Israel Quotes · Page 139

Israel has every right to defend itself against terror and truculence, and the United States stands behind our Israeli allies.

— John E. James

I am a little Jew of Vitebsk. All that I paint, all that I do, all that I am, is just the…

— Marc Chagall

Growing up in California, my best friend was Morris Rabinowitz and we often went to the Yiddish Theater.

— Frank Sinatra Jr

The Iranian regime, in my mind, is the single most enduring threat to stability and peace in the Middle East.

— Jim Mattis

The Arabs are terrorists and Israel is making the world a safer place.Well done Israel.

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

Those who insist on transferring the Iranian nuclear dossier to the UN Security Council have received an additional argument for doing so.

— Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

No country in the world is going to recognize that Ariel and Maaleh Adumim and Beit El are a sovereign part of…

— Naftali Bennett

“...differences between the world's Muslim communities are less important than what they share-namely, Islamism, sharia, and the dream of caliphate.”

— Hamed Abdel-Samad

It is not our place to decide who should lead the Iraqi people. If Saddam [Hussein] leaves or has to be forced…

— Colin Powell

Only if we accept the proposition that the state of Israel is the exclusive and legitimate representative of the Jewish people would…

— Judith Butler

We expect President Bush to implement his own vision of a two-state solution, the birth of the Palestinian State and the ending…

— Mahmoud Abbas

Terrorism needs to be de-legitimized in the way that slavery has been. Doing so will make governments and individuals think twice before…

— Richard N. Haass

Iraq did not spontaneously opt for disarmament. They did it as part of a ceasefire, so they were forced to do it,…

— Hans Blix

The high probability is if American forces withdraw from Afghanistan and if no alternative international arrangement is made that then the historic…

— Henry Kissinger

Every religion oppresses women. I talk about the Koran because I know this book best. It allows for torture and other mistreatment,…

— Taslima Nasrin

People in the Pentagon had colleagues killed and maimed by bin Laden. They're trying to find bin Laden and kill him and…

— Bruce Sterling

Not only the Jew, but also all that is derived from the Jewish mind, corrodes and disintegrates what is best in us.

— Houston Stewart Chamberlain

The U.S. engages with North Korea, so I don't see why they can't engage with Iran.

— Mohamed ElBaradei

The charges that I am anti-Semitic are simply erroneous, felonious, and unceremonious. In fact, when I need a doctor, I always look…

— Jesse Jackson

Engaging Iran won't guarantee improved U.S.-Iranian relations or a more stable Gulf region. But not engaging means more of the same.

— Samantha Power

If Islam's sole interest is the welfare of mankind, then Islam is the strongest advocate of human rights anywhere on Earth.

— Mos Def

The atmosphere is different in Congress after September 11. Terrorism is no longer an abstract issue, but a real, tangible threat.

— Howard Berman

The very point of Labor's Zionist program is to have as much land as possible and as few Arabs as possible!

— Yitzhak Navon

“Americans just don’t realize the viciousness of the militant Islamic fundamentalist.”

— Brigitte Gabriel

I was born in Waukegan a long, long time ago. As a matter of fact, our rabbi was an Indian.

— Jack Benny

It's not a matter of maintaining the status quo. We have to create a dynamic state, oriented towards expansion.

— David Ben-Gurion

You go to war when there is a security threat, and Saddam Hussein was seen as a threat to our interests and…

— Condoleezza Rice

I'm very proud of 'Will the Sun Ever Shine Again.' That was a song written very close to the 9/11 event.

— Alan Menken

Through the Internet, ISIS and other terrorist groups reach people they wouldn't ordinarily be able to reach.

— Dan Donovan

In the last analysis, terrorism is an idea generated by capitalism to justify better defense measures to safeguard capitalism.

— Rainer Werner Fassbinder

There is a crisis on the Right. It sees the Jewish and democratic state as a democracy for the Jews. This is…

— Reuven Rivlin

International economic and political sanctions on Iran, as crucial as they may be, are only an initial step, and must be dramatically…

— Ehud Olmert

At times one feels that what is being said in the West is that the fact that you are a Muslim predisposes…

— Lakhdar Brahimi

We can remove Saddam because that could start a chain reaction in the Arab world that would be very healthy.

— William Kristol

One of the terrorist who was shot dead last week led us today to the hide out of the other 3 suspects.

— Joseph Ole Lenku

Historically, terrorism falls in a category different from crimes that concern a criminal court judge.

— Jurgen Habermas

The funny thing is that I write and I act a lot about being Jewish, but I don't really think about it…

— Liev Schreiber

If the choice is one-state, Israel can either be Jewish or Democratic. It cannot be both.

— John F. Kerry

Auschwitz stands as a tragic reminder of the terrible potential man has for violence and inhumanity.

— Billy Graham

I see no anti-Semitic implications in denial of the existence of gas chambers, or even denial of the Holocaust.

— Noam Chomsky