Israel Quotes - Page 13

• [Israel] undermines the international community's reaction to global warming.

  Clare Short

  Community, Global Warming, Reactions

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• And as long as the world lasts, all who want to make progress in righteousness will come to Israel for inspiration, as to the people who have had the sense for righteousness most glowing and strongest; and in hearing and reading the words Israel has uttered for us, carers for conduct will find a glow and a force they could find nowhere else.

  Matthew Arnold

  Inspiration, Reading, Glowing

  Matthew Arnold (1968). “Complete Prose Works: Dissent and dogma”

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• We are awaiting aggression by Israel and any supporters of Israel. We will make it a decisive battle and get rid of Israel once and for all... This is the dream of every Arab.

  Gamal Abdel Nasser

  Dream, Battle, Aggression

  Washington Post, July 27, 1959.

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• We got a leader in Iran who has announced that he wants to destroy Israel. So I've told people that if you're interested in avoiding World War III, it seems like you ought to be interested in preventing them from have the knowledge necessary to make a nuclear weapon.

  George W. Bush

  War, Iran, People

  "Sen. Lieberman Backs U.S. Action Against Iran". Interview with Robert Siegel, www.npr.org. November 2, 2007.

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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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• Israel will not transfer Judea, Samaria, and the Gaza District to any foreign sovereign authority, [because] of the historic right of our nation to this land, [and] the needs of our national security, which demand a capability to defend our State and the lives of our citizens.

  Menachem Begin

  Land, Sovereign, Needs

  "Iron Wall". Book by Lenni Brenner, 1984.

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• From what cause the rite of baptism first proceeded is not expressed formally in the scripture, but it may be probably thought to be an imitation of the law of Moses concerning leprosy, wherein the leprous man was commanded to be kept out of the camp of Israel for a certain time, after which time being judged by the priest to be clean, he was admitted into the camp after a solemn washing. And this may therefore be a type of the washing in baptism, wherein such men as are cleansed of the leprosy of Sin by Faith, are received into the church with the solemnity of baptism.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Men, Law, Baptism

  Thomas Hobbes (2008). “Leviathan”, p.357, Simon and Schuster

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• In the name of Israel's God, if every man would do right, and when he has done what he knows is right, then stops till he knows what next, there never would be a jar in the camp. And I defy the man to come forward that ever led so large a people in such difficult and trying circumstances, in so much peace, as I have led this people during this campaign, with the help of God and my brethren.

  Brigham Young

  Men, Names, People

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• Our first and immutable commitment must be to the security of Israel, our only true ally in the Middle East and the only democracy.

  Barack Obama

  Commitment, Democracy, Allies

  Chicago Daily Herald, October 18, 2004.

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• Israel is our friend, that we will assist in their security.

  Barack Obama

  Security

  "Obama says Clinton has foreign policy like Bush's" by Steve Holland, www.reuters.com. July 26, 2007.

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• Jerusalem will remain the capital of Israel, and it must remain undivided.

  Barack Obama

  Jerusalem

  Barack Obama (2008). “An American Story: The Speeches of Barack Obama : a Primer”, Independent Publishing Group

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• I see a sequence of seven main phases: creation,revolution or exodus (Israel in Egypt), law, wisdom, prophecy, gospel, and apocalypse.

  Northrop Frye

  Egypt, Law, Phases

  Northrop Frye, Alvin A. Lee (2006). “The Great Code: The Bible and Literature”, p.126, University of Toronto Press

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• Unless the Arab states give Israel formal recognition, within secure, recognised and mutually agreed boundaries, as a permanent feature of the geography and politics of the Middle East. But if Israel is to obtain this recognition, she must, in a settlement, put an end to the territorial occupation which she has maintained since the war of 1967; the nine members of the European Community have declared that this is an essential element in a settlement. On behalf of the British Government I underline that need today.

  Anthony Crosland

  War, Government, Giving

  Speech to the UN General Assembly, October 5, 1976.

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• And also to the alien, who is not of Thy people Israel, but comes from a distant land on account of Thy fame; for hearing of Thy great name and Thy strong hand, and Thine outstretched arm, he comes to this house to pray... do Thou listen in the heavens, the place where Thou dwellest, and perform all that the alien begs of Thee, so that all the peoples of the earth may know Thy name, to fear Thee like Thine own people Israel, and to know that Thy name is proclaimed over this house that I have built.

  Solomon

  Strong, Land, Names

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• If Israel falls to the terrorists, the entire free world will tremble. To forsake Israel now would be tantamount to forsaking Great Britain in 1940. It is unthinkable, and it is unthinkable because the world wants to know if we believe freedom is worth fighting for.

  Tom DeLay

  Believe, Fall, Fighting

  "DeLay makes intense appeal for Jewish voters" by Tom Curry, www.nbcnews.com. September 1, 2004.

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• We shall never stop until we can go back home and Israel is destroyed... The goal of our struggle is the end of Israel, and there can be no compromises or mediations... the goal of this violence is the elimination of Zionism from Palestine in all its political, economic and military aspects... We don't want peace, we want victory. Peace for us means Israel's destruction and nothing else.

  Yasser Arafat

  Military, Struggle, Home

  The Washington Post, March 29, 1970.

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• What Kuwait did to the Palestinian people is worse than what has been done by Israel to Palestinians in the occupied territories.

  Yasser Arafat

  Kuwait, People, Done

  "The Palestinians, Alone" by Efraim Karsh, www.nytimes.com. August 1, 2010.

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• Israel has gone mad. It's attacking, doing the same thing to the Palestinian and Lebanese people that they have criticised - and with reason - the Holocaust . But this is a new Holocaust.

  Hugo Chavez

  People, Mad, Holocaust

  "Venezuela 'to sever Israel ties'", news.bbc.co.uk. August 9, 2006.

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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, Cities

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

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• I don't take sides for or against Hezbollah or for or against Israel.

  John Dingell

  Hezbollah, Sides

  "Following the lead of Power Line and The Washington Times, Limbaugh cropped Dingell's statement to suggest he "refuses to condemn" Hezbollah" by Joe Brown, www.mediamatters.org. August 2, 2006.

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• I believe that the biblical teaching is clear. It always contests political power. It incites to "counterpower," to "positive" criticism, to an irreducible dialogue (like that between king and prophet in Israel), to antistatism, to a decentralizing of the relation, to an extreme relativizing of everything political, to an anti-ideology, to a questioning of all that claims either power or dominion (in other words, of all things political), and finally, if we may use a modern term, to a kind of "anarchism" (so long as we do not relate the term to the anarchist teaching of the nineteenth century).

  Jacques Ellul

  Kings, Teaching, Biblical

  "The Subversion of Christianity" by Jacques Ellul, translated by G. Bromiley, (p. 116), 1986.

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• Israel is the number one rogue state threat to Middle Eastern peace with its nuclear arms and acts of outright aggression towards its peaceful neighbours Syria and Lebanon - and genocidal actions against the marginalised Palestinians of the West Bank - and Gaza in particular.

  Mohamed ElBaradei

  Numbers, Peaceful, Nuclear

  "IAEA Chief: Israel the Real Rogue Nuclear State". glossynews.com. October 08, 2009.

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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, Actors, Roles

  "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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• When you go to the Holy Land and see what's being done to the Palestinians at checkpoints, for us, it's the kind of thing we experienced in South Africa. Whether you want to say Israel practices apartheid is immaterial. They are doing things, given their history, you think, "Do you remember what happened to you?" Then they clobber you and say, "You are anti-Semitic."

  Desmond Tutu

  Thinking, Land, Practice

  "Interview: Desmond Tutu on gay rights, the Middle East and Pope Francis". Interview With Sarah Pulliam Bailey, www.washingtonpost.com. September 13, 2013.

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• Iran should not be denied the human right to knowledge...the fear of America is Iran's attitude to Israel, and the cornerstone of America's foreign policy is the protection of Israel... If Iran believes in Allah, and if Iran believes in the power of Allah, Iran can't be frightened by America.

  Louis Farrakhan

  Attitude, Believe, America

  "Farrakhan Champions Iran's Nuclear Program". "Al Jazeera", archive.frontpagemag.com. March 23, 2007.

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