Israeli Quotes

• We had hoped to celebrate the Israeli democracy today in a different atmosphere, and now we are again forced to cope with murderous terror. The government of Israel will do what must be done in order to deal with the terrorists and those who dispatch them.

  

  Ehud Olmert
  • Different
  • Done
  • Today

• There are people who think I am Israeli. That's rubbish.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • People
  • Rubbish
  • Israeli

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

  

  Bashar al-Assad
  • American
  • Harmony
  • Israeli

• Sadly, the same leaders who call on Palestinians to abandon violence have been silent in the face of Israeli repression. By condemning violent Palestinian resistance while remaining silent in the face of Israeli crackdowns and political arrests, they are simply endorsing violence against civilians by one side instead of the other.

  

  Yousef Munayyer
  • Face
  • Repression
  • Israeli

• The sun began to set behind Bethlehem and the beams were breaking through some white and gray clouds. There was a slight and beautiful chill from the autumn air. I gave thanks for that beautiful day and for the fact that the sun does not know Palestinian from Israeli, Christian from Muslim or Jew, and Asian from American or African, and I asked myself: If the sun shines on all of us as one, how much more does the sun's Creator see and love us all as one?

  

  Ted Dekker
  • American
  • Beautiful
  • Christian

• When the world looks at America, what it sees is an Israeli colony.

  

  Paul Craig Roberts
  • America
  • Israeli
  • Colony

• I was talking to my friend who's Israeli and she said that from the moment you're born, you're taught to hate the Palestinians. That's it. That's your life. That's what you learn from day one.

  

  Jill Soloway
  • Hate
  • Moments
  • Born

• We need to separate the two peoples: Israeli Arabs are part and parcel of Israel, and Palestinians should be separate, as part of a two-state solution.

  

  Isaac Herzog
  • Separate
  • Palestinians
  • Israeli

• Through their actions, every Israeli leader since the onset of the peace process with the PLO has shown a willingness to appease the PLO. Some leaders—like Shimon Peres, Barak, and Ehud Olmert—have stated their willingness to give the Palestinians almost everything they claim they want. Other leaders, like Netanyahu, who do not believe in the Palestinians’ good intentions, nevertheless have bowed to U.S. pressure and continued on with the fraudulent peace process.

  

  Caroline Glick
  • Leader
  • Willingness
  • Appease

• Today, Israeli democracy has spoken its piece, in a loud and clear voice.

  

  Ehud Olmert
  • Today
  • Democracy
  • Voice

• Israeli lives are worth more than Palestinian ones.

  

  Ehud Olmert
  • Worth
  • Palestinian
  • Israeli

• I advocate the modification of the '67 borders to let about half of the Israeli stay in Palestine.

  

  Jimmy Carter
  • Borders
  • Palestine
  • Modification

• I write in a slangy colloquial speech that has not been common in the Israeli tradition of writing, and that is one of the things that gets lost a little in translation.

  

  Etgar Keret
  • Common
  • Tradition
  • Translations

• We did not fight the Americans or the Europeans. We fight only the Israeli enemy that took our homes and homeland.

  

  Ahmed Yassin
  • Enemy
  • Fight
  • Israeli

• From the sea came a boat with some Israeli commando soldiers who took me by the commando boat to the yacht and put me on the yacht. In the yacht I asked people, who are you. And they said we are Israelis, French and British.

  

  Mordechai Vanunu
  • People
  • Said
  • British

• I am an Israeli-born American citizen.

  

  Guy Oseary
  • American
  • Citizen
  • Israeli

• I think the U.S. leaders should do more to support our Israeli allies and the Palestinians to find peace.

  

  Evan McMullin
  • Support
  • Leaders
  • Allies

• I'm not Israeli and because I'm not a citizen, it doesn't matter how often I go there - I'm still not Israeli. There's this way I feel so close to so many people there, but I always feel like I'm staring through the glass. And in a way, having this really thin piece of glass between me and this place is incredibly useful for me as a writer, because I'm just so hyper-aware of it. I could take a walk in San Francisco and probably notice a third of the things that I would notice in Israel, because I'm just attuned to everything when I'm there.

  

  Molly Antopol
  • People
  • Pieces
  • Glasses

• It took me many years to understand that my identity is more Israeli than Jewish.

  

  Mili Avital
  • Identity
  • Israeli

• In the little travel I've done to other countries, the Jews there embraced me saying, Come to our house, come and have Shabbat with us. Jews in the Diaspora. I didn't imagine an Israeli traveling to the U.S. would feel this intensity of a forced relationship.

  

  Jill Soloway
  • Country
  • House
  • Imagine