Israel Quotes
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The whole world must see that Israel must exist and has the right to exist, and is one of the great outposts of democracy in the world.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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The special relationship between the United States and Israel still stands. Our total committments to Israel's security and our hope for peace is still preeminent among all the other considerations that our Nation has in the Middle East ... But there need be no concern among the Israeli people nor among Jews in this country that our Nation has changed or turned away from Israel.
Jimmy Carter
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Invariably, also a Palestinian state should live side by side with Israel within recognized and secure borders and the security and prosperity of the Palestinian people must be guaranteed.
Recep Tayyip Erdogan
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You can't ignore reality. You won't wake up one morning and find that the Arabs of Umm al-Faham have become part of Palestine and are no longer in Israel.
Ami Ayalon
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If this be the Messiah, then I do not wish to see his coming
Ahad Ha'am
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What is the alternative to peace? A catastrophe for both peoples [Palestine and Israel].
Uri Avnery
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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
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The stranger in ancient Israel did not serve as a judge, although he received all the benefits of living in the land. The political question is this: By what biblical standard is the pagan to be granted the right to bring political sanctions against God's people? We recognize that unbelievers are not to vote in Church elections. Why should they be allowed to vote in civil elections in a covenanted Christian nation? Which judicial standards will they impose? By what other standard than the Bible?
Gary North
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Anybody who recognizes Israel will burn in the fire of the Islamic nation's fury.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
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Israel's middle class is paying for those below it, and that's fine, but also for those who are above it, and that's very wrong.
Yair Lapid
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I never thought that Syria and Israel should engage in a violent confrontation because I don't think that there is any particular interest for any of us to do it.
Ehud Olmert
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We clarified that without a clear abandonment of the path of terror, a recognition of Israel's right to exist in security and peace ... Israel won't have any contact with the Palestinians.
Ehud Olmert
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I'm always in favor of Israel responding strongly when it's threatened.
Steven Spielberg
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Growing up in Israel, how can I not be an optimist? When you remember what Israel was 50 years ago and you see Israel now, one of the most successful countries in the world, stable, democratic, with an enormously stable economy despite everything that has happened in the global economy in the last few years, how can I not be an optimist?
Ehud Olmert
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There is an element of paranoia in this inclination to view any serious attempt at a compromised peace as somehow directed against Israel.
Zbigniew Brzezinski
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Hitler had this deal where he was supposed to make it rough on them so they would all get out and migrate to Israel because they needed people there to fight the Arabs.
Hutton Gibson
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Peace with Israel is a strategic imperative for Jordan.
Abdullah II of Jordan
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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
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Israel is in the midst of a difficult military and diplomatic campaign against terrorists. An organisation that works to prove allegations that Israel is committing war crimes should be so good as to do so with its own resources and not with civilian national service volunteers and state funds.
Uri Orbach
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The kind of problem that America faces in Iraq is a little bit the kind of problem that Israel faced in dealing with Hezbollah. If the conflict, the theater of conflict enlarges, it's going to become more and more absorbing and more and more costly.
Zbigniew Brzezinski
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As an Israeli, I have come to understand: there is no way to love Israel and reject a two-state peace, no way to love Israel and reject Palestine.
Yael Dayan
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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
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Friends of mine that are from here or that have spent time here have told me about Israel and how warm the people are and that I should someday come here.
Chris Cornell Soundgarden
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There is no crisis at all between the European Union and Israel. If there was a crisis, we would not be here.
Javier Solana