Israel Quotes - Page 17

• The God of Israel is sometimes a God who hides Himself, but never a God who absents Himself; sometimes in the dark, but never at a distance.

  Matthew Henry

  Distance, Dark, Sometimes

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• The Land of Israel needs a People and the People of Israel needs a Land.

  Israel Zangwill

  Land, People, Needs

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• As Prime Minister Netanyahu and Defense Minister Barak have repeatedly said, the intelligence and security relationship between the United States and Israel at present is unprecedented. It has never been stronger.

  Susan Rice

  Stronger, United States, Defense

  "Amb. Susan Rice, Rep. Mike Rogers discuss violence against Americans in the Middle East". "Fox News Sunday", www.foxnews.com. September 16, 2012.

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• Instead of a president who boycotts Prime Minister Netanyahu, imagine a president who stands unapologetically with the nation of Israel.

  Ted Cruz

  President, Imagine, Prime

  Ted Cruz's Announcement on Presidential Campaign at Liberty University in Lynchburg, Virginia, www.independent.co.uk. March 23, 2015.

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• At the United Nations, a lynch mob for Israel is always just a moment away.

  Elliott Abrams

  Moments, United Nations, United

  "Joining the Jackals". www.weeklystandard.com. June 2, 2010.

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• Israel's flexibility is dependent on its sense of security.

  Elliott Abrams

  Dependent, Security, Flexibility

  "The Future of an Illusion". www.weeklystandard.com. April 05, 2010.

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• Hamas says in its charter they want to see a world without Israel. They want to obliterate Israel.

  Ileana Ros-Lehtinen

  World, Want, Charter

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• We [Israel people] always blame Moses, that he was our greatest leader and one of the most gifted people in the world. He brought us the moral code and so on, belief in one God, but then he was a bad navigator. He brought us to the only part of the Middle East without any gas, without any oil.

  Benjamin Netanyahu

  Oil, People, Leader

  Source: piersmorgan.blogs.cnn.com

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• The entire world is focusing on the compromises that are necessary from Israel's side. But people [in the world] are not focusing on the fact that the Palestinians refuse to make the necessary compromises that are required on their side for peace.

  Benjamin Netanyahu

  People, World, Facts

  Source: piersmorgan.blogs.cnn.com

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• The Palestinian society is split into two - those who are openly calling for Israel's destruction like Hamas, and those who are not calling openly for Israel's destruction but refuse to confront those who do. And that's the Palestinian authority. I think they're timid, they're afraid to actually stand up to these killers. And I think that they're afraid, maybe for their own sake, for their own political hides, sometimes for their own physical safety. And they don't take that necessary plunge.

  Benjamin Netanyahu

  Two, Safety, Political

  Source: piersmorgan.blogs.cnn.com

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• The instability in the region is not a result of Israel and the Palestinians. That was never the cause of this instability. Instead, the disfunctionality of many of these societies that have failed to modernize.

  Benjamin Netanyahu

  Causes, Results, Palestinian

  Source: piersmorgan.blogs.cnn.com

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• There is a structural difference between the way that Europe views Israel, and America views Israel. The European view is informed by the importance of colonialism in Europe's past. So for Europeans we are like Belgiums in the Congo, or the French in Alger, or the British in India. Strange interlopers in somebody else's land. But in fact, we [Israeli] have been here for 4,000 years. This is our ancestral homeland.

  Benjamin Netanyahu

  Past, Years, Europe

  Source: piersmorgan.blogs.cnn.com

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• Israel can make peace with an organization that seeks its destruction. That's Hamas. But Israel can make peace with the Palestinian Authority. It requires a lot of courage from both sides including President Mahmoud Abbas, the president of the Palestinian Authority.

  Benjamin Netanyahu

  Organization, President, Sides

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• There is a great danger to the world, not only to my country [Israel] but to the United States, to the Middle East, to peace, to all of humanity, from the prospect that such regimes that brutalize its own people, that sponsors terrorism more than any other regime in the world - that this regime acquires atomic bombs is very, very dangerous.

  Benjamin Netanyahu

  Country, People, Humanity

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• Israel does not target civilians. It targets the terrorists.

  Benjamin Netanyahu

  Doe, Target, Terrorist

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• If I have to reduce all of the laws of war into a single sentence, it is this. You divide the world into two, combatants and noncombatants. You can attack deliberately combatants, but not deliberately noncombatants. Israel acts that way. It attacks combatants and accidentally kills noncombatants. But in the case of the terrorists, it's the exact opposite. They deliberately attack combatants - noncombatants, civilians, deliberately.

  Benjamin Netanyahu

  War, Law, Opposites

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• What I was doing was servicing the needs of my constituents and I was not allowed to do that because I did not toe the line on U.S. policy for Israel.

  Cynthia McKinney

  Needs, Lines, Toes

  "Cynthia McKinney Blasts U.S. on Libya TV, and Pro-Israel Groups in Iran". www.theatlantic.com. May 23, 2011.

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• The battle between two men over a girl is the same as the fight for two men over a piece of land. It is all about desire. There is no difference between a love triangle and the conflict between Israel and Palestine.

  Bruno Dumont

  Girl, Fighting, Men

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• Obama repeatedly has condemned Hamas as a terrorist organization that should be isolated until it renounces violence and recognizes Israel.

  Aaron Klein

  Organization, Violence, Renounce

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• The state of Israel must, from time to time, prove clearly that it is strong, and able and willing to use force, in a devastating and highly effective way. If it does not prove this, it will be swallowed up, and perhaps wiped off the face of the earth.

  Moshe Sharett

  Strong, Doe, Use

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• The battle would not take place in the mountains, valleys, or plains of Israel.  It would take place in the wilderness of the human heart.

  Francine Rivers

  Heart, Battle, Mountain

  Francine Rivers (2012). “A Lineage of Grace”, p.322, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• I am quite international. My background, born in Turkey. My family is a Jewish family from Iran, so I went from Turkey to Iran to Israel, and then grew up in Italy and ended up in U.S. for graduate school. So I tend to look at things from an international perspective, and I think that gives you a little bit of a broader view of what's going on.

  Nouriel Roubini

  School, Thinking, Views

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• You want a culture where citizens are free to express themselves and so live in the openness necessary to the functioning of a successful economy? Israel has a free press, much of it openly hostile to the parties in power.

  John Podhoretz

  Party, Successful, Want

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• Like crime, terrorism is a fact of life. I grew up in Israel, where every unattended bag was a suspected bomb; when my family moved for a few years, it was to London in the early years of the Troubles.

  Yochai Benkler

  Years, Facts, Bags

  "Manning and Snowden light path for the US to return to its better self" by Yochai Benkler, www.theguardian.com. July 26, 2013.

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• War criminals in the U.S. and Israel are not punished: no international court has the courage to put them on trial.

  Nawal El Saadawi

  War, Criminals, Trials

  "Forty years of women's lib" by Nawal El Saadawi, www.theguardian.com. March 11, 2011.

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