Quotes About Israeli Settlements

#1. America does not accept the legitimacy of continued Israeli settlements.

Barack Obama

#2. They've (Israel) lost the battle for public opinion. They claim it's because American Jews know too little.. I claim it's because they know too much about the conflict, and young liberal Jews have difficulty defending the use of cluster bombs in Lebanon or supporting the Israeli settlements.

Norman Finkelstein

#3. It's very hard, for example, to justify the thirty-four-year occupation of the West Bank and Gaza. It's very hard to justify 140 Israeli settlements and roughly 400,000 settlers.

Edward Said

#4. On taking office in 2009, U.S. President Barack Obama put Israeli settlements at the center of U.S. policy in the Middle East.

Elliott Abrams

#5. You know the words from the Bible: 'Build not on sand, but on rock ... ' Tyrant leaders respect only firmness ... and laugh at persons who give in to them.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#6. The core issue here is that the Israeli government refuses to commit to terms of reference for the negotiations that are based on international law and United Nations resolutions, and that it frantically continues to intensify building of settlements on the territory of the State of Palestine.

Mahmoud Abbas

#7. People hide their truest nature. I understood that; I even applauded it. What sort of world would it be if people bled all over the sidewalks, if they wept under trees, smacked whomever they despised, kissed strangers, revealed themselves?

Alice Hoffman

#8. Riley asked himself why he had ever considered space travel romantic. "Because you are a romantic," his pedia said.

James Edwin Gunn

#9. ..you should write. It's better than succumbing to the madness of the world... And cheaper than pills

David Arnold

#10. Every single diet I ever fell off of was because of potatoes and gravy of some sort.

Dolly Parton

#11. The other three orderlies who accompanied him are critical in the hospital.'
'Critical?'
'Yes. Don't like the food, beds uncomfortable, waiting lists too long - usual crap. Other than that they're fine.

Jasper Fforde

#12. If you followed the media you'd think that everybody in Africa was starving to death, and that's not the case; so it's important to engage with the other Africa.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#13. Somehow, bad news, however ridden with static, however filled with echoes, always manages to be conveyed.

Jhumpa Lahiri

#14. As long as they keep building settlements, the world will be anti-Israeli.

Zubin Mehta

#15. Without [the settlements] the IDF (Israeli Defense Force) [Israeli Defense Force] would be a foreign army ruling a foreign population.

Moshe Dayan

#16. Israel and the Palestinians had been at the table together for decades until the Obama/Mitchell/Rahm Emanuel decision to demand a total end to Israeli construction froze not the settlements but the diplomacy.

Elliott Abrams

#17. Though he was scared even to look up, much less down, he raised his hands and caught the side of the gondola. With a stream of curse words known principally to the fourth class of the Accademia San Pietro in Rome, he pulled himself back.

Mark Helprin

#18. To say that everything without exception is going straight to hell is not an alternative vision but only an inversion of the mainstream's 'everything's fine.'

Rebecca Solnit

#19. I am young! Being creative and keeping your brain occupied is very sensible because if you don't you die, slowly.

Anthony Hopkins

#20. But stories are worlds. New worlds for us to visit. In stories, we live forever.

Joanne Harris