Israeli Quotes

• It is the duty of Israeli leaders to explain to public opinion, clearly and courageously, a certain number of facts that are forgotten with time. The first of these is that there is no Zionism, colonialization, or Jewish State without the eviction of the Arabs and the expropriation of their lands.

  Ariel Sharon

  Israel, Land, Numbers

  Agence France Presse, en.wikipedia.org. November 15, 1998.

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• I vow that if I was just an Israeli civilian and I met a Palestinian I would burn him and I would make him suffer before killing him.

  Ariel Sharon

  Israel, Suffering, Killing

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• The use of force, including beatings, undoubtedly has brought about the impact we wanted - strengthening the [occupied] population's fear of the Israeli Defense Forces.

  Yitzhak Rabin

  Impact, Population, Defense

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• I were an Arab leader, I would never sign an agreement with Israel. It is normal; we have taken their country. It is true God promised it to us, but how could that interest them? Our God is not theirs. 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?

  David Ben-Gurion

  Country, Taken, Israel

  "The Jewish Paradox". Book by Nahum Goldmann, p. 121, 1978.

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• Israeli lives are worth more than Palestinian ones.

  Ehud Olmert

  Israel, Palestinian

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• Goyim were born only to serve us. Without that, they have no place in the world - only to serve the People of Israel,. Why are gentiles needed? They will work, they will plow, they will reap. We will sit like an effendi and eat. That is why gentiles were created.

  Ovadia Yosef

  Hate, Work, Israel

  "Christmas 2015 Brings More Misery, Poverty and Dispossession for Bethlehem and Palestinians" by Raouf Halaby, www.counterpunch.org. December 25, 2015.

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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, Israel

  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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• There is not one single place built in this country that did not have a former Arab population.

  Moshe Dayan

  Country, Israel, Cleansing

  "The Racism Barrier" by M.Junaid Alam, www.counterpunch.org. October 3, 2003.

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• Let me tell you something that we Israelis have against Moses. He took us 40 years through the desert in order to bring us to the one spot in the Middle East that has no oil!

  Golda Meir

  Funny, Humorous, Oil

  Speech at state dinner forWilly Brandt, Jerusalem, 10 June 1973

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• We walked outside, Ben-Gurion accompanying us. Allon repeated his question, What is to be done with the Palestinian population?' Ben-Gurion waved his hand in a gesture which said 'Drive them out!

  Yitzhak Rabin

  Israel, Hands, Population

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• We are the only people on Earth asked to guarantee the security of our occupier...while Israel is the only country that calls for defense from its victims.

  Hanan Ashrawi

  Country, War, Israel

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• Arabs may have the oil, but we have the matches.

  Ariel Sharon

  Oil, May, Politician

  "Zealots for Zion: Inside Israel's West Bank Settlement Movement". Book by Robert I. Friedman, 1992.

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• Capitol Hill is Israeli occupied territory.

  Pat Buchanan

  Territory, Hills, Capitol Hill

  "Is Perry Anderson lost in the lobby?" by Alan Johnson, www.theguardian.com. January 30, 2008.

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• I never thought I'd live to see the day that an American administration would denounce the state of Israel for rebuilding Jerusalem.

  Mike Pence

  Israel, America, Political

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The Zionists indeed learnt well from the Nazis. So well that it seems that their morally repugnant treatment of the Palestinians, and their attempts to destroy Palestinian society within Israel and the occupied territories, reveals them as basically Nazis with beards and black hats.

  Norman Finkelstein

  Israel, Black, Society

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• The quiet that envelops space makes the beauty even more powerful, and I only hope that the quiet can one day spread to my country.

  Ilan Ramon

  Beauty, Hope, Country

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• If we wish that the name Israel be not extinguished, then we are in duty bound
  to create something which may serve as a center for our entire people, like the
  heart in an organism, from which the blood will stream into all the arteries of
  the national body and fill it with life.

  Eliezer Ben-Yehuda

  Life, Heart, Israel

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• Israel was born out of Jewish terrorism. Jewish terrorists hanged two British sergeants and booby-trapped their corpses.

  Gerald Kaufman

  Israel, History, Terrorism

  House of Commons Debates, publications.parliament.uk. January 15, 2009.

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• In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel. Defeat Jihad

  Pamela Geller

  War, Islamic, Men

  FaceBook post by Pamela Geller from Dec 05, 2016

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• Behind every terrorist stand dozens of men and women, without whom he could not engage in terrorism. They are all enemy combatants, and their blood shall be on all their heads. Now this also includes the mothers of the martyrs, who send them to hell with flowers and kisses. They should follow their sons, nothing would be more just. They should go, as should the physical homes in which they raised the snakes. Otherwise, more little snakes will be raised there.

  Ayelet Shaked

  Mother, Women, Flower

  "Letter from America: Israeli Jews, Hate Crime and Hate Speech" by Dr. Habib Siddiqui, asiantribune.com. July 27, 2014.

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• I'm very pro-Israel. In fact, I was the head of the Israeli Day Parade a number of years ago, I did a commercial for [Benjamin] Netanyahu when he was getting elected, he asked me to do a commercial for him, I did a commercial for him.

  Donald Trump

  Years, Numbers, Israel

  "Meet the Press" with Chuck Todd, www.nbcnews.com. February 21, 2016.

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• I think we give Jimmy Carter too much credit to think he knew what was going to happen when he used the word "apartheid." It's provocative, but it was like a nuclear bomb in Israel. And yet that word is used all the time in the Israeli press. There's a double standard there. He probably picked it up in Israel, as it's commonly discussed. I'd be a little surprised if he understood how it was going to be used against him. He doesn't have a highly developed emotional detector. As a politician, that was a weakness.

  Lawrence Wright

  Thinking, Emotional, Giving

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• From 1949 to the present, for every dollar the US spent on an African, it spent $250.65 on an Israeli, and for every dollar it spent on someone from the Western Hemisphere outside the US, it spent $214 on an Israeli.

  Ahdaf Soueif

  Atheism, Dollars, Hemisphere

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• In order to be a realist, you must believe in miracles.

  David Ben-Gurion

  Inspirational, Funny, Believe

  Television broadcast, CBS, 5 Oct. 1956

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• There are lots of grounds for hope in Israeli society. We are seeing Israelis getting fed up with war, looking for solutions. The youngest soldiers are refusing to serve in the Occupied Territories. Some are volunteering for army combat units but are refusing to serve in the Occupied Territories. We have the elite of the Israeli army, the air force pilots, some of them refusing orders which they consider illegal.

  Uri Avnery

  War, Army, Air

  Source: progressive.org

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