Jews Quotes
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It would be my greatest sadness to see Zionists do to Palestinian Arabs much of what Nazis did to Jews.
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There are Jews who came from 102 countries and speak 81 languages - how do you consolidate them into one nation? This is where I saw my role.
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The Holocaust was perpetrated by the Nazis for very specific reasons. They saw in the Jews the ultimate enemy, who was behind all the other enemies they had. And the Jews were in their eyes Satan; coming from a Christian background, although anti-Christian, if somebody was Satan you knew what to do with him. Murder him. Kill him. Annihilate him. Ultimately. Perhaps drive him out first. And then finally when this didn't work kill him. And it wasn't really directed against the Jews of country X but against the concept of the Jew. The Jew. Anywhere. Everywhere. At all times. Forever. And that is unique. That has never happened before but it can happen again. The idea of some powerful force that unless it is totally annihilated there's no chance for your survival. That was the Nazi ideology.
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In the Middle Ages and beyond, the target was the Court Jew who had the ear of the ruler; during the Inquisition it was the Spanish Jews who thrived after their conversion to Christianity.
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When people criticize Zionists, they mean Jews. You are talking anti-Semitism.
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It is time the Arabs and the Jews sat down and settled this dispute in the true Christian spirit.
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No one said anything to my face, but I constantly heard comments denigrating Jews.
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We Jews have no other means of self-defense than our solidarity.
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The paradox of anti-Semitism is that it is invariably up to the Jews to explain away the charges. The anti-Semite simply has to make them.
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Jewish existence in the Land of Israel depends only on the Jews, and on what the Jews think of themselves.
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There's also a certain rhythm to the way Jews talk that might be funny.
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The mandate we have as Jews is for the story of the Exodus from Egypt to be retold every generation.
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The evidence of a Jewish civilization going back more than two millennia is overwhelmingly borne out in the archaeology of the region. The heritage of the Jews in Palestine is documented.
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For centuries, the Muslims were able to co-exist perfectly well with Jews and Christians in the Middle East.
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I am not a lover of Israel, of course. I have no reason to be. But I don't hate Jews.
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The most important sign in Matthew has to be the restoration of the Jews to the land in the rebirth of Israel.
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Jews had an outsider's eye on a lot of Western tradition.
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The official Hamas charter calls for the murder of Jews and destruction of the Jewish state.
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Jews are not part of a European ruling class imposed on helpless natives, but are caught up in a tragedy in which two peoples are struggling for the same piece of land.
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'The New World Haggadah' is meant for American Jews in the 21st century.
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The Jews are the living embodiment of the minority, the constant reminder of what duties societies owe their minorities, whoever they might be.
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Moses freed the Jews. Lincoln freed the slaves. I freed the neurotics.
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The metaphor of Exodus is one that has dogged the Jews from the outset. Their very success attracts resentment.
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Jews have a tendency to become comedians.
