Israeli Military Quotes

#1. In November 2008, the day of the presidential election, Israeli military forces invaded Gaza and killed half a dozen Hamas militants. Well, that was followed by a missile exchange for a couple of weeks in both directions.

Noam Chomsky

#2. When Arab apologists wring their hands over an Israeli military incursion, they never mention what the Israelis are reacting to, or else diminish and distort it.

Jack Schwartz

#3. The Israeli military believes it has destroyed all of Hamas's tunnels, or at least all the ones it knew about.

Richard Engel

#4. Palestine is occupied land, and under international law, the Palestinians have the legal right to resist this occupation by any and all means. This may make busses, restaurants, discos-where Israeli military congregate, lawful targets.

Enver Masud

#5. The Israeli military plays more than a critical role in defending the citizens of the Jewish state. It also plays an important social, scientific and psychological role in preparing its young citizens for the challenging task of being Israelis in a difficult world.

Alan Dershowitz

#6. The definition of terrorism has to be more precise, so that we are able to discriminate between, for example, what it is that the Palestinians are doing to fight the Israeli military occupation and terrorism of the sort that resulted in the World Trade Center bombing.

Edward Said

#7. You are here, alive and awake and for whatever reasons you have fought your battles, it's time to start focusing on what strengths pulled you up when the entire world had knocked you down.
That's where the virtue in self grows.

Nikki Rowe

#8. Keep your mind centered on that which leads to light, intensively. Accept no substitute.

Frederick Lenz

#9. You win a fight, you learn from it. You lose a fight, you learn from it.

Uriah Hall

#10. Forever and ever, brother, hail. Forever and ever, farewell.

Cassandra Clare

#11. What we do know is that the era of climate change is upon us and the extraordinary in California today will become the ordinary of tomorrow.

Chris Hayes

#12. A senior Israeli intelligence officer explained that the IDF attacked "both aspects of Hamas - its resistance or military wing and its dawa, or social wing," the latter a euphemism for the civilian society.

Noam Chomsky

#13. My poor mom really wants me to meet someone. I think she wanted to believe the Ryan Gosling rumor more than anybody,

Michelle Williams

#14. I mean if you put all of your eggs in one basket, boy, and that thing blows up you've got a real problem.

Jerry Bruckheimer

#15. There's been moments of depression in my life, moments when I was in situations that I thought I wouldn't be able to get out of.

Stephen Baldwin

#16. The close Turkish-Israeli relations go back to the late 1950s - military intelligence, commercial, more recently, tourism and cultural relations.

Noam Chomsky

#17. The result is that you are now experiencing what we experienced in the war in Algeria: The Israeli government says that it is a victim of terrorist activity, but this activity is less visible than the military strikes.

Jean-Marie Le Pen

#18. You can't have occupation and human rights.

Christopher Hitchens

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

Ehud Olmert

#20. When we were younger, my cousins used to jump in front of cars with masks on and start dancing really funny or making funny moves and the people in the cars would start laughing.

Leo Santa Cruz

#21. We're going to make sure, regardless of disagreements we have on policy, that our military and intelligence cooperation to keep the Israeli people safe continues and that cooperation also helps the American people stay safe.

Barack Obama

#22. You have to give the press confrontations. When you give them confrontations, you get attention; when you get attention, you can educate.

Newt Gingrich

#23. It is an exaggeration to call the Hamas and Islamic Jihad announcement a military alliance. It is rather a message that our people are united in the face of Israeli aggression.

Ahmed Yassin

#24. If you look at military and intelligence positions from the 1950s, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has always been against American national interests.

Abdallah II Of Jordan

#25. The star-crossed lovers

Suzanne Collins

#26. The State of Israel has faced obstacles and challenges to its very survival, with conventional military attacks leading the way to suicide bombers who have killed innocent Israeli men, women, and children.

Jerry Costello

#27. We must all realise that the Israeli society is a military society - men and women. We cannot describe the society as civilian ... they are not civilians or innocent.

Yusuf Al-Qaradawi

#28. I definitely have a strong sense of my Jewish and Israeli identity. I did my two-year military service; I was brought up in a very Jewish, Israeli family environment, so of course my heritage is very important to me.

Gal Gadot

#29. Her hands cupped his face, thumbs caressing his cheekbones. "I love you, Mr. Bennett."
"Good thing. Hate to be the only one afflicted.

Ellen O'Connell

#30. We are in a strange world,' one senior Israeli official said to me, 'where the defense minister and to a lesser degree the prime minister are focused intently on the military option, and the intelligence services and the military, with some exceptions, are deeply doubtful.

David E. Sanger

#31. I heard an Israeli speaking on Palestinian human rights issues, an interesting guy, and he said 'There's no military solution to terrorism. If there were, Israel would be the safest place in the world. But there's no military solution.'

Bradley Whitford