Israel Quotes by Jack Schwartz

12 Israel quotes by Jack Schwartz

Jack Schwartz’s reflections on Israel are distilled into a short series of twelve quotes. Though limited in number, they give a vivid sense of his viewpoint and the themes he finds most compelling.

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The disappearance of the Jewish state will not mean the disappearance of anti-Semitism.

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It would be hard to ignore the absence of democracy in any Arab nation.

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Genocide is an attempt to exterminate a people, not to alter their behavior.

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Israel is the only democracy in the Middle East.

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When Arab apologists wring their hands over an Israeli military incursion, they never mention what the Israelis are reacting to, or else…

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Jews are not part of a European ruling class imposed on helpless natives, but are caught up in a tragedy in which…

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Without a Jewish state, the iron truth of history is that the Jewish people sooner or later become even more vulnerable to…

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Israeli Arabs have more political rights than any other Arabs in the Middle East, including their compatriots in the Palestinian Authority.

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The Arab representatives and their followers were not interested in the persecuted millions throughout the world; they were fixed on a political…

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Under Hitler it was the entrepreneurial and professional classes who were the first victims of Nazi boycotts and exclusion. Today it is…

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Israel is now sustaining a war for its own existence. A nation defending its citizens against terrorist bombings and a military and…

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The situation in the West Bank and Gaza involves a military occupation amid urban guerrilla warfare, analogous to the British security measures…

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In the Middle Ages and beyond, the target was the Court Jew who had the ear of the ruler; during the Inquisition it was…

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Israel is the only democracy in the Middle East.

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Avoid context and specifics; generalize and keep repeating the generalization.

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The evidence of a Jewish civilization going back more than two millennia is overwhelmingly borne out in the archaeology of the region. The heritage…

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A fair observer only has to ask: If there is violence, who profits?

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Jewish and Palestinian nationalism are virtually contemporaneous, and grew out of the disruptions that created new national movements from the ruins of the old…

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More recently, as faith gave way to materialism, anti-Semitism assumed a secular mode, harnessing itself to the dominant ideologies of both the Left and…

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The metaphor of Exodus is one that has dogged the Jews from the outset. Their very success attracts resentment.

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