Israel Quotes - Page 22

• The Master knows better than to exhaust His servants and quench the light of Israel. Rest time is not waste time. It is economy to gather fresh strength.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Light, Waste, Wasting Time

  Charles H. Spurgeon (2010). “Lectures to My Students”, p.194, Zondervan

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• Our basic objective will be the destruction of Israel. The Arab people want to fight.

  Gamal Abdel Nasser

  Fighting, People, Want

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• I grew up in different orphanages in Israel, and if they gave me a pair of shoes, a shirt, and pair of pants every year, I was lucky. The rest was handouts, leftover clothes. So I appreciated clothes because I only had one new shirt each year.

  Elie Tahari

  Years, Shoes, Clothes

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• I am in hell already. I am in Israel.

  Al Sharpton

  Hell

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• If Iran invaded Israel, it's up to Congress to declare war.

  Ron Paul

  War, Iran, Congress

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• The US and Israel have demanded further that Palestinians not only recognize Israel's rights as a state in the international system, but that they also recognize Israel's abstract right to exist, a concept that has no place in international law or diplomacy, and a right claimed by no one. In effect, the US and Israel are demanding that Palestinians . . . formally accept the legitimacy of their expulsion from their own land. They cannot be expected to accept that, just as Mexico does not grant the US the right to exist on half of Mexico's territory, gained by conquest.

  Noam Chomsky

  Law, Land, Rights

  "On Israel, the US and Turkey". Interview with Sabahattin Atas, chomsky.info. September, 2003.

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• For me, Jerusalem was united, will be under Israel sovereignty, will be the capital of Israel and the heart of the Jewish people.

  Yitzhak Rabin

  Heart, People, Jerusalem

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• I invite President Assad to come to Jerusalem and to speak with me, with our parliament, with whomever he wants to speak in Israel and in the territories among the Palestinians.

  Yitzhak Rabin

  President, Jerusalem, Want

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• Steps toward a rapprochement between Israel and the Arab states create a process that turns economics into the moving force that shapes the regional relations instead of nationalist interests that were dominant in the past.

  Yitzhak Rabin

  Moving, Past, Shapes

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• Vis a vis the Golan Heights, the present government of Israel, under my leadership, is the first government that is ready to speak about a withdrawal.

  Yitzhak Rabin

  Government, Withdrawal, Height

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• We appreciate the efforts of the United States, of the president, of the secretary of state, and we are ready to find any form of talks, but we have to overcome the differences between Syria and Israel to reach peace.

  Yitzhak Rabin

  Differences, Appreciate, Effort

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• What I, as the prime minister of the present government of Israel, started to do, is first to tackle the longest part of the Arab-Israeli conflict, the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.

  Yitzhak Rabin

  Government, Firsts, Conflict

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• While the Passover narrative [in Exodus] energizes Israel's imagination toward justice, Israel's hard work of implementation of that imaginative scenario was done at Mt. Sinai. . . . Moses' difficult work at Sinai is to transform the narrative vision of the Exodus into a sustainable social practice that has institutional staying-power, credibility, and authority.

  Walter Brueggemann

  Hard Work, Difficult Work, Practice

  Walter Brueggemann (1999). “The Covenanted Self: Explorations in Law and Covenant”, p.49, Fortress Press

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• It is my strong belief that Israel has not just the right but the obligation to protect itself.

  Barack Obama

  Strong, Belief, Protect

  Remarks by President Obama and Prime Minister Netanyahu of Israel Before Bilateral Meeting, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. November 9, 2015.

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• I don't think that anyone should doubt Israel's determination to defend itself against terror and destruction.

  Benjamin Netanyahu

  Determination, Thinking, Doubt

  Remarks by President Obama and Prime Minister Netanyahu of Israel Before Bilateral Meeting, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. November 9, 2015.

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• I came to Paul at quite an early age, having already studied Plato and Aristotle; and I found Paul easily their intellectual equal, though he was handling these amazing questions about God, Jesus, Israel, faith and so on. He continues to be an amazingly stimulating thinker, especially when we try to understand the flow of thought in letter after letter rather than just combing him for a few verses on 'our favourite topics', which, sadly, some Christian teachers do just as some journalists and broadcasters do!

  N. T. Wright

  Christian, Teacher, Jesus

  Source: kenwytsma.com

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• Israel is a very young country, a cultural melting pot, and unlike the structured life of the Orthodox Jews, I grew up in a non-religious part of society where people were totally open to new experiences on many levels. I learned that when things are missing, you invent them.

  Noma Bar

  Country, Religious, New Experiences

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• We are in a period called post. In previous periods, anti-Semitism was always direct. Today's anti-Semitism isn't direct. If you say today that the Jews are absolute evil, or Israel is absolute evil, you must say Israeli is committing genocide against the Palestinians. It is very rare to find a Western politician who repeats these things.

  Manfred Gerstenfeld

  Evil, Today, Politician

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• The Arab countries in the Middle East have for decades demonized Israel, to Western leadership, which for reasons not entirely clear, listen to them politely. The Bush Administration, for example, was infiltrated by the Muslim Brotherhood years before Obama began mainstreaming them and allowing them to have positions of influence within the White House.

  Manfred Gerstenfeld

  Country, Years, White

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• The NGOs in Israel should devote more time to monitoring religious anti-Israel groups, chief among them the so-called "Christian Palestinianists."

  Manfred Gerstenfeld

  Christian, Religious, Groups

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• Arabs and their allies are conducting a total war against Israel. A total war means a war of lies. The PA [Palestinian Authority] promotes lies; lying in Islam is permitted.

  Manfred Gerstenfeld

  War, Lying, Mean

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• Protestants are the more segmented group. Mainline churches - you have problems in the U.S., Europe, the Scottish Church, the Dutch Protestant Church, the state church in Norway. The evangelicals have been pro Israel, but a major effort is to bring them in on the Palestinian side. A huge problem and the problems are rising.

  Manfred Gerstenfeld

  Europe, Effort, Church

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• Media turned against Israel was a gradual process. And it has gotten worse over the years. I think the main development was the 1982 Lebanon War.

  Manfred Gerstenfeld

  War, Thinking, Media

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• Another touchy point: the inability of successive Israeli governments to deal with the propaganda war. Israel has a brilliant instrument in the IDF. We have a cyber-war unit which may become the best unit in the world to fight cyber problems. On the propaganda war...it is a large failure.

  Manfred Gerstenfeld

  War, Fighting, Government

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• Israel is the largest American aircraft carrier in the world that cannot be sunk, does not carry even one American soldier, and is located in a critical region for American national security.

  Alexander Haig

  Soldier, Doe, Aircraft Carriers

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