Top 100 Quotes About Israel
#1. The more vulgar apologists for U.S. and Israeli crimes solemnly explain that, while Arabs purposely kill civilians, the U.S. and Israel, being democratic societies, do not intend to do so. Their
Noam Chomsky
#2. As soon as, say, Saddam Hussein started bombing Israel with Scuds, everyone was like, 'Poor Israel.' But when Israel retaliates - and most of the time they then win - people turn against them.
Zubin Mehta
#3. And (HAMAS) instead offered alternative ideas on how to both confront Israel without surrendering and govern the Palestinians without corruption.
Khaled Hroub
#4. The fact that 'Scrubs' is so popular in Israel is very important to me. I feel like I'm helping to cancel out the thousands of years of oppression the Jewish people have suffered.
Zach Braff
#5. Israel has created a new image of the Jew in the world - the image of a working and an intellectual people, of a people that can fight with heroism.
David Ben-Gurion
#7. The United States recognizes the provisional government as the de facto authority of the new State of Israel.
Harry S. Truman
#8. Both during the elections and as Prime Minister, I have repeatedly and publicly said that I support the establishment of a Palestinian state alongside the State of Israel.
Ariel Sharon
#9. I believe the Palestinians have never indicated a willingness to meet our minimum requirements, which are recognition of Israel's permanence and legitimacy as a Jewish state and end of claims and end of conflict.
Michael Oren
#10. It's hard for a Jew of my generation, an American Jew, who is philo-Zionistic, not to romanticize Israel.
David Mamet
#11. On the other hand, the vast majority of all westernized countries, including every single European country along with Israel and Japan, do not offer birthright citizenship.
Nathan Deal
#12. The whole history of Israel, its ritual and its government, is explicable only as it is typical of the spiritual Israel, of the sacrifice on Calvary, of the precious blood which alone can wash away sin.
Abbott Eliot Kittredge
#13. I think Israel should be treated as an independent nation and not a puppet of our state.
Ron Paul
#14. For the earliest period of the history of Israel, all that precedes the building of the temple, not a trace can be found of any sanctuary of exclusive legitimacy.
Julius Wellhausen
#15. I've always wanted to come here. We don't get to hear about all the wonderful things in Israel, and just looking out my window here at the hotel and seeing the beautiful beach, my goodness, it's gorgeous! I'm sure I'll be going back with raving reviews.
Pamela Anderson
#16. Hamas has long been Israel's enemy, but in the wake of the Arab Spring, the group is empowered like never before.
Richard Engel
#17. When my grandchildren are older and my great-grandchildren start growing up, first of all, I want them to be in Israel. I don't want them to leave the country because they have no choice.
Dan Shechtman
#18. Today, Israel is stronger than ever. Israel has defensive tools of its own - those developed in the past and those developed today and those that will be developed tomorrow.
Shimon Peres
#19. The relationship between Israel and the United States is a bond of - it's just a very powerful bond. It was, it is, and will be and will continue to be.
Benjamin Netanyahu
#20. Some geopolitical conflicts are morally complicated. The Israel-Gaza war is not. It possesses a moral clarity not only rare but excruciating. [ ... ] For Hamas, the only thing more prized than dead Jews are dead Palestinians.
Charles Krauthammer
#21. I will tell you, as president, I'm not going to be neutral. America will stand unapologetically with Israel.
Ted Cruz
#22. If I knew that it would be possible to save all the children in Germany by bringing them over to England and only half of them by transporting them to Eretz Israel, then I opt for the second alternative.
David Ben-Gurion
#23. In my mind the city of Ariel is a thorn in Israel's side and a serious obstacle to peace.
Theodore Bikel
#24. Some say that this is the Israelis' original sin. With this I do not agree but I think we can call it Israel's immaculate misconception.
Avishai Margalit
#25. The bonds of trust between the United States and Israel have been frayed, but even the hostility and disrespect the Obama administration has shown has not severed those bonds.
Adam Hasner
#26. The spiritual kingdom of Israel, nevertheless, subsists not on ethnicity or family ties, but on faith.
James Mikolajczyk
#27. Since the Six-Day War, the whole world, which is the real arena of battle between us and the Palestinians, believes that Israel is right in regard to procedure, namely problems and disputes should be solved around the negotiating table.
Ehud Barak
#28. I put the 'fun' in fund-raising and the 'rah' in Israel.
Stewart Rahr
#29. They k set out from Elim, and all the congregation of the people of Israel came to the wilderness of Sin, which
Anonymous
#30. The Lord's sovereignty over Israel is not an abstract concept. He speaks to the will of Israel, summoning its people to follow him.
Thomas R. Schreiner
#31. The Hamas organization is explicitly dedicated to the destruction of Israel. That is not a rhetorical gimmick; it is its declared unwavering primary goal.
James Howard Kunstler
#32. I want a strong border. I do want a wall. Walls do work, you just have to speak to the folks in Israel. Walls work if they're properly constructed. I know how to build, believe me, I know how to build.
Donald Trump
#33. The nations of antiquity rolled away in the current of ages, Israel alone remained one indestructible edifice of gray antiquity ... preserved by an internal and marvelous power.
Isaac Mayer Wise
#34. We need to save the education system. We need to remove education from the framework of the political parties that rule in the State of Israel. We need to increase the allocation of long-term national resources to education and never touch them - no matter what.
Aaron Ciechanover
#35. U.S.-Israel relations are often depicted as an extended honeymoon, but that's a false image.
Elliott Abrams
#36. Who am I, that I should go unto Pharaoh, and that I should bring forth the children of Israel out of Egypt?
Moses
#37. David christened it: "This is the house of Yahzeh ha-Elohim [1 ahveh of the Gods], and this is the altar of the burnt offering for Israel" (xxii, 1)
Joseph Wheless
#38. It's not anti-semitic to criticize Israel, but it's the most socially acceptable pastime of anti-semites.
Annoymous
#39. I think that anyone who moves to establish a Palestinian state and evacuate territory gives territory away to radical Islamist attacks against Israel.
Benjamin Netanyahu
#40. The Jews took Israel from the Arabs after the Arabs had lived there for a thousand years. Israel, like South Africa, is an apartheid state.
Hendrik Verwoerd
#41. Israel has always been pro-American. Israel will always be pro-American.
Benjamin Netanyahu
#42. It's hard to find an emblem of cultural, national pride that burns as bright as Israel's success in classical music.
Zubin Mehta
#44. It was no accident that just minutes after Israel became a nation, the United States ... became the first nation in the world to recognize what was prophesized throughout the Old Testament about Israel returning after its absence.
Louie Gohmert
#45. It is important that the right of Israel to exist should be respected and also the viable Palestinian authorities, in terms of political and financial situation, be supported so that both can live side by side in peace and security. That is a two-state solution.
Ban Ki-moon
#46. With the common Iranian threat bringing the Sunni Arab world and Israel closer together, an Israeli-Palestinian peace would go a long way in improving relations and rebuffing Iran's regional ambitions.
Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
#47. The state of Israel seems to owe its very existence to the American Jewish vote, while at the same time consigning the non-religious to political oblivion.
Richard Dawkins
#48. It is in fact more important for us to know what God did to Israel, to His Son Jesus Christ, than to seek what God intends for us today.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
#49. Just as Israel became the first fruits of the world by entering into covenant with God, Jesus incarnated into the most genuine fruition of his essential character.
James Mikolajczyk
#50. In 2009, Hamas was relatively new to power. It had won elections just three years earlier and was flexing its newfound strength via a war with its old enemy, Israel, which it officially wants destroyed.
Richard Engel
#51. It is not permissible for a Muslim to buy products of the countries that are in a state of war with Islam and Muslims, for example, Israel.
Ali Al-Sistani
#52. I would like Israel to be a Jewish state, and therefore not to annex over 2 million Palestinians who live in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip to Israel, which will make Israel a bi-national state.
Yitzhak Rabin
#53. Psalm 73:1: "Truly God is good to Israel, to such as are pure in heart." Here the psalmist is speaking prophetically, distinguishing Israel as people whose hearts have been cleansed - which is possible only through the blood of Christ.
David Wilkerson
#54. There are only two ways to remove the president - if he violates the constitution or commits high treason. How could anyone accuse me of treason after I had terminated Israel's occupation of South Lebanon in 2000.
Emile Lahoud
#55. Iran has made vile comments, anti-Semitic comments, comments about the destruction of Israel. It is precisely for that reason that even before I became president, I said Iran could not have a nuclear weapon.
Barack Obama
#56. 6"This is what the LORD says - Israel's Kingt and Redeemer,u the LORD Almighty: I am the first and I am the last;v apart from me there is no God.w
Anonymous
#58. I challenge the homes of Israel to display on their walls great quotations and scenes from the Book of Mormon.
Ezra Taft Benson
#60. The tender mercies of the Lord are available to all of us and ... the Redeemer of Israel is eager to bestow such gifts upon us.
David A. Bednar
#61. Christ at the Checkpoint is primarily a public relations scheme to dissuade American evangelicals from pro-Israel views.
Mark Tooley
#62. God has given this way of life to Israel: to abstain from everything which is contrary to nature, that is to say, anger, fits of passion, jealousy, hatred and slandering the brethren; in short, everything that is characteristic of the old man.
Poemen
#63. He is, however," Amos continued, "keeping a constant rail gun lock on the Israel's reactor."
Holden ran his fingers through his hair. "So not too generous, then."
"Say pretty please, but carry a one-kilo slug of tungsten accelerated to a detectable percentage of c.
James S.A. Corey
#64. "Stand still" - keep the posture of an upright man, ready for action, expecting further orders, cheerfully and patiently awaiting the directing voice; and it will not be long ere God shall say to you, as distinctly as Moses said it to the people of Israel, "Go forward."
Charles Spurgeon
#65. Look, you're either a Zionist or an anti-Zionist: there's no middle way. Everyone who supports the state of Israel is a Zionist.
Tom Paulin
#66. One way and another, all three synoptic gospels are clear: in telling the story of Jesus they are consciously telling the story of how Israel's God came back to his people, in judgment and mercy.
N. T. Wright
#67. I believe that it is my responsibility as the prime minister of Israel to do whatever can be done to exploit the unique opportunities that lie ahead of us to move towards peace. Not everything can be done by one act.
Yitzhak Rabin
#68. Our Jewish friends are no more responsible for the actions of Israel or the Netanyahu Government than our Muslim friends are for those of various self-styled Islamic states or organisations.
Jeremy Corbyn
#69. In Israel, there is this reduction of the political discourse to something that is very limited. It's as if you have that pitch that only dogs can hear. Sometimes I feel I speak at such a pitch that very few people around me communicate with what I'm saying.
Etgar Keret
#70. I am certainly anti-Israel, and I have become anti-Semitic.
Roald Dahl
#71. The U.S. has a stronger military than Israel, but, but don't short-change Israel, either. Don't short-change them.
Benjamin Netanyahu
#72. On the other hand, we have in Israel, an Israeli government which has been elected by the Israeli people. Their political agenda is not for peace. They are from the camp anti-peace.
Rafik Hariri
#73. We were very pleased to have the opportunity to come to Israel and visit the holy sites in the Old City.
Ozzy Osbourne
#74. Because apparently One Direction's superpower is instant friendship. Someone should ship them to the Middle East so they can get to work on that Israel-Palestine thing.
Emma Chase
#75. Democrats and Republicans love Israel and all of us care about the existential threat to Israel from Iran.
Jane Harman
#76. You cannot like the word, but what is happening is an occupation
to hold 3.5 million Palestinians under occupation. I believe that is a terrible thing for Israel and for the Palestinians.
Ariel Sharon
#78. Steps toward a rapprochement between Israel and the Arab states create a process that turns economics into the moving force that shapes the regional relations instead of nationalist interests that were dominant in the past.
Yitzhak Rabin
#79. Yes, the existence of a separate Palestinian identity exists only for tactical reasons. The establishment of a Palestinian state is a new tool to continue the fight against Israel and for Arab unity.
Zuheir Mohsen
#80. LORD, the God of Israel, o enthroned above the cherubim, p you are the God, you alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth; you have made heaven and earth.
Anonymous
#81. If Israel is to please the Lord fully, they will live lives that are as distinctive among the nations as their Lord is different from pagan deities.
Max Anders
#82. This decree is very serious and we will not allow it to pass unopposed. (on Israel offers 10-month West Bank settlement freeze)
Uri Orbach
#83. In addition to removing our democratically elected government, Israel wants to sow dissent among Palestinians by claiming that there is a serious leadership rivalry among us. I am compelled to dispel this notion definitively.
Ismail Haniyeh
#84. The history of Israel is divided into two parts. One, under attack that we have had to defend ourselves. When you defend yourself your thinking is totally different from when you want to make peace. So under attack you behave like if you want a hawk, when peace comes you become a dove.
Shimon Peres
#85. However, there is no legal and legitimate state called Israel.
Hassan Nasrallah
#86. President Obama filled out his March Madness bracket. You can tell Obama's mind is elsewhere because his top two picks were Israel and Iran.
Conan O'Brien
#87. Israel has no better friend that America. And America has not better friend than Israel. We stand together to defend democracy. We stand together to advance peace. We stand together to fight terrorism.
Benjamin Netanyahu
#88. To Israel's faithful hosts in the past, as to its loyal sons and daughters of the present, the Siddur has been the gate to communion with their Father in Heaven; and, at the same time, it has been a mighty spiritual bond that unites them to their scattered brethren the world over.
Joseph Hertz
#89. One of the things that feels so challenging is how questioning Israel and the idea of a Jewish state somehow opens the door for other sorts of questions - and wounds.
Jill Soloway
#90. A challenge to the right of Israel to exist can be construed as a challenge to the existence of the Jewish people only if one believes that Israel alone keeps the Jewish people alive or that all Jews invest their sense of perpetuity in the state of Israel in its current or traditional forms.
Judith Butler
#91. She is an angel, how bad could it be?"
"Ask the first born of Israel when the Pharaoh pissed off Moses. Ask the salty residents of Sodom. Ask anyone who was not Noah or a fish once the Flood rolled in.
Thomm Quackenbush
#92. If Israel sent the IDF three kilometers into Lebanon and started digging trenches and building bunkers it would make news all over the world. But Syria does it and everyone shrugs. Hardly anyone even knows it happened at all.
Michael Totten
#93. The borders of Israel and Palestine should be based on the 1967 lines with mutually agreed swaps, so that secure and recognized borders are established for both states. The Palestinian people must have the right to govern themselves and reach their potential, in a sovereign and contiguous state.
Barack Obama
#94. In Israel, generally speaking, politics is much more familiar than any other place. We all know each other.
Ehud Barak
#95. The Holocaust is a central event in many people's lives, but it also has become a metaphor for our century. There cannot be an end to speaking and writing about it. Besides, in Israel, everyone carries a biography deep inside him.
Aharon Appelfeld
#96. I have had people come to the site from all over the world. The US and Canada predominantly, but also Brazil and South Africa and Greece and Indonesia and Hong Kong and Ireland and Argentina and Spain and Israel and Australia.
Sophie Blackall
#97. Hebrew Confederate Cemetery on Shockoe Hill, which is the only Jewish military cemetery in the world outside the state of Israel. The
Maureen Egan
#98. I tell you the truth, the Son of Man* will return before you have reached all the towns of Israel.
Anonymous
#99. Christians have no greater ally than Israel.
Ted Cruz
#100. What Israel wants is peace with - and the acknowledgment of - all the Arab countries.
Elliott Abrams
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