Israel Quotes - Page 16

• You know the Ark of Israel and the calf of Belial were both made of gold. Religion has never yet changed the metal of her one adoration.

  Ouida

  Gold, Ark, Calves

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• The nations which have put mankind and posterity most in their debt have been small states Israel, Athens, Florence, Elizabethan England.

  Bill Vaughan

  Florence, Minorities, Debt

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• Israel itself is the strongest guarantee against another Holocaust.

  Golda Meir

  Holocaust, Guarantees, Strongest

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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, People, Challenges

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• The State of Israel will prove itself not by material wealth, not by military might or technical achievement, but by its moral character and human values.

  David Ben-Gurion

  Military, Character, Achievement

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• No nation in the world has so many drastic problems squeezed into so small a space, under such urgent pressure of time and heavy burden of history, as Israel.

  Barbara Tuchman

  Space, World, Pressure

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• It is not enough for a man to dwell in the Land of Israel, he must also pray to be free.

  Shmuel Yosef Agnon

  Men, Land, Praying

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• It is my considered opinion that the State of Israel is a racist state in the full meaning of this term: In this state people are discriminated against, in the most permanent and legal way and in the most important areas of life, only because of their origin. This racist discrimination began in Zionism and is carried out today mainly in co-operation with the institutions of the Zionist movement.

  Israel Shahak

  People, Important, Racist

  "The Racist Nature of Zionism and of the Zionist State of Israel", the student newspaper of Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Pi-Ha'aton, November 5, 1975.

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• No amount of money given in charity, nothing but the abandonment of this hateful trade, can atone for this great sin against God, Israel and Humanity.

  Hermann Adler

  Humanity, Charity, Hateful

  "The Pentateuch and Haftorahs" by Joseph H. Hertz, p. 849, (One-volume edition), 1937.

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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, People, Judging

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• I have absolute respect for Israel and people in Israel who are critical of their own country.

  Antonio Munoz Molina

  Country, People, Critical

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• Those who adhere to the ideology of rejecting Israel’s right to exist, they might as well reject the earth beneath them or the sky above, because Israel is not going anywhere.

  Barack Obama

  Sky, Earth, Might

  Barack Obama's Speech To the People of Israel at the Jerusalem International Convention Center, Jerusalem, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. March 21, 2013.

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• There's a phrase you hear in Israel: "We're not Jews, we're Israelis." What that means is that the stereotype we're familiar with here in the States of the Diaspora Jew, i.e. Jews in America or Europe or Russia, etc. does not fit at all with the reality of the homegrown "sabras" of Israel.

  Steven Pressfield

  Mean, Reality, America

  Interview with Will Duquette, www.patheos.com. May 21, 2014.

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• I feel ashamed that the new, nuclear, neo-liberal India thinks of itself as a 'natural ally' of Israel. Ever since India began to call itself an emerging superpower, it has become a slavish, groveling satellite state of the US.

  Arundhati Roy

  Thinking, Allies, India

  Source: www.soldefter.com

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• The American administration is trying to achieve any gain in the shadow of the embarrassment hitting it because of its failures in Iraq, Afghanistan and Palestine after the failure of Israel's war on Lebanon and the retreat of America's project in the region.

  Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah

  War, Iraq, America

  "Senior Shiite Cleric Says U.S. Desperate". Forbes, August 7, 2007.

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• You should make the world understand that Israel is the oppressor and that Israel must be destroyed.

  Ali Meshkini

  World, Should, Oppressors

  "Nuclear Weapons - Iranian Statements", www.globalsecurity.org. December 14, 2001.

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• I prophesy in the name of the Lord God of Israel, unless the United States redress the wrongs committed upon the Saints in the state of Missouri and punish the crimes committed by her officers that in a few years the government will be utterly overthrown and wasted, and there will not be so much as a potsherd left . . .

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  Government, Years, Names

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• As the profoundest philosophy of ancient Rome and Greece lighted her taper at Israel's altar, so the sweetest strains of the pagan muse were swept from harps attuned on Zion's hill.

  Edward Thomson

  Bible, Philosophy, Zion

  Edward Thomson (1856). “Essays, moral and religious”, p.35

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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, Way

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• the life of Jesus recapitulates key elements in the earlier story of Israel. For a moment, as Jesus stands on the mountain giving the famous sermon, he is Moses. For a moment, answering his critics about his actions on the sabbath, he is David. For a moment, as he calls and names the twelve disciples, he is perhaps Jacob, bringing the twelve patriarchs into the world. For a moment, healing the sick and raising the dead, he is Elijah or Elisha. And so on. In the transfiguration he actually meets Moses and Elijah.

  N. T. Wright

  Jesus, Healing, Names

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• To subdivide this land into two unstable, insecure nations, to try to defend what is indefensible, is to invite disaster. Carving Judea and Samaria out of Israel means carving up Israel.

  Benjamin Netanyahu

  Mean, Insecure, Two

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• I think that anyone who moves to establish a Palestinian state and evacuate territory gives territory away to radical Islamist attacks against Israel.

  Benjamin Netanyahu

  Moving, Thinking, Giving

  "Netanyahu: If I'm Elected, There Will Be No Palestinian State". www.haaretz.com. March 16, 2015.

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• If there will be a serious Palestinian prime minister who makes a 100 percent effort to end terrorism, then we can have peace. Each side has to take steps. If terror continues, there will not be an independent Palestinian state. Israel will not accept it, if terror continues.

  Ariel Sharon

  Independent, Effort, Sides

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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, Citizens

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• Since Israel is a democratic state surrounded by essentially undemocratic states which have sworn her destruction, those interested in democracy everywhere must support Israel's existence.

  Bayard Rustin

  Support, Democracy, Destruction

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