Israel Quotes - Page 30

• Israel has obviously not liberated the Palestinians in Gaza or the West Bank. We have occupied them, but we have not liberated them.

  Amos Oz

  West, Palestinian, Gaza

  Source: www.spiegel.de

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I don't think Israelis are less critical of corruption than people in Italy, France or America. Israel is special in a different way. There is a daytime Israel and a nighttime Israel. The first is self-confident, pushy and passionate, like other Mediterranean lands. It is hedonistic, materialistic and almost arrogant. During the nighttime, people are terrified, people are filled with existential dreads. These fears aren't baseless.

  Amos Oz

  Thinking, America, Self

  Source: www.spiegel.de

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• It's possible a Palestinian state will be installed over the heads of the Palestinians. It could be part of an agreement between the Israeli government and moderate Arab states, but not one between Israel and the Palestinians.

  Amos Oz

  Government, Agreement, States

  Source: www.spiegel.de

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I never understood liberal Jews blaming Israel, you know, supporting Palestinians. I've never understood it, until I spoke once to a man named Norman Podhoretz, and he said to me, "Many of you refer to liberal Jews that way. They're not Jews. They are liberals. Liberalism is what is first and foremost in their identity. The fact that they are Jews is not paramount or prominent. It's secondary - and, in many cases, even tertiary - to their identity."

  Rush Limbaugh

  Men, Identity, Firsts

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Trump's done nothing but be a great friend of Israel, and yet he's being tagged with anti-Semitism here. It doesn't make any intellectual sense.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Intellectual, Done, Great Friend

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• Israel is the American watchdog in the Middle East, and that's why the Palestinians remain victims of one of the longest military occupations.

  John Pilger

  Military, Middle East, Occupation

  Source: progressive.org

  12 Copy quote

  Show source

• Israel is the representative of the United States in the Middle East. Its policies are so integrated with American policies that they use the same language. If you read Sharon's statements and George W. Bush's statements, they're virtually identical.

  John Pilger

  Middle East, United States, Use

  Source: progressive.org

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Look at the Israel-Palestine conflict, for example. If you look at a map from 1947 to now, you'll see that Israel has gobbled up almost all of Palestinian land with its illegal settlements. To talk about justice in that battle, you have to talk about those settlements. But, if you just talk about human rights, then you can say, "Oh, Hamas violates human rights," "Israel violates human rights." Ergo, both are bad.

  Arundhati Roy

  Land, Rights, Justice

  Source: www.truth-out.org

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• The Bible portrays God as entering into covenants with people which, when broken, causes him grief and sorrow. The biblical prophet Hosea and God's using him as an illustration of how much Israel's idolatry costs God emotionally points to God's vulnerability. But also the incarnation of God in Jesus Christ who, even as God the Son, suffered for our sins, points to God's vulnerability.

  Roger E. Olson

  Jesus, Grief, Biblical

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I think people need to see on both sides. Seeing how the people in the Palestinian Territories can't move around - it's a maze now, with the wall, the road blocks and everything else. It takes you hours to get from one person's house to your job or to a friend or even to the hospital if someone's hurt. Then you go into Israel and see in Tel Aviv, where they have 12-18 bomb threats a day, which are real. It completely disrupts their life. Or Sderot where bombs are falling daily from the sky fired by Hamas militants in the Gaza Strip.

  Morgan Spurlock

  Hurt, Jobs, Wall

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• If you want to find weapons of destruction, you can find them all over the place. Take, say, Israel. There is a very great concern right now about proliferation of nuclear weapons, as there should be. 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, Want

  Source: progressive.org

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• Biblical archaeology was developed early in this century in an effort to substantiate the authenticity of the Biblical account. It's by now generally recognized in Biblical scholarship that it has done the opposite. The Bible is not a historical text, and has only vague resemblances to what took place, as far as can be reconstructed. For example, whether Israel ever existed is not clear; if so, it was probably a small kingdom somewhere in the hills, apparently virtually unknown to the Egyptians.

  Noam Chomsky

  Biblical, Opposites, Effort

  Source: chomsky.info

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• Elements of the Christian fundamentalist right are one of the strongest components of "support for Israel" - support in an odd sense, because they presumably want to see it destroyed in a cosmic battle at Armageddon, after which all the proper souls will ascend to heaven - or so I understand, again, not from close reading.

  Noam Chomsky

  Christian, Reading, Support

  Source: chomsky.info

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• For thirty years, Isreal has been highjacking ships in international waters, killing people, taking hostages, bringing them to Israel, putting them in secret prisons, all with the help of the United States. That's serious piracy.

  Noam Chomsky

  Years, People, Water

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• For decades Israel has been capturing, and kidnapping Lebanese and Palestinian refugees on the high seas, from Cyprus to Lebanon, killing them in Lebanon, bringing them to Israel, holding them as hostages. It's been going on for decades, has anybody called for an invasion of Israel?

  Noam Chomsky

  Sea, Cyprus, Lebanon

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• You can't mention Hezbollah in the U.S. media without putting in the context of "Iranian-supported Hezbollah." That's its name. Its name is Iranian-supported Hezbollah. It gets Iranian support. But you can mention Israel without saying US-supported Israel. So this is more tacit propaganda.

  Noam Chomsky

  Media, Names, Support

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• There was a free election in Palestine, but it came out the wrong way. So instantly, the United States and Israel with Europe tagging along, moved to punish the Palestinian people, and punish them harshly, because they voted the wrong way in a free election. That's accepted here in the West as perfectly normal. That illustrates the deep hatred and contempt for democracy among western elites, so deep-seated they can't even perceive it when it's in front of their eyes. You punish people severely if they vote the wrong way in a free election.

  Noam Chomsky

  Eye, Europe, Perfectly Normal

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• Hamas must agree to first recognize Israel, second to end all violence, third to accept past agreements. Try to find a mention of the fact that the United States and Israel reject all three of those. They obviously don't recognize Palestine, they certainly don't withdraw the use of violence or the threat of it - in fact they insist on it - and they don't accept past agreements, including the road map.

  Noam Chomsky

  Past, Agreement, Trying

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• I've occasionally been asked to talk on Israel-Palestine. Sometimes it works, and sometimes it elicits hysteria in the community.

  Noam Chomsky

  Hysteria, Community, Sometimes

  Source: www.truth-out.org

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• I think it is less the limited amount of information than the filters that information about the Middle East must pass through before being fairly addressed in the mainstream media. In more intellectual and geopolitical terms, the perceptions of the region are distorted by a combination of Orientalism and the priorities of the state of Israel, including the refusal to discuss the relevance of Israel's nuclear weapons arsenal in the context of addressing Iran on its nuclear program.

  Richard A. Falk

  Thinking, Media, Iran

  Source: www.truth-out.org

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Israel produces and stores chemical weapons. So therefore the US will prevent the Chemical Weapons Convention from being imposed on the Middle East. But it's necessary to evade this by misrepresenting the convention, and I think maybe 100 percent of the media, or close to it, go along. But that's a critical issue. Actually, Syria's chemical weapons were developed largely as a deterrent to Israeli nuclear weapons. Also, not mentioned.

  Noam Chomsky

  Thinking, Media, Issues

  Source: www.truth-out.org

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• What is the most entrepreneurial country in the Middle East today? It's Lebanon. Which country has no oil or gas? Lebanon. The same was true of Israel, the same was of Bahrain. You could see a real gradation. Turkey, for instance: no oil and gas, very entrepreneurial. You can either dig your future out of the ground or you can unlock the potential of your people.

  Thomas Friedman

  Country, Real, Turkeys

  8 Copy quote

• America was the funder of petro-dictatorships. We treated all these countries as basically big, large gas stations: Libya station, Iraq station, Iran station, Egypt station, Syria station, and all we asked of them were three things: Keep your palms open, your prices low and don't bother Israel too much, and you can do whatever you want to your own people.

  Thomas Friedman

  Country, Egypt, Iran

  9 Copy quote

• As long as the Children of Israel saw Pharaoh as a friend, they could not see Moses and Jehovah as their true friend. As they came into consciousness - by the wicked things that Pharaoh continued to do against them - that Pharaoh was indeed their enemy, then Moses and Jehovah's call to them to separate from Pharaoh to build a nation of their own became a reality.

  Louis Farrakhan

  Children, True Friend, Reality

  Source: www.finalcall.com

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• Whether you want to say Israel practices apartheid is immaterial. They are doing things, given their history, you think, "Do you remember what happened to you?" Then they clobber you and say, "You are anti-Semitic."

  Desmond Tutu

  Thinking, Practice, Want

  Source: sojo.net

  6 Copy quote

  Show source