2015). “Arab and Jew: Wounded Spirits in a Promised Land”, p.470, Broadway Books

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• I've never seen a single demonstration in Pakistan, in the streets of Gaza, in the West Bank, in which the people have come out with signs saying, "Please give us better roads. Please give us new prenatal clinics. Please give us a new sewage system." I'm sure they'd like those things, but it's not what they demand in the demonstrations. In the demonstrations, they talk about justice, they talk about an end to Israeli occupation.

  Robert Fisk

  Justice, People, Giving

  Interview with Matthew Rothschild, progressive.org. November 30, 2001.

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• It's not like America's view of the Israeli-Palestinian struggle is going to change. There are some things that are going to change and some things that are not going to change.

  Immortal Technique

  Struggle, Views, America

  Source: www.hiphopcanada.com

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• All American and Israeli goods and products should be boycotted in a way that undermines American and Israeli interests so as to act as deterrence to their war against Muslims and Islam that is being waged under the pretence of fighting terrorism. This boycott should become an overwhelming trend that makes these two states feel that their economies are in a real and actual danger.

  Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah

  Real, War, Fighting

  "Boycott of Israeli and US companies gaining momentum" by Shatha Khalil and Abdul Adil, archive.muslimnews.co.uk. June 28, 2002.

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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, Israel, People

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• Real Jews, in concord with some Muslims, continue their war against Zionists and against Israeli crimes. The oppressed people of Palestine living under occupation must feel that believers of all faiths support them.

  Maurice Motamed

  Real, War, People

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• Israel's economic and cultural progress is due to three things: the pioneering spirit that inspires the best of our immigrant and Israeli youth, who respond to the challenge of our desolute areas and the ingathering of the exiles; the feeling of Diaspora Jewry that they are partners in the enterprise of Israel's resurgence in the ancient homeland of the Jewish people; and the power of science, and technology which Israel unceasingly, and not without success, tries to enhance.

  David Ben-Gurion

  Technology, Israel, People

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• Israel has to accommodate the Palestinian demands and aspirations for ending occupation and the establishment of an independent Palestinian state. That is the only answer. The Israeli aggression on Gaza does not bring peace to Israel. We know that. We want end of occupation.

  Benjamin Netanyahu

  Independent, Israel, Doe

  Source: cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com

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• In some respects, South African apartheid was more vicious than Israeli practices, and in some respects the opposite is true.

  Noam Chomsky

  Opposites, Practice, Vicious

  "On the Future of Israel and Palestine". Interview with Frank Barat, chomsky.info. June 6, 2008.

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• If Saddam's regime and survival are threatened [by invasion], he will have nothing to lose, and may use everything at his disposal... If weapons of mass destruction land on Israeli soil, killing innocent civilians, the experts I have consulted believe Israel will retaliate, and possibly with nuclear weapons... Nor can we rule out the possibility that Saddam would assault American forces with chemical or biological weapons.

  Edward Kennedy

  Believe, Mass Destruction, Israel

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• Navajo infants get so attached to cradleboard that they cry to be tied into it. Kikuyu infants in Kenya get handed around several"mothers," all wives to one man. . . . Mothers in rural Guatemala keep their infants quiet, in dark huts. Middle-class American mothers talk a blue streak at them. Israeli kibbutz mothers give them over to a communal caretaker . . . Japanese mothers sleep with them. . . . All these tactics are compatible with normal health--physical and mental--and development in infancy. So one lesson for parents so far seems to be: Let a hundred flowers bloom.

  Melvin Konner

  Mother, Flower, Sleep

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• An Israeli who thinks that his government is doing everything right wouldn't join the Divan Orchestra in the first place.

  Daniel Barenboim

  Thinking, Government, Orchestra

  "The Germans Are Prisoners of Their Past". Interview with Joachim Kronsbein and Bernhard Zand, www.spiegel.de. June 22, 2012.

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• Obama has been the single worst president in modern American history in dealing with the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

  Reza Aslan

  President, Conflict, Modern

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I was working as a journalist for an Israeli paper in Paris, and my salary at the highest was fifty dollars a month. At the end of the month I always had palpitations; I didn't know how to pay my rent. Even after the war, I was often hungry. But that's part of the romantic condition of a student. To be a student in Paris and not be hungry is wrong.

  Elie Wiesel

  War, Paris, Paper

  Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org

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• We will never agree to give up Jerusalem, a united city under Israeli sovereignty, and only Israeli. We will not accept a terrorist Palestinian state, we will not accept an agreement based on the 67 lines.

  Naftali Bennett

  Giving Up, Cities, Agreement

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• The protesters, in Jerusalem and in Tel Aviv, revealed an open and raw wound at the heart of Israeli society, the pain of a community crying out over a sense of discrimination, racism, and of being unanswered.

  Reuven Rivlin

  Pain, Heart, Racism

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• If you ask me 'What is the one great move you can make to improve the Israeli economy?' of course it will be signing an agreement with the Arab world about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. This will change everything.

  Yair Lapid

  Change, Moving, Agreement

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• I have nothing to say to him [Ronald Reagan], because he is mad. He is foolish. He is an Israeli dog.

  Muammar al-Gaddafi

  Dog, Mad, Foolish

  "Gadhafi: Reagan Tried To Kill Me" by Marie Colvin, articles.sun-sentinel.com. June 20, 1986.

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• Give me until the end of the year and I will be able to control the chaos in Gaza, ... Now that the Israeli pullout is completed, we will be able to better deal with the problem.

  Mahmoud Abbas

  Years, Giving, Able

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• Newly released transcripts reveal that President Nixon was drunk during the Arab-Israeli crisis of 1973. After hearing this, President Bush said, 'Hey, so was I!'

  Conan O'Brien

  Drunk, President, Hey

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• A two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and a region free of Iranian nukes are worthy goals that should be able to withstand public scrutiny in every Middle Eastern capital.

  Edgar Bronfman, Sr.

  Two, Goal, Nukes

  "The Arab Role in Making Peace" by Edgar M. Bronfman, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 3, 2010.

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• Agribusiness could provide an opportunity for joint Israeli-Palestinian projects, spurred on by Israeli technical expertise in this field.

  Edgar Bronfman, Sr.

  Opportunity, Agribusiness, Fields

  "The Regional Economics of Peace" by Edgar M. Bronfman, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.

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• Extol Jewish virtue, modern Zionism and the Israeli Defense Forces.

  Geraldo Rivera

  Defense, Literature, Virtue

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