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Israel Quotes by Daniel Barenboim

12 Israel quotes by Daniel Barenboim

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Daniel Barenboim, renowned for his musical and cultural commentary, offers a modest set of reflections on Israel that hint at his broader artistic concerns. Though concise, these excerpts serve as a solid entry point for anyone curious about his perspective.

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I don't believe that the entire world is constantly anti-Semitic.

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Anti-Semitism has no historical, political and certainly no philosophical origins. Anti-Semitism is a disease.

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Germany will never be a real, free thinking and free feeling friend of Israel, because it will always fall under this shadow.

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An Israeli who thinks that his government is doing everything right wouldn't join the Divan Orchestra in the first place.

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I have the greatest respect for the survivors of the Holocaust. We can't even imagine what these people went through.

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I'm not naive. I know perfectly well that there isn't a single Arab or Muslim in the world who would say: There…

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I'm sure that there are many Israelis who dream of waking up one day to find the Palestinians gone. And there are…

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There are probably many people in Israel who believe that Wagner, who died in 1883, lived in Berlin in 1942 and was…

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European anti-Semitism goes much further back than to the partition of Palestine and the establishment of Israel in 1948. It even goes…

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In the long term, Israel's security rests on only one pillar: the Palestinians' acceptance of the country. It isn't the atom bomb…

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Israel's strategy cannot be to constantly confront the Palestinians with the history of the Holocaust, but instead to show them that Israel…

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I hope that my new status will be an example of Israeli-Palestinian co-existence, I believe that the destinies of the Israeli people…

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The Barenboim Foundation has nothing to do with politics.

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You can't expect someone born into a family with no music... to understand when I'm conducting the Schoenberg Variations.

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I can't stand going out to one more dinner with some Mrs. So-and-So who might leave a million dollars to the Chicago Symphony Orchestra…

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The Germans are prisoners of their past.

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When you love somebody and they die young and you are young, too, it is very hard.

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Every great work of art has two faces, one towards its own time and one towards future, towards eternity.

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