Israel Quotes - Page 25

• I think living in Israel and wanting to change reality is the best prescription for never-ending writer's block.

  Etgar Keret

  Block, Reality, Thinking

  "Etgar Keret: We Can Try to Be Human". Interview with Meakin Armstrong, www.guernicamag.com. August 17, 2015.

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• I think that, in Israel, the greatest fear that people have, and I have it, too, is fear of genocide.

  Etgar Keret

  Thinking, Greatest Fear, People

  "Etgar Keret: We Can Try to Be Human". Interview with Meakin Armstrong, www.guernicamag.com. August 17, 2015.

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• People in Israel would write in a high register, they wouldn't write colloquial speech. I do a special take on colloquial speech. When I started writing, I thought [the language] was telling the story of this country: old people in a young nation, very religious, very conservative, very tight-assed, but also very anarchistic, very open-minded. It's all in the language, and that's one thing that doesn't translate.

  Etgar Keret

  Country, Religious, Writing

  "Etgar Keret: We Can Try to Be Human". Interview with Meakin Armstrong, www.guernicamag.com. August 17, 2015.

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• In 2004, I went to Israel and gave a speech that resulted in guns and ammunition being given to the South Sudanese rebels, specifically Commanders Athol's and Yaka's armies.

  Kola Boof

  Army, Gun, Rebel

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• I'm not so Pro-Israel'I'm Pro-Africa. Africa's greatest enemy of all time is the Arab Muslim Empire'they enslaved us for one thousand years and have committed untold atrocities and genocides against the East African people.

  Kola Boof

  Years, People, Enemy

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• We've always defined conflict fairly broadly from ideological conflict to troops on the ground. For quite some time we've talked about a focus on Palestine. Certainly no one can deny that Israel is conflict with Palestine and no one can deny that the U.S. is the largest supporter of Israel internationally - not only financially, but also in the United Nations where the United States is one of the very few countries that does not recognize Palestine as a state.

  Jon Rubin

  Country, Focus, United States

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• If we are not in conflict with Palestine than why are they so afraid of us presenting Palestinian voices? Of course the answer is obvious, and we see it throughout the U.S. and the world, controlling the master narrative of Israel means vigilantly controlling the narrative about Palestine.

  Jon Rubin

  Mean, Voice, Answers

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• My privilege as a white Jewish American in Israel is a major factor in getting me so much access to the key institutions of the Jewish state.

  Max Blumenthal

  Keys, White, Privilege

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• It was not the right-wing Russians or the gun-toting settlers who carried out the Nakba. The Nakba is the legacy of Zionism's putatively socialist wing. It was the grandfathers and mothers of the "enlightened public" of today's Israel who literally drove tens of thousands of indigenous Palestinians into the sea in 1947-48 all along the Mediterranean coast, or who marched them at gunpoint to Ramallah.

  Max Blumenthal

  Mother, Gun, Sea

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I think we need to draw a contextual distinction between what the neo-fascists of Europe would like to do and what the state of Israel has done.

  Max Blumenthal

  Thinking, Europe, Done

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• [Barack] Obama has betrayed Israel, gutted the military, and apologized on ten world tours.

  Marco Rubio

  Military, World, Betrayed

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• President Ahmadinejad said that the Zionist state of Israel should no longer exist as a political entity. This has always been the policy of successive Iranian governments such as those of President Khatami and President Rafsanjani.

  Mohammad Marandi

  Government, Political, President

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• With the Israel stories, it was for me the most surprising way the title would fit in. I kept thinking about, for a lot of my Israeli characters, what it was like to inherit such a complicated and symbiotic relationship to America and to feel how tangled that is, and it's nothing that they chose to do themselves.

  Molly Antopol

  Character, Thinking, America

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The Israel stories were really hard for me to write, because I think that my book is very much about politics, but it isn't political. It really was important for me to not have a political agenda at all, because I have a hard time stomaching any political fiction that feels message-y.

  Molly Antopol

  Book, Writing, Hard Times

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I'm not Israeli and because I'm not a citizen, it doesn't matter how often I go there - I'm still not Israeli. There's this way I feel so close to so many people there, but I always feel like I'm staring through the glass. And in a way, having this really thin piece of glass between me and this place is incredibly useful for me as a writer, because I'm just so hyper-aware of it. I could take a walk in San Francisco and probably notice a third of the things that I would notice in Israel, because I'm just attuned to everything when I'm there.

  Molly Antopol

  Glasses, San Francisco, People

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Israel has a couple of hundred nuclear weapons and also chemical and biological weapons. This stockpile is not only a threat in itself but encourages others to proliferate in reaction and in self-defense. Is anybody saying anything about this?

  Noam Chomsky

  Couple, Self, Defense

  Interview with David Barsamian, progressive.org. May 1, 2004.

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• Only in an Orwellian [Barack] Obama world full of sprinkly fairy dust broken from atop his unicorn as he's peeking through a really pretty pink kaleidoscope would he ever see victory or safety for America or Israel in this treaty. This treaty will not bring peace. You don't reward terrorism. You kill it!

  Sarah Palin

  Dust, America, Safety

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• I don't think the Palestinians are in this position they're in, divided with Hamas and the P.A., unwilling to allow - or recognize Israel as a Jewish state.

  David Brooks

  Thinking, States, Palestinian

  "Shields and Brooks on Netanyahu’s election provocation, human trafficking holdup". "PBS NewsHour" with Judy Woodruff, www.pbs.org. March 20, 2015.

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• I don't think he should make foreign policy on the basis of peak,but I don't think it can be overstated that Israel has been an embattled democracy that has enjoyed the bipartisan and overwhelming support of Americans. It has been a moral force.

  Mark Shields

  Thinking, Support, Democracy

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Israel is a country of six million people. They need the U.S. It used to be bipartisan on Israeli politics. You never messed with that relationship. The fact that [ Benjamin] Netanyahu is willing to do that, I thought would horrify voters more than it turned out it did.

  David Brooks

  Country, People, Needs

  "Shields and Brooks on Netanyahu's election provocation, human trafficking holdup". "PBS Newshour", www.pbs.org. March 20, 2015.

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• My experience as a Jewish American has often been as a spectator of one-sided conversations, or more like monologues, about Israel, Jewish History, Jewish identity, etc. Although there are profound divisions amongst Jews on all of these topics there are not many opportunities for deep and thoughtful dialogue about them.

  Jill Soloway

  Thoughtful, Opportunity, Jewish Identity

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I have never wanted to claim I know what is best for Israel.

  Jill Soloway

  Claims, Wanted, Knows

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I haven't made art about Israel. There's a covert subtext of Jewish identity in my artwork.

  Jill Soloway

  Art, Jewish Identity, Made

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Israel, in terms of Jewish values, and what I have been reading in Jewish papers, and hear from Jewish around the country, they are upset about Donald Trump.

  Juan Williams

  Country, Reading, Jewish Values

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• I don't think you have an anti-Israel background when it comes to Donald Trump.

  Brian Kilmeade

  Thinking, Trump, Backgrounds

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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