Israeli Quotes - Page 11

• Are you an Israeli? I don't debate with Israelis. I have been misled, sorry. I don't recognise Israel and I don't debate with Israelis.

  George Galloway

  Sorry, Israel, Debate

  "George Galloway refuses to debate with Israeli student at Oxford" by Warren Murray, Sam Jones, www.theguardian.com. February 21, 2013.

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• I, serial number 30743, Lieutenant General in reserves Yitzhak Rabin, a soldier in the Israeli Defense Forces and in the army of peace, I, who have sent armies into fire and soldiers to their death, say today: We sail onto a war which has no casualties, no wounded, no blood nor suffering. It is the only war which is a pleasure to participate in - the war for peace.

  Yitzhak Rabin

  Peace, War, Army

  Yitzhak Rabin's speech to the US Congress, July 26, 1994.

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• The Israeli-Palestinian conflict and Jihadism have nothing to do with each other.

  Steven Spielberg

  Arab Israeli Conflict, Palestinian, Conflict

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• They've (Israel) lost the battle for public opinion. They claim it's because American Jews know too little.. I claim it's because they know too much about the conflict, and young liberal Jews have difficulty defending the use of cluster bombs in Lebanon or supporting the Israeli settlements.

  Norman Finkelstein

  Knowledge, Israel, Battle

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• Vice-President Ford, possibly preparing for higher duties, assessed Kissinger's part in the Syrian-Israeli troop disengagement as "the great diplomatic triumph of this century or perhaps any other.

  Edwin Newman

  President, Vices, Triumph

  Edwin Newman (1974). “Strictly Speaking: Will america be the Death of English?”

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• If there is a birthrate demographic problem, and there is, it is with the non-White races Israeli Arabs who are American will remain Israeli citizens.

  Benjamin Netanyahu

  Race, Ku Klux Klan, White

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• Israeli interests are not necessarily in harmony with the American interests.

  Bashar al-Assad

  Harmony, Interest

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• The Israeli people must be free to live in peace and security.

  Chuck Hagel

  People, Peace And Security, Security

  Chuck Hagel, Charles Timothy Hagel (2008). “America: our next chapter : tough questions, straight answers”, Ecco Pr

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• In fact, the Iraqi foreign minister admitted in March 2003 that Iraqi funds were sent to families of Palestinian suicide bombers who attacked and killed innocent Israeli citizens, and also 12 Americans in Israel in 2003.

  Jim Gerlach

  Suicide, Israel, Facts

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• The most important thing in the Land of Israel is to build, build, build. Its important that there will be an Israeli presence everywhere. Our principal problem is still Israels leaders unwillingness to say in a simple manner that the Land of Israel belongs to the People of Israel.

  Naftali Bennett

  Simple, Israel, Land

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• To avoid manufactured misunderstandings, the policies of Israeli governments are not analogous to Nazism. They do not aim at the systematic extermination of the Palestinian people, in the way Nazism sought the annihilation of the Jews.

  Ken Livingstone

  Government, People, Nazism

  "This is about Israel, not anti-semitism" by Ken Livingstone, www.theguardian.com. March 4, 2005.

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• I’m a United States senator. I’m not an Israeli senator.

  Chuck Hagel

  United States, Senators, States

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• Only a few years ago did it suddenly dawn on me that my existential fear regarding my nation’s future and my moral outrage regarding my nation’s occupation policy are not unconnected. On the one hand, Israel is the only nation in the West that is occupying another people. On the other hand, Israel is the only nation in the West that is existentially threatened. Both occupation and intimidation make the Israeli condition unique. Intimidation and occupation have become the two pillars of our condition.

  Ari Shavit

  Unique, Hands, Years

  Ari Shavit (2013). “My Promised Land: The Triumph and Tragedy of Israel”, p.10, Spiegel & Grau

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• Unless and until something concrete is done about addressing the Israeli-Palestinian issue you won't get a real start on the war against terrorism.

  Bob Hawke

  Real, War, Issues

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Perhaps areas of Israel where current large Palestinian populations and demographic realities exist could be exchanged for Israeli expansion into the West Bank to include most of East Jerusalem

  Geraldo Rivera

  Reality, Israel, Expansion

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• Moreover, resolving the mother of all problems - the Israeli-Palestinian question - requires cooperation between Europe and the U.S.

  Romano Prodi

  Mother, Europe, Cooperation

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• Together, these advocates create a pro-Israeli case so compelling that the idea and reality of Israel has worked itself deep into American culture, politics and foreign policy. Many American Jews refuse to accept it, but the real debate between Israel’s supporters and detractors in America is all but over.

  Aaron David Miller

  Real, Ideas, America

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• This rally must send a message to the Israeli people, to the Jewish people around the world, to the many people in the Arab world, and indeed to the entire world, that the Israeli people want peace, support peace. For this, I thank you.

  Yitzhak Rabin

  Israel, People, Support

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• The cartoonist’s task is not so much to be balanced as to give balance, particularly in situations of disproportionate power relationships such as we see in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

  Michael Leunig

  Giving, Balance, Tasks

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• On the McLaughlin Report, August 26, 1990: 'There are only two groups that are beating the drums for war in the middle East, the Israeli Defense Ministry and its amen corner in the United States.

  Pat Buchanan

  War, August, Two

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• The military operation in Lebanon was the most successful military operation in recent Israeli history. Many in Israel don't recognise that.

  Ehud Olmert

  Military, Successful, Israel

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• The core issue here is that the Israeli government refuses to commit to terms of reference for the negotiations that are based on international law and United Nations resolutions, and that it frantically continues to intensify building of settlements on the territory of the State of Palestine.

  Mahmoud Abbas

  Government, Law, Issues

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• Now, the other pillar of Israeli power - Western support and complicity - is starting to crack. We must do all we can to push it over.

  Ali Abunimah

  Support, Cracks, Pillars

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• The Israeli regime is a tool in the hands of Zionists to control the Middle-East and the entire world.

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

  Israel, Hands, Middle East

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• The United States-Israeli relationship is based on the broadest conception of American national interest in which our two nations are bound forever together by common democratic values and traditions. This will never change.

  Colin Powell

  Two Nations, Israel, Forever

  McConnell Center Address on U.S. Role in Arab-Israeli Conflict, delivered 19 November 2001

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