Israel Quotes - Page 20

• Israel is in the midst of a difficult military and diplomatic campaign against terrorists. An organisation that works to prove allegations that Israel is committing war crimes should be so good as to do so with its own resources and not with civilian national service volunteers and state funds.

  Uri Orbach

  Military, War, Volunteer

  "Israel bans national service with rights group B'Tselem in Gaza row" by Orlando Crowcroft, www.theguardian.com. August 15, 2014.

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• This decree is very serious and we will not allow it to pass unopposed. (on Israel offers 10-month West Bank settlement freeze)

  Uri Orbach

  Months, West, Serious

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• This is entertainment, not Judaism, I think the general public will celebrate this, but the religious public will be indifferent. (on Madonna's visit to Israel)

  Uri Orbach

  Religious, Thinking, Entertainment

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• Israel has been extremely aggressive, they have continued with their settlement policies, they have continued demolitions, they have continued with their occupation policies which entail a humiliation of Palestinians, which makes the (peace) process difficult.

  Margot Wallstrom

  Peace, Occupation, Demolition

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• There won't be a Palestinian state within Israel.

  Naftali Bennett

  States, Palestinian

  "Naftali Bennett interview: 'There won't be a Palestinian state within Israel'". Interview with Harriet Sherwood, www.theguardian.com. January 7, 2013.

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• The history of Israel is divided into two parts. One, under attack that we have had to defend ourselves. When you defend yourself your thinking is totally different from when you want to make peace. So under attack you behave like if you want a hawk, when peace comes you become a dove.

  Shimon Peres

  Thinking, Two, Different

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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• Palestinians are becoming religiously fanatic. Israel is becoming irrelevant. They do it for religious purpose, fanatic, they want to conquer the Middle East under the command of the Iranians.

  Shimon Peres

  Religious, Middle East, Purpose

  Source: www.sbs.com.au

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• [Ben Carson] critics say that your inexperience shows. You've suggested that the Baltic States are not a part of NATO, you were unfamiliar with the major political parties and government in Israel, and domestically, you thought Alan Greenspan had been treasury secretary instead of federal reserve chair.

  Megyn Kelly

  Party, Government, Political

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• What the Iranians have said is, "we will wipe Israel off the face of the map, and we will bring death to America." When someone points a gun at your head and loads it, by God, you ought to take them seriously, and we need to take that seriously.

  Mike Huckabee

  Gun, America, Wipe

  Mike Huckabee at GOP primary debate at Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland, Ohio, www.washingtonpost.com. August 6, 2015.

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• We turned our back on Israel, our ally. You know, and a situation like that, of course [Barack]Obama's not going to be able to do anything. I would shore up our military first, because if you don't get the military right, nothing else is going to work.

  Benjamin Carson

  Military, Allies, Able

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• I still say exactly what my original opinion is. Do you borrow money from China to send it to anyone? Out of your surplus, you can help your allies, and Israel is a great ally. And this is no particular animus of Israel, but what I will say, and I will say over and over again, we cannot give away money we don't have.

  Rand Paul

  Giving, Allies, Helping

  Rand Paul during GOP primary debate at Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland, Ohio, www.washingtonpost.com. August 6, 2015.

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• I don't disagree with Senator Paul's position that we shouldn't be funding our enemies. But I absolutely believe that Israel is a priority to be able to fund and keep them strong and safe after eight years of this administration.

  Chris Christie

  Strong, Believe, Eight

  Chris Christie at GOP primary debate in Cleveland, Ohio, www.washingtonpost.com. August 6, 2015.

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• In the long term, Israel's security rests on only one pillar: the Palestinians' acceptance of the country. It isn't the atom bomb that makes Israel secure.

  Daniel Barenboim

  Country, Acceptance, Long

  "The Germans Are Prisoners of Their Past". Interview with Joachim Kronsbein and Bernhard Zand, www.spiegel.de. June 22, 2012.

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• Germany will never be a real, free thinking and free feeling friend of Israel, because it will always fall under this shadow.

  Daniel Barenboim

  Real, Fall, Thinking

  "'The Germans Are Prisoners of Their Past'". Interview with Joachim Kronsbein and Bernhard Zand, www.spiegel.de. June 22, 2012.

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• European anti-Semitism goes much further back than to the partition of Palestine and the establishment of Israel in 1948. It even goes further back than the Holocaust.

  Daniel Barenboim

  Holocaust, Establishment, Palestine

  "The Germans Are Prisoners of Their Past". Interview with Joachim Kronsbein and Bernhard Zand translated by Christopher Sultan, www.spiegel.de. June 22, 2012.

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• There are probably many people in Israel who believe that Wagner, who died in 1883, lived in Berlin in 1942 and was friends with Hitler.

  Daniel Barenboim

  Believe, People, Berlin

  Interview with Joachim Kronsbein and Bernhard Zand, www.spiegel.de. June 22, 2012.

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• Israel's strategy cannot be to constantly confront the Palestinians with the history of the Holocaust, but instead to show them that Israel is a reality.

  Daniel Barenboim

  Reality, Holocaust, Strategy

  "The Germans Are Prisoners of Their Past". SPIEGEL interview, www.spiegel.de. June 22, 2012.

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• In a place like Israel, they're very concerned with Iran, so there's a lot of interest. So they want to see what this Iranian from France has to say in her comics. I guess that's good. My the books are coming out in other countries. And each time, they discover something different to be interested in.

  Marjane Satrapi

  Country, Book, Iran

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• Big efforts should be made to integrate Israel's Arab citizens into the fabric of the Israeli society and the Israeli economy. That's really the key to any further progress to do with the Palestinians beyond Israel's borders.

  Moshe Arens

  Keys, Effort, Progress

  Source: www.middleeasteye.net

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• Gaza is such a tremendous humanitarian problem, it's way beyond Israel's capability to do anything significant about. It's a world problem, but the world doesn't want to do anything about it. That the world has packed them like sardines in a tiny piece of territory run by a fanatic Islamic group, run by a fanatic group like Hamas. Unless the world decides it wants to tackle this problem, that they want to deal with refugees there, prepare to absorb some of the refugees.

  Moshe Arens

  Running, Islamic, Groups

  Source: www.middleeasteye.net

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• Well I haven't seen any free elections in the Arab world. They may be coming someday, except for in Israel. In Israel, Arabs have a chance to participate in free elections. Nowhere else really.

  Moshe Arens

  World, May, Chance

  Source: www.middleeasteye.net

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• On a crowded bus in Israel, a mother was speaking to her son in Yiddish. An Israeli woman reprimanded her. "You should be speaking Hebrew. Why are you talking to him in Yiddish?" The mother answered, "I don't want he should forget he's a Jew."

  Kirk Douglas

  Funny, Mother, Humor

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• I will insist that the Hebrews have done more to civilize man than any other nation.

  John Adams

  Men, Presidential, Done

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• The poor and needy search for water, but there is none; their tongues are parched with thirst. But I the LORD will answer them; I, the God of Israel, will not forsake them. I will make rivers flow on barren heights, and springs within the valleys. I will turn the desert into pools of water, and the parched ground into springs.

  Isaiah

  Spring, Rivers, Water

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• There is no truth which the prophets press more steadily upon Israel than that all their national life lies in the sight and on the care of God.

  George A. Smith

  Lying, Sight, Care

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