While the Arab guerrillas were moving in, the Arab…

Which Israel should we recognize? The Israel of 1917; the Israel of 1936; the Israel of 1948; the Israel of 1956; or the Israel…

— Ismail Haniyeh

Before the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948, Jewish leaders were intent on discovering and laying claim to their heritage in the…

— Ronen Bergman

The United States was the first country to recognize Israel in 1948, minutes after its declaration of independence, and the deep bonds of friendship…

— Barack Obama

Unfortunately, in war, there are casualties, including among the civilian population.

— John O. Brennan

I am extremely proud of our remarkable men and women who serve in our military, but the reality is that this is a shrinking…

— Don Young

“No census was taken of the number of gay men and lesbians who entered the military. But if Alfred Kinsey's wartime surveys were accurate…

— Allan Bérubé

“The bottom line is...if you were in the civilian population, you'd be a serial killer. Working for the government means you get to wave…

— J.R. Ward

“if a highly populated area was without electricity for a period of months or even weeks, there is no master plan for the civilian…

— Ted Koppel

If the next time our governments propose to make war on a helpless civilian population we were to uncover our grief and guilt instead…

— Germaine Greer

There is no precedent of a civilian population, displaced by a war that their leadership started and lost, claiming a right to return to…

— Caroline Glick

“At daybreak, the gloom had lifted. The mood was more confident. There were those who said: “Who knows, they may be sending us away…

— Anonymous

A total of 1,580 people, the civilian population, suffered as a result of the bloody wave of terrorist acts that swept over Moscow and…

— Boris Yeltsin

You need the will to disarm the civilian population. If we can do it in Somalia, we can do it here.

— Mary McGrory

“The Zionists accepted the partition plan. The AHC and the Arab states rejected any proposal to share the land and vowed to drown the…

— Sol Stern

“...the Palestinian Arabs' obsession with the Jews and rejection of all political compromise was inspired by Islamic teachings as well as by European fascism.”

— Sol Stern