Israel Quotes - Page 18

• We of the modern age are a bridge between the old human and the new one. We still have the mentality of the old human - a slave mentality, like the Children of Israel in Egypt: too controlled, full of fear.

  Bernard Werber

  Children, Egypt, Bridges

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• The people of Israel are entitled, as is any other nation, to live in peace and safety.

  Jonathan Sacks

  People, Safety, Nations

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• If the Hamas people had the opportunity, they would kill the maximum number of Israelis, which would be all. And, Israel has the opportunity to kill way more, and they do not.

  Bill Maher

  Opportunity, Maximum Number, Numbers

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• The holiness of the kingdom of God must be preserved. If Jesus refused to acknowledge and fight for Israel as God's favored nation- even though it was the one nation in history that actually held this status at one time- how much more must his followers refuse to acknowledge and fight for America as God's favored nation" To say it another way, if Jesus was committed solely to establishing a kingdom that had no intrinsic nationalistic or ethnic allegiances- not even with Israel- how much more should his followers be committed to expanding this unique, non-nationalistic kingdom?

  Gregory A. Boyd

  Jesus, Fighting, Unique

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• Have not all theists painted their Deity as the god of love and goodness? Yet after thousands of years of such preachments the gods remain deaf to the agony of the human race. Confucius cares not for the poverty, squalor and misery of the people of China. Buddha remains undisturbed in his philosophical indifference to the famine and starvation of outraged Hindoos; Jahve continues deaf to the bitter cry of Israel; while Jesus refuses to rise from the dead against his Christians who are butchering each other.

  Emma Goldman

  Christian, Jesus, Philosophical

  Emma Goldman (1915). “Mother Earth, a Monthly Magazine Devoted to the Social Science and Literature”

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• The United States has an absolute, uncompromising commitment to Israel's security and an absolute conviction that Israel alone must decide the steps necessary to ensure that security. That is Israel's prerogative. We accept that. We endorse that. Whatever Israel decides cannot, will not, will never, not ever, alter our fundamental commitment to her security.

  Al Gore

  Commitment, Scary, Steps

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• I go and I keep friends with [Abe] Rosenthal at the New York Times and people of that sort, you know. And all - I mean, not all the Jews, but a lot of the Jews are great friends of mine, they swarm around me and are friendly to me because they know that I'm friendly with Israel. But they don't know how I really feel about what they are doing to this country. And I have no power, no way to handle them, but I would stand up if under proper circumstances.

  Billy Graham

  Country, New York, Mean

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• There is Israel, for us at least. What no other generation had, we have. We have Israel in spite of all the dangers, the threats and the wars, we have Israel. We can go to Jerusalem. Generations and generations could not and we can.

  Elie Wiesel

  War, Generations, Jerusalem

  Elie Wiesel, Robert Franciosi (2002). “Elie Wiesel: Conversations”, p.96, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• The atoms of Democritus
  And Newton's particles of light
  Are sands upon the Red Sea shore,
  Where Israel's tents do shine so bright.

  William Blake

  Light, Sea, Shining

  William Blake (2000). “The Selected Poems of William Blake”, p.108, Wordsworth Editions

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• For twelve successive Congresses we have appeared before committees of the two Houses making this plea, that the underlying principle of our Government, the right of consent, shall have practical application to the other half of people. Such a little simple thing we have been asking for a quarter of a century. For over forty years, longer than the children of Israel wandered through the wilderness, we have been begging and praying and pleading for this act of justice. We shall some day be heeded.

  Susan B. Anthony

  Children, Simple, Years

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, Matilda Gage, Harriot Stanton Blatch, Ida H. Harper (2017). “THE HISTORY OF WOMEN’S SUFFRAGE - Complete 6 Volumes (Illustrated): Everything You Need to Know about the Biggest Victory of Women’s Rights and Equality in the United States – Written By the Greatest Social Activists, Abolitionists & Suffragists”, p.4240, e-artnow

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• When will the veil be lifted that casts so black a night over the universe? God of Israel, lift at last the gloom: For how long will you be hidden?

  Jean Racine

  God, Faith, Night

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• It is crystal clear to me that if Arabs put down a draft resolution blaming Israel for the recent earthquake in Iran it would probably have a majority, the U.S. would veto it and Britain and France would abstain.

  Amos Oz

  Iran, Earthquakes, France

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• Mathematicians tend to prefer a worst-case analysis, a kind of paranoia that is especially understandable if you live in Israel!

  Noga Alon

  Science, Analysis, Kind

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• Why is Netanyahu pushing war? Among several reasons, demonizing Iran reduces pressure on Israel to negotiate seriously with the Palestinians. Many Israelis prefer building Jewish settlements on Palestinians' land instead. Moreover, Israel's rulers oppose any development-such as an Iranian-U.S. detente-that could diminish Israel's U.S.-financed hegemony in the region. War with Iran would be a catastrophe all around. Netanyahu and his hawkish American allies-the same people who gave us the disastrous Iraq war and ISIS-must be repudiated.

  Sheldon Richman

  War, Isis, Iran

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• Israel deserves America's friendship in reality - not just in rhetoric.

  Eric Cantor

  Reality, America, Rhetoric

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• Israel is moving from the realm of poetry to the realm of prose.

  Shimon Peres

  Moving, Realms, Prose

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• All in all, the communally reared children of Israel are far from the emotional disasters that psychoanalytic theory predicted. Neither have they been saved from all personality problems, as the founders of the kibbutz movement had hoped when they freed children from their parents. In any reasonable environment, children seem to grow up to be themselves. There is no evidence that communal rearing with stimulating, caring adults is either the ruination or the salvation of children.

  Sandra Scarr

  Children, Growing Up, Caring

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• In fact some Jews themselves even claim that there should be a statue to Adolf Hitler in Israel because he created the state of Israel...which is absolutely true, without Adolf Hitler Israel woud not exist

  Eustace Mullins

  Facts, States, Claims

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• We tie ourselves in knots when we act as if democracy is good for the United States and Israel but not for the Arab world. For far too long, we've treated the Arab world as just an oil field.

  Nicholas D. Kristof

  Spring, Oil, Ties

  "What Egypt Can Teach America" by Nicholas D. Kristof, www.nytimes.com. February 12, 2011.

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• Israel has legitimate concerns about its security relative to Iran. I mean, you have a large country with a significant military that has proclaimed that Israel shouldn't exist, that has denied the Holocaust, that has financed Hezbollah, and as a consequence, there are missiles that are pointed towards Tel Aviv. There are very good reasons why Israelis are nervous about Iran's position in the world generally.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Military, Mean

  News Conference on Iran Deal, edition.cnn.com. July 15, 2015.

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• The real problem, if you look at how, for example, Hezbollah got a lot of missiles that are a grave threat to Israel, it's not because they were legal, it's not because somehow that was authorized under international law; it was because there was insufficient intelligence or capacity to stop those shipments.

  Barack Obama

  Real, Law, Example

  Press Conference by the President, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. July 15, 2015.

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• Women are a key part of the sound of the groups that accompany male singers like Kirk Franklin, Israel Houghton, and myself.

  Fred Hammond

  Keys, Sound, Males

  "Fred Hammond on His New Group United Tenors, and the Return of the Male Gospel Ensemble". Interview with Nakiyah Hayling, www.essence.com. March 23, 2013.

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• Without a Palestinian partner, Israel needs to take the initiative itself.

  Avi Dichter

  Needs, Initiative, Partners

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• Contrary to many of the rumors and innuendo in circulation, I wholeheartedly believe that Obama views Israels security as absolute.

  Edgar Bronfman, Sr.

  Believe, Views, Rumor

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• On a trip to Israel, Sarah Palin asked the Israelis why they're apologizing all the time. They responded saying, 'Because we told everyone Tina Fey was coming.'

  Conan O'Brien

  Fey, Apologizing, Palin

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