Israeli Quotes - Page 7

• Whether you were Moslem, Christian, Druze, or Israeli, remember, God protect thee, that religious fanaticism for political goals or political fanaticism for religious purposes is the worst kind of fanaticism.

  Ameen Rihani

  Christian, Religious, Goal

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• Beyond that is the fear that the United States will end up negotiating and agreeing to a deal with Iran. The Israelis do not like that either because they fear the deal will come at the expense of Israel's security interests. From an Israeli perspective, the NIE makes the risk of some sort of settlement much greater.

  Trita Parsi

  Israel, Iran, Perspective

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I hope that the Palestinians don't make the mistake of unleashing a new intifada. They've tried it twice before, and the consequences were bad for both sides. But I don't think the forces are there (that could carry out) an uprising against the leadership. The people that could initiate it are in Israeli prisons. And what could they hope to achieve? In the end, they're too weak to end the Israeli occupation.

  Tom Segev

  Mistake, Thinking, Uprising

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I think what history will show is that one of the most tragic results of the war in Iraq will be that although Sharon, the Likudites, the Neoconservatives in our country, President Bush and the Democratic party thought the war in Iraq and destroying Saddam would benefit Israeli security, we're seeing absolutely that the war in Iraq has probably put Israeli security in a more tenuous condition than it's been in since the founding of the Israeli state.

  Michael Scheuer

  Country, War, Party

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• You become an anti-Semite. And as powerful as the Israeli lobby is, the Saudi lobby is just as powerful. In fact, the Saudis probably have more money to throw around, and they suborn former U.S. intelligence officials, former ambassadors, former generals to support them from within by lobbying the Congress and other American institutions.

  Michael Scheuer

  Powerful, Support, Facts

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Today again the teacher is the important thing, but on the other hand anti-Semitism is growing today. No doubt about it. All over the world, especially in Europe, and it's true they begin with anti-Israeli attitudes and then it's so strong that it runs over and becomes anti-Semitic.

  Elie Wiesel

  Running, Teacher, Strong

  Source: www.nobelprize.org

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• The Amman Agreement failed because there was American pressure, and Israeli pressure, on Jordan to deal alone.

  Yasser Arafat

  Agreement, Jordan, Pressure

  Source: www.nybooks.com

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• In 1982, when Alexander Haig and [Ariel] Sharon put this plan to invade the south of Lebanon and Beirut, they imagined that in two or three or five days, they can demolish the PLO and destroy its infrastructure. What happened? The longest Arab - Israeli confrontation.

  Yasser Arafat

  Two, Lebanon, Three

  Source: www.nybooks.com

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• The greatest tragedy of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is that everyone knows how it will end. We will divide up the region.

  Yair Lapid

  Tragedy, Conflict, Ends

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Orthodox Jews often ask you: "Are you an Israeli first, or a Jew?" I see no difference between the two. After all, I'm also simultaneously the son of my parents, the husband of my wife and the father of my children.

  Yair Lapid

  Children, Husband, Father

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• Being a Jew and an Israeli are inseparable things.

  Yair Lapid

  Inseparable, Jew

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• An Israeli man's life was saved when he was given a Palestinian man's heart in a heart transplant operation. The guy is doing fine, but the bad news is, he can't stop throwing rocks at himself.

  Jay Leno

  Heart, Men, Rocks

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• Though public pronouncements of Israeli officials emphasize peace and mutuality, unilateralism actually drives Israeli actions.

  Douglas J. Feith

  Action, Unilateralism, Officials

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• Finding the right form of debate regarding Israeli policies will remain a challenge in Germany. Even with every conceivable and warranted criticism, the danger always arises that it will be exploited by those who consciously or unconsciously present anti-Semitism in a new guise.

  Sigmar Gabriel

  Challenges, Criticism, Germany

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• I was a witness to lots of death... Saving a human life was something really, really beautiful... no matter who they are. Not only Israeli people owe me their lives. I guarantee many terrorists, many Palestinian leaders, owe me their lives - or in other words they owe my Lord their lives.

  Mosab Hassan Yousef

  Beautiful, People, Leader

  "They Need to Be Liberated From Their God". Interview with Matthew Kaminski, www.wsj.com. March 6, 2010.

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• The Israeli mentality was totally different to mine. They just didn't understand people like me. They couldn't understand why I had been in a ghetto. We were totally different.

  Edgar Hilsenrath

  Ghetto, People, Different

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Israeli government & the neocons want US to bomb Iran.

  Ron Paul

  Government, Iran, Bombs

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• There are two phases of the redeployment of the Israeli forces in the West Bank: One, to allow elections. Second, after the elections, to help further redeployment.

  Yitzhak Rabin

  Two, Phases, West

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• We are in a period called post. In previous periods, anti-Semitism was always direct. Today's anti-Semitism isn't direct. If you say today that the Jews are absolute evil, or Israel is absolute evil, you must say Israeli is committing genocide against the Palestinians. It is very rare to find a Western politician who repeats these things.

  Manfred Gerstenfeld

  Israel, Evil, Today

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• Another touchy point: the inability of successive Israeli governments to deal with the propaganda war. Israel has a brilliant instrument in the IDF. We have a cyber-war unit which may become the best unit in the world to fight cyber problems. On the propaganda war...it is a large failure.

  Manfred Gerstenfeld

  War, Fighting, Government

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• We must see what in the Israeli identity - in the Israeli - we can give to other people rather than speaking so often of taking, expanding territory.

  A. B. Yehoshua

  People, Giving, Identity

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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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• When I was in my routine training for the Israeli army as a teenager, they discovered completely by chance that I was a lethal sniper. I could hit the target smack in the center further away than anyone could believe. Not just that, even though I was tiny and not even much of an athlete, I was incredibly accurate throwing hand grenades too. Even today I can load a Sten automatic rifle in a single minute, blindfolded.

  Ruth Westheimer

  Teenager, Believe, Athlete

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• Everybody is in the pocket of the Israeli lobbies.

  Helen Thomas

  Pockets

  "‘I’m anti-Zionist,’ Helen Thomas declared, in twilight of long career" by Philip Weiss, mondoweiss.net. July 21, 2013.

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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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