Israel Quotes by Christopher Hitchens

Will an Iraq war make our Al Qaeda problem worse? Not likely.

— Christopher Hitchens

Terrorism is the tactic of demanding the impossible, and demanding it at gunpoint.

— Christopher Hitchens

If you think that the intifada in France is about housing, go and try covering the story wearing a yarmulka .

— Christopher Hitchens

The death toll is not nearly high enough... too many [jihadists] have escaped.

— Christopher Hitchens

I don't think the war in Afghanistan was ruthlessly enough waged.

— Christopher Hitchens

[Even if the U.S. doesn't attack] Saddam Hussein is not going to survive. His regime is on the verge of implosion.

— Christopher Hitchens

Indeed, it's futile to try and use Holy Scripture to support any political position. I deeply distrust anyone who does. Just look…

— Christopher Hitchens

If you look at any Muslim society and you make a scale of how developed they are, and how successful the economy…

— Christopher Hitchens

“One of my first reservations about Zionism was and is that, semiconsciously at least, it grants the anti-Semite's first premise about the…

— Christopher Hitchens

There are two clocks ticking in Iran. One is the democracy movement clock which is ticking now faster than it was but…

— Christopher Hitchens

It must be obvious to anyone who can think at all that the charges against the Hussein regime are, as concerns arsenals…

— Christopher Hitchens

I, for one, will not have [the Vietcong] insulted by any comparison to the forces of Zarqawi, the Fedayeen Saddam, and the…

— Christopher Hitchens

'Bombing Afghanistan back into the Stone Age' was quite a favourite headline for some wobbly liberals. The slogan does all the work.…

— Christopher Hitchens

Its a matter of principle. If Jews born in Brooklyn have a right to a state in Palestine then Palestinians born in…

— Christopher Hitchens

“The 'pre-emption' versus 'prevention' debate may be a distinction without much difference. The important thing is to have it understood that the…

— Christopher Hitchens

It was not for the sake of oil that the risky decision to cease this corrupt coexistence was made. But at least…

— Christopher Hitchens

“Half the published articles on Gaza contain a standard reference to its resemblance to a vast open-air prison (and when I last…

— Christopher Hitchens

In the early days of the December that my father was to die, my younger brother brought me the news that I…

— Christopher Hitchens

Everyone in Iran is perceived to be a child with a paternal authority vested in the Guardian Council and the Sufi elders.…

— Christopher Hitchens

Islam in its origins is just as shady and approximate as those from which it took its borrowings. It makes immense claims…

— Christopher Hitchens

No possible future government in Kabul can be worse than the Taliban, and no thinkable future government would allow the level of…

— Christopher Hitchens

“If the Bahreini royal family can have an embassy, a state, and a seat at the UN, why should the twenty-five million…

— Christopher Hitchens

“If my mother's intention in whole or in part was to ensure that I never had to suffer any indignity or embarrassment…

— Christopher Hitchens

“The little boats cannot make much difference to the welfare of Gaza either way, since the materials being shipped are in such…

— Christopher Hitchens

“The matter on which I judge people is their willingness, or ability, to handle contradiction. Thus Paine was better than Burke when…

— Christopher Hitchens

The Iraqi Baath Socialist Party was modelled in large part on admiration for European National Socialist and Fascist movements, hoped to emulate…

— Christopher Hitchens

“Actually—and this was where I began to feel seriously uncomfortable—some such divine claim underlay not just 'the occupation' but the whole idea…

— Christopher Hitchens

“The important but delayed realization will have to come: Israeli Jews are a part of the diaspora, not a group that has…

— Christopher Hitchens

“I am not one of those who believes—as Obama is said to believe—that a solution to the Palestinian statehood question would bring…

— Christopher Hitchens

“Well, I was able to write in further reply to Dennis Prager, now you have your answer. The nineteen suicide murderers of…

— Christopher Hitchens

“You might think that the Left could have a regime-change perspective of its own, based on solidarity with its comrades abroad. After…

— Christopher Hitchens

“Suppose that a man leaps out of a burning building—as my dear friend and colleague Jeff Goldberg sat and said to my…

— Christopher Hitchens

“On my desk is an appeal from the National Museum of American Jewish History in Philadelphia. It asks me to become a…

— Christopher Hitchens

“Should I, too, prefer the title of 'non-Jewish Jew'? For some time, I would have identified myself strongly with the attitude expressed…

— Christopher Hitchens

“I was taken to a villa to meet Sabri al-Banna, known as 'Abu Nidal' ('father of struggle'), who was at the time…

— Christopher Hitchens

“Rolf Ekeus came round to my apartment one day and showed me the name of the Iraqi diplomat who had visited the…

— Christopher Hitchens

“Attempts to locate oneself within history are as natural, and as absurd, as attempts to locate oneself within astronomy. On the day…

— Christopher Hitchens

“So I close this long reflection on what I hope is a not-too-quaveringly semi-Semitic note. When I am at home, I will…

— Christopher Hitchens

When I am at home, I never go near the synagogue unless, say, there is a bar or bat mitzvah involving the…

— Christopher Hitchens

You notice how liberals keep saying, 'If only Islam would have a Reformation' - it can't have one. It says it can't.…

— Christopher Hitchens