Israel Quotes - Page 8

• We can forgive [the Arabs] for killing our children. We cannot forgive them for forcing us to kill their children. We will only have peace with [the Arabs] when they love their children more than they hate us...

  Golda Meir

  Children, Hate, Forgiving

  "Hollywood Executives Condemn 'Hamas Terrorists' in ADL Ad" by Tina Daunt, www.hollywoodreporter.com. August 19, 2014.

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• We should prepare to go over to the offensive. Our aim is to smash Lebanon, Trans-Jordan and Syria. The weak point is Lebanon, for the Moslem regime is artificial and easy for us to undermine. We shall establish a Christian state there and then we will smash the Arab Legion, eliminate Trans-Jordan; Syria will fall to us. We then bomb and move on and take Port Said, Alexandria and Sinai.

  David Ben-Gurion

  Christian, Moving, Fall

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• The bottom line is this: Peace will come to Israel and the Middle East only when the Israeli government is willing to comply with international law, with the Roadmap for Peace, with official American policy, with the wishes of a majority of its own citizens - and honor its own previous commitments - by accepting its legal borders. All Arab neighbors must pledge to honor Israel's right to live in peace under these conditions.

  Jimmy Carter

  Commitment, Law, Government

  Jimmy Carter (2006). “Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid”, Simon and Schuster

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• Arafat rejected the deal because, as a dictator who had directed all his energies toward strengthening the Palestinians hatred toward Israel, Arafat could not afford to make peace.

  Natan Sharansky

  Peace, Hatred, Energy

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• Israel has always been and must always be America's strongest ally.

  George Pataki

  America, Allies, Strongest

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• Without Hitler, the State of Israel probably would not exist today. To that extent he was probably the Jews' greatest friend.

  David Irving

  Today, States, Jew

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• If Europe thinks Jews will return to the days where we were forced to mark our products - you can forget it. De-legitimization of parts of Israel by Europe is the new anti-Semitism. The old anti-Semitism led to the destruction of our people in gas chambers. We will not allow the new anti-Semitism to hurt us.

  Ayelet Shaked

  Hurt, Thinking, Europe

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• I always enjoy coming to Israel. Israelis are warm, they're energetic people. Forthright. Very smart. I always like smart people. They're nice people, you know. Aggressive, and I respect that aggressiveness because you need it in their situation.

  Robert De Niro

  Nice, Smart, People

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• I am proud of my part in the creation of this new state. Our Government was the first to recognize the State of Israel.

  Harry S. Truman

  Government, Presidential, Firsts

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• Everyone should unconditionally accept that Israel is an indispensable element of the Middle Eastern mosaic.

  Recep Tayyip Erdogan

  Mosaics, Elements, Accepting

  "Democracy in the Middle East, PluralIism in Europe: Turkish View". The Turkish Weekly, October 12, 2004.

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• I think that a strong Israel is the only Israel that will bring the Arabs to the peace table.

  Benjamin Netanyahu

  Strong, Thinking, Tables

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• There has been Anti-Semitism, the Nazis, Hitler, Auschwitz, but was that their fault? They see but one thing: we have come and we have stolen their country. Why would they accept that?

  Nahum Goldmann

  Country, Cleansing, Faults

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• Jewish villages were built in the place of Arab villages. You do not even know the names of these Arab villages, and I do not blame you, because these geography books no longer exist; not only do the books not exist, the Arab villages are not there either. Nahalal arose in the place of Mahalul, Gevat - in the place of Jibta, Sarid - in the place of Haneifs and Kefar Yehoshua - in the place of Tell Shaman. There is no one place built in this country that did not have a former Arab population.

  Moshe Dayan

  Country, Book, Names

  Moshe Dayan's address to the students at Technion University in Haifa, Israel (March 19, 1969), a transcription of which appeared in Ha'aretz (April 4, 1969); later quoted in Edward W. Said "The Question of Palestine" (p. 14), 1980.

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• The past leaders of our movement left us a clear message to keep Eretz Israel from the Sea to the River Jordan for future generations, for the mass aliya, and for the Jewish people, all of whom will be gathered into this country.

  Yitzhak Shamir

  Country, Past, Sea

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• Israel should have exploited the repression of the demonstrations in China, when world attention focused on that country, to carry out mass expulsions among the Arabs of the territories.

  Benjamin Netanyahu

  Country, Should Have, Attention

  "Netanyahu on peace". Speech at Tel Aviv's Bar Ilan University, Israel, www.aljazeera.com. November 24, 1989.

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• If we thought that instead of 200 Palestinian fatalities, 2,000 dead would put an end to the fighting at a stroke, we would use much more force.

  Ehud Barak

  Fighting, Use, Cleansing

  "German man killed in renewed Israeli assault". www.theguardian.com. November 16, 2000.

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• I believe that in the long run, separation between Israel and the Palestinians is the best solution for resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

  Yitzhak Rabin

  Running, Believe, Long

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• The Holocaust never quite leaves Israeli Jews alone. Arabs use it against them and they use it against Arabs. Jews use it against other Jews. Even the president of the United States, it seems, can use it against the prime minister of Israel.

  David K. Shipler

  Holocaust, President, United States

  David K. Shipler (2015). “Arab and Jew: Wounded Spirits in a Promised Land”, p.470, Broadway Books

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• Peace for us means the destruction of Israel.

  Yasser Arafat

  Islamic, Mean, Destruction

  The Times, August 5, 1980.

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• Iran has long sponsored terrorists who carry out homicide bombings in Israeli cities. However, it is a mistake to believe the danger Iran poses is directed at Israel alone.

  John Doolittle

  Mistake, Believe, Iran

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• Jerusalem Syndrome is actually a rare psychological condition that occurs to some visitors to the Middle East. They get to Israel and just snap.

  Marc Maron

  Easter, Middle East, Jerusalem

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• The greatest security for Israel is to create new Egypts.

  Ronald Reagan

  Egypt, Politics, Security

  Observer, February 27, 1983.

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• I would not rule out going to Israel because I disapprove of the foreign policy any more than I would refuse to play in the UK because I disapprove of Tony Blair's foreign policy.

  Roger Waters

  Play, Blair, Foreign Policy

  "Breaking down the wall" by David Hirsh, www.theguardian.com. June 22, 2006.

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• We do not wish and do not need to expel Arabs and take their places.

  David Ben-Gurion

  Scary, Cleansing, Terrorism

  Letter to his son Amos on October 5, 1937. "Fabricating Israeli History: The 'New Historians'" by Efraim Karsh, 1997.

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• The settlement of the Land of Israel is the essence of Zionism. Without settlement, we will not fulfill Zionism. It's that simple.

  Yitzhak Shamir

  Simple, Land, Essence

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