--- title: "15 Israel Quotes By Charles Krauthammer" description: "15 Israel quotes by Charles Krauthammer. Plus more from Charles Krauthammer and more Israel sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/695/charles-krauthammer-1232_acquire_i-happen-to-believe-that-the-preemption_1540106.png" --- > [I happen to believe that the preemption school is correct, that the risks of allowing Saddam Hussein to acquire his weapons will…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-krauthammer/i-happen-to-believe-that-the-preemption-school-is-correct-that-the/) [Charles Krauthammer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-krauthammer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/695/charles-krauthammer-1232_acquire_i-happen-to-believe-that-the-preemption_1540106.png) > [The Iraquis can see it. The Kurds can feel it. The jihadists are counting on it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-krauthammer/the-iraquis-can-see-it-the-kurds-can-feel-it-the-jihadists-are/) [Charles Krauthammer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-krauthammer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/20a/charles-krauthammer-1232_counting_the-iraquis-can-see-it-the-kurds-can-fee_2589701.png) > [“Krauthammer’s Law: Everyone is Jewish until proven otherwise. I’ve had a fairly good run with this one.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-krauthammer/krauthammer-s-law-everyone-is-jewish-until-proven-otherwise-i-ve-had/) [Charles Krauthammer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-krauthammer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/29b/charles-krauthammer-1232_israel_krauthammer-s-law-everyone-is-jewish-unt_2252756.png) > [Doves oppose war on the grounds that the risks exceed the gains. War with Iraq could be very costly, possibly degenerating into…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-krauthammer/doves-oppose-war-on-the-grounds-that-the-risks-exceed-the-gains-war/) [Charles Krauthammer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-krauthammer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/654/charles-krauthammer-1232_exceed_doves-oppose-war-on-the-grounds-that-the_3137410.png) > [ Some geopolitical conflicts are morally complicated. The Israel-Gaza war is not. It possesses a moral clarity not only rare but excruciating. \[...\]… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-krauthammer/some-geopolitical-conflicts-are-morally-complicated-the-israel-gaza/) [Charles Krauthammer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-krauthammer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fc8/charles-krauthammer-1232_clarity_some-geopolitical-conflicts-are-morally_1263872.png) > [“It's the jihadists who decided to make the world a battlefield and to wage war in perpetuity. Until they abandon the field,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-krauthammer/it-s-the-jihadists-who-decided-to-make-the-world-a-battlefield-and-to/) [Charles Krauthammer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-krauthammer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/62c/charles-krauthammer-1232_israel_it-s-the-jihadists-who-decided-to-make-t_3131529.png) > [This week, Iranian-backed Houthi rebels seized control of the Yemeni government, heretofore pro-American. In September, they overran Sanaa, the capital. On Tuesday,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-krauthammer/this-week-iranian-backed-houthi-rebels-seized-control-of-the-yemeni/) [Charles Krauthammer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-krauthammer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dc0/charles-krauthammer-1232_government_this-week-iranian-backed-houthi-rebels-s_2091659.jpg) > [The Houthi have local religious grievances, being Shiites in a majority Sunni land. But they are also agents of Shiite Iran, which…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-krauthammer/the-houthi-have-local-religious-grievances-being-shiites-in-a/) [Charles Krauthammer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-krauthammer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1b7/charles-krauthammer-1232_advise_the-houthi-have-local-religious-grievanc_2977869.jpg) > [A drone is a high-tech version of an old army and a musket. It ought to be used in Somalia to hunt…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-krauthammer/a-drone-is-a-high-tech-version-of-an-old-army-and-a-musket-it-ought/) [Charles Krauthammer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-krauthammer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/270/charles-krauthammer-1232_america_a-drone-is-a-high-tech-version-of-an-old_3084521.jpg) > [Obama has committed the U.S. to war on the Islamic State. To then allow within a month an allied enclave to be…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-krauthammer/obama-has-committed-the-u-s-to-war-on-the-islamic-state-to-then-allow/) [Charles Krauthammer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-krauthammer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ea4/charles-krauthammer-1232_blow_obama-has-committed-the-u-s-to-war-on-th_700951.png) > [Hawks favor war on the grounds that Saddam Hussein is reckless, tyrannical and instinctively aggressive, and that if he comes into possession…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-krauthammer/hawks-favor-war-on-the-grounds-that-saddam-hussein-is-reckless/) [Charles Krauthammer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-krauthammer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/741/charles-krauthammer-1232_aggressive_hawks-favor-war-on-the-grounds-that-sadd_2091746.png) > [Why should we care about the coup? First, because we depend on Yemen's government to support our drone war against another local…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-krauthammer/why-should-we-care-about-the-coup-first-because-we-depend-on-yemen-s/) [Charles Krauthammer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-krauthammer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b59/charles-krauthammer-1232_al-qaeda_why-should-we-care-about-the-coup-first_699401.png) > [The war is not going well and it is time to say why. It has been fought with half-measures. It has been…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-krauthammer/the-war-is-not-going-well-and-it-is-time-to-say-why-it-has-been/) [Charles Krauthammer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-krauthammer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b6c/charles-krauthammer-1232_48-hours_the-war-is-not-going-well-and-it-is-time_115264.jpg) > [Israel is the very embodiment of Jewish continuity: It is the only nation on earth that inhabits the same land, bears the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-krauthammer/israel-is-the-very-embodiment-of-jewish-continuity-it-is-the-only/) [Charles Krauthammer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-krauthammer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d2e/charles-krauthammer-1232_bars_israel-is-the-very-embodiment-of-jewish_830793.png) > [“The process is taking place before our eyes and is already far advanced.” Under present trends, “the number of Jews in Europe…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-krauthammer/the-process-is-taking-place-before-our-eyes-and-is-already-far/) [Charles Krauthammer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-krauthammer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/69a/charles-krauthammer-1232_eastern-europe_the-process-is-taking-place-before-our-e_498742.png) ## Other authors on Israel - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b005/author-barack-obama-16275.jpg) Barack Obama 283 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/israel/barack-obama/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b010/author-george-w-bush-38036.jpg) George W. Bush 241 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/israel/george-w-bush/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b018/author-noam-chomsky-71799.jpg) Noam Chomsky 161 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/israel/noam-chomsky/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b008/author-donald-trump-30060.jpg) Donald Trump 136 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/israel/donald-trump/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b005/author-benjamin-netanyahu-17175.jpg) Benjamin Netanyahu 120 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/israel/benjamin-netanyahu/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b005/author-bashar-alassad-16604.jpg) Bashar al-Assad 119 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/israel/bashar-al-assad/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b011/author-hillary-clinton-42043.jpg) Hillary Clinton 111 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/israel/hillary-clinton/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b004/author-ariel-sharon-14601.jpg) Ariel Sharon 107 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/israel/ariel-sharon/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b019/author-peter-bergen-74707.jpg) Peter Bergen 99 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/israel/peter-bergen/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b023/author-tariq-ramadan-88946.jpg) Tariq Ramadan 95 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/israel/tariq-ramadan/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b009/author-elliott-abrams-32793.jpg) Elliott Abrams 88 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/israel/elliott-abrams/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b009/author-ehud-olmert-32097.jpg) Ehud Olmert 84 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/israel/ehud-olmert/) ## More by Charles Krauthammer > [Obama and the Democrats were so critical of what Bush did, the interrogations, the secret prisons, Guantanamo and all of that, and even the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-krauthammer/obama-and-the-democrats-were-so-critical-of-what-bush-did-the/) [Charles Krauthammer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-krauthammer/) > [“America is the most welcoming, religiously tolerant, philo-semitic country in the world. No nation since Cyrus the Great’s Persia has done more for the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-krauthammer/america-is-the-most-welcoming-religiously-tolerant-philo-semitic/) [Charles Krauthammer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-krauthammer/) > [I believe in what I believe, and I think after all these years I've heard a lot of arguments, and I'm convinced by the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-krauthammer/i-believe-in-what-i-believe-and-i-think-after-all-these-years-i-ve/) [Charles Krauthammer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-krauthammer/) > [With our financial house on fire, Obama makes clear both in in his speech and his budget that the essence of his presidency will…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-krauthammer/with-our-financial-house-on-fire-obama-makes-clear-both-in-in-his/) [Charles Krauthammer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-krauthammer/) > [The conservative idea is not that government has no role. You might have argued that in the thirties when conservatives opposed the New Deal.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-krauthammer/the-conservative-idea-is-not-that-government-has-no-role-you-might/) [Charles Krauthammer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-krauthammer/) > [The war is not going well and it is time to say why. It has been fought with half-measures. It has been fought with…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-krauthammer/the-war-is-not-going-well-and-it-is-time-to-say-why-it-has-been/) [Charles Krauthammer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-krauthammer/) > [“International stability is never a given. It is never the norm. When achieved, it is the product of self-conscious action by the great powers,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-krauthammer/international-stability-is-never-a-given-it-is-never-the-norm-when/) [Charles Krauthammer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-krauthammer/) > [Look, I don't mind if the President sends a budget which he knows is not going to achieve anything. But when he prefaces his…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-krauthammer/look-i-don-t-mind-if-the-president-sends-a-budget-which-he-knows-is/) [Charles Krauthammer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-krauthammer/) > [“Politics is the moat, the walls, beyond which lie the barbarians. Fail to keep them at bay, and everything burns.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-krauthammer/politics-is-the-moat-the-walls-beyond-which-lie-the-barbarians-fail/) [Charles Krauthammer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-krauthammer/) > [Don't touch my junk, you airport security goon--my package belongs to no one but me, and do you really think I'm a Nigerian nut…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-krauthammer/don-t-touch-my-junk-you-airport-security-goon-my-package-belongs-to/) [Charles Krauthammer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-krauthammer/) > [“The Russian Revolution and its imitators (Chinese, Cuban, Vietnamese, Cambodian) tried to atomize society so thoroughly--to war against the mediating structures that stand between…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-krauthammer/the-russian-revolution-and-its-imitators-chinese-cuban-vietnamese/) [Charles Krauthammer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-krauthammer/) > [Where religion is trivialized, one is unlikely to find persecution.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-krauthammer/where-religion-is-trivialized-one-is-unlikely-to-find-persecution/) [Charles Krauthammer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-krauthammer/) > [We must now brace ourselves for disquisitions on peer pressure, adolescent anomie, and rage.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-krauthammer/we-must-now-brace-ourselves-for-disquisitions-on-peer-pressure/) [Charles Krauthammer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-krauthammer/) > [Post-Watergate morality, by which anything left private is taken as presumptive evidence of wrongdoing.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-krauthammer/post-watergate-morality-by-which-anything-left-private-is-taken-as/) [Charles Krauthammer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-krauthammer/) > [“The largest threat to freedom, democracy, the market economy and prosperity,' warns Czech president Vaclav Klaus, 'is no longer socialism. It is, instead, the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-krauthammer/the-largest-threat-to-freedom-democracy-the-market-economy-and/) [Charles Krauthammer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-krauthammer/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/israel/charles-krauthammer/#itemlist", "name": "15 Israel Quotes By Charles Krauthammer", "numberOfItems": 15, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "I happen to believe that the preemption school is correct, that the risks of allowing Saddam Hussein to acquire his weapons will only grow with time.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Charles Krauthammer" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-krauthammer/i-happen-to-believe-that-the-preemption-school-is-correct-that-the/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/695/charles-krauthammer-1232_acquire_i-happen-to-believe-that-the-preemption_1540106.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/695/charles-krauthammer-1232_acquire_i-happen-to-believe-that-the-preemption_1540106.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/695/charles-krauthammer-1232_acquire_i-happen-to-believe-that-the-preemption_1540106.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“I happen to believe that the preemption school is correct, that the risks of allowing Saddam Hussein to…” — Charles Krauthammer", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "The Iraquis can see it. 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The story elsewhere is even more dispiriting. The rest of what was once the diaspora is now either a museum or a graveyard. Eastern Europe has been effectively emptied of its Jews. In 1939, Poland had 3.2 million Jews. Today it is home to 3,500. The story is much the same in the other capitals of Eastern Europe. The Islamic world, cradle to the great Sephardic Jewish tradition and home to one-third of world Jewry three centuries ago, is now practically Judenrein. Not a single country in the Islamic world is home to more than 20,000 Jews. After Turkey with 19,000 and Iran with 14,000, the country with the largest Jewish community in the entire Islamic world is Morocco with 6,100. There are more Jews in Omaha, Nebraska. These communities do not figure in projections. There is nothing to project. They are fit subjects not for counting but for remembering. Their very sound has vanished. 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