Israel Quotes · Page 63

The people whose necks hurt when I write about the Middle East tend to live in Brooklyn or Boca Raton: the kind…

— Tony Judt

The Partition of Palestine is illegal. It will never be recognized .... Jerusalem was and will for ever be our capital. Eretz…

— Menachem Begin

God saw fit, for wise reasons to allow the people of Israel thus to make and possess slaves; but is this any…

— Samuel Hopkins

Israel is a start-up nation, and I think it can be done in other places. I will do it outside the government.…

— Shimon Peres

President-elect [Donald] Trump's ambassador to Israel is further to the right than almost anyone in Israel, further to the right than Bibi…

— David Brooks

Hamas thinks they can kill the will of people by intimidation. Most of those who are killed in the Gaza Strip for…

— Mosab Hassan Yousef

I would like to see real peace and a state of Israel living peacefully alongside a state of Palestine.

— Elie Wiesel

Islamic extremism is the prime enemy of civil society and social peace, both in Italy and in Israel.

— Matteo Salvini

I don't think a decent person has to choose between being pro-Israel and pro-Palestine. I think you have to be pro-Peace.

— Amos Oz

Another touchy point: the inability of successive Israeli governments to deal with the propaganda war. Israel has a brilliant instrument in the…

— Manfred Gerstenfeld

Many of Israel's Arabs, which see themselves as part of the Palestinian population, feel the pain of their brothers across the green…

— Reuven Rivlin

Austria is unconditionally committed to the security of Israel and its citizens.

— Sebastian Kurz

It seems unavoidable that history will always link the reestablishment of the State of Israel with the tragedy of the Holocaust.

— David Novak

If somebody here in America is against war crime and against stealing lands from Palestinians by Jews, he's already not allowed into…

— Udi Aloni

We do not want to create a situation like that which exists in South Africa, where the whites are the owners and…

— David Ben-Gurion

Maintaining control indefinitely over millions of Palestinians will inevitably lead to a demographic nightmare and cannot be sustained if Israel is to…

— Edgar Bronfman, Sr

A critically important issue when talking about America's terrorism problem is the matter of how U.S. support for Israel's brutal treatment of…

— John Mearsheimer

Israel's economic and cultural progress is due to three things: the pioneering spirit that inspires the best of our immigrant and Israeli…

— David Ben-Gurion

Zionism itself has paradoxically come to adopt some antisemitic logic in its hatred of Jews who do not fully identify with the…

— Slavoj Žižek

Israel is proud to be Jordan's partner and to stand at Jordan's side in promoting stability and quiet to our entire region.

— Reuven Rivlin

The Palestinians are a despotic, undemocratic grouping which promotes a religious war against Israel, a democracy, through terror.

— Melanie Phillips

Israel deserves special treatment from the United States, both for historical reasons and because there can be no regional peace without a…

— Stephen Kinzer

Obviously, things can get derailed, particularly if, which looks more and more likely, you get a blow-up between Israel and Iran. I…

— Steve Forbes

We do not rejoice in victories. We rejoice when a new kind of cotton is grown and when strawberries bloom in Israel.

— Golda Meir

Those in the international community that refuse to put red lines before Iran don't have a moral right to place a red…

— Benjamin Netanyahu

In fact, the Iraqi foreign minister admitted in March 2003 that Iraqi funds were sent to families of Palestinian suicide bombers who…

— Jim Gerlach

Israel is not the safest place in the world for Jews. Melbourne in Australia is better. Teaneck, New Jersey, is safer.

— Naftali Bennett

The truth about Hamas and Islamic Jihad is that they don't prevent Israel from existing or even flourishing, they prevent Palestine from…

— Michael Medved

We will consider every hand who will try to take our weapons, as an Israeli hand.

— Anonymous

There should be no doubt why Israel, our best friend and greatest ally in the Middle East, has determined that Iran poses…

— Lois Frankel

The United States is a strong and ardent ally of Israel. The fact of the matter is that friends can disagree. I…

— Valerie Jarrett

I think a lot it was the theology, that the road to Jerusalem runs through Baghdad, that somehow if we broke apart…

— Chris Matthews

Sooner or later, Israel will have to defeat Hamas. There is no way around it.

— Naftali Bennett

There's nothing more deep than recognizing Israel's right to exist. That's the most deep thought of all. ... I can't think of…

— George W. Bush

I believe that Israel is much stronger than many of its leaders.

— Ariel Sharon

If Israel is attacked, America has their back, not just diplomatically, not just culturally, but militarily.

— Mitt Romney

I go and film 50 people in Israel, 50 people in Russia, and 50 people in Romania, in Paris, because I really…

— Michal Rovner

Thanks to everyone in Israel for the wonderful welcome. It was a great show and we'll remember it forever.

— Mick Jagger

The Israeli-Palestinian conflict seems to have been overshadowed by the upheavals in the region. I have followed events there for almost 40…

— Heinz Fischer

The bonds of trust between the United States and Israel have been frayed, but even the hostility and disrespect the Obama administration…

— Adam Hasner