Israel Quotes by Daniel Gordis

“They often unfavorably compared Holocaust victims to the new, powerful Jews of the Yishuv who dislodged the British and fought off the Arabs with…

— Daniel Gordis

Having people be afraid of you comes with responsibility.

— Daniel Gordis

Never does the Tanakh suggest that our being a people means that only we have a right to an ancestral homeland and that other…

— Daniel Gordis

“Nasser was dead. Israel’s military superiority had effectively neutralized any Syrian threat. Pan-Arabism was a thing of the past. Yet once again, Israel found…

— Daniel Gordis

“He had an impeccable sense of timing, knew when to wait and when to move, and declared the state even before it was ready,…

— Daniel Gordis

“Yet if mere Israeli survival was going to evoke Arab anger, Dayan then warned both his listeners and his entire newborn nation, Israelis had…

— Daniel Gordis

“THE BEGIN YEARS HAD not been easy ones for Israel, but they had been important. Israel had made peace with its once most potent…

— Daniel Gordis

“Micah Goodman, a popular teacher on the Israeli scene and one of its young public intellectuals, wrote his first three books on Maimonides’s Guide…

— Daniel Gordis

Ari Shavit's My Promised Land is without question one of the most important books about Israel and Zionism that I have ever read...This is…

— Daniel Gordis

“Herzl promised the readers of Altneuland not only a Jewish safe haven, but a Jewish state that would be a source of progress and…

— Daniel Gordis

“The story of the return of the Jewish people to its ancestral homeland became, in short, one of the great dramas in the history…

— Daniel Gordis

The Tanakh says John Lennon is wrong.

— Daniel Gordis

“Dayan and Eshkol were against taking the Golan Heights from the Syrians. Syrian troops, they both insisted, had thus far made no effort to…

— Daniel Gordis