Israel Quotes · Page 131

Saudi Arabia isn't just a conservative country with different values we shouldn't judge. It is a modern Gilead.

— Mona Eltahawy

The public still repeats, time after time, the silly story that at Wannsee the extermination of the Jews was arrived at.

— Yehuda Bauer

In the Middle East there are two kinds of regimes - those that could be worse, and those that couldn't be worse.

— Bret Stephens

Rest you well, beloved Jesus, Caesar’s Lord and Israel’s King, In the brooding of the Spirit, in the darkness of the spring

— N. T. Wright

Anti-Semitism is a rotten thing. It's an ignorant, stupid, horrible thing. As is anti-Muslim feeling. They have to be together.

— Miriam Margolyes

Christ at the Checkpoint is primarily a public relations scheme to dissuade American evangelicals from pro-Israel views.

— Mark Tooley

But for us, in Syria, we have principles. We'll do anything to prevent the region from another crazy war. It's not only…

— Bashar al-Assad

I do explicitly see Jewish people as a people - not either a religion or an ethnicity but a people.

— Ken Livingstone

I cannot penetrate the soul of Arafat. I cannot know in advance whether, behind all the masks, he's the kind of leader…

— Ehud Barak

Despite fearful rhetoric to the contrary, terrorism is not a transcendent threat. A terrorist attack cannot possibly destroy our country's way of…

— Bruce Schneier

The more Israel sinks into the West Bank, the more it is delegitimized and isolated, the more the world focuses on Israel's…

— Thomas Friedman

There was a free election in Palestine, but it came out the wrong way. So instantly, the United States and Israel with…

— Noam Chomsky

If you tell the reader it's funny, then the audience is like an audience at a stand-up comedy club and they expect…

— Dave Barry

We build buildings based on the false assumption that women go to mosques half as much as they actually do. In fact,…

— Dalia Mogahed

We have been through, over these years, some difficult times. During the period that I have served as President of the United…

— Richard M. Nixon

The big risk to British lives in 2013 is in Afghanistan. Our troops, diplomats and aid workers have made a big contribution…

— David Miliband

The Obama administration has been unable to call Jerusalem the capital of Israel because the Palestinians want to claim it as their…

— Richard Grenell

It's very hard to talk about Palestine to Jewish people - they see me as a betrayer.

— Miriam Margolyes

It was known in the mid 90s already that Saddam Hussein was a dangerous tyrant that he had already launched aggressions against…

— Anonymous

As someone who was born in Israel, you're put in a position of defending Israel because you know how much is at…

— Natalie Portman

Islam and Islamic values now have a level of immunity from comment and criticism in the Western world that Christianity has lost…

— Bernard Lewis

You should expect everything. Not necessarily through the government, the governments are not the only player in [Middle East] region.

— Bashar al-Assad

Our own State Department polls say that 80 percent of Iraqis view the United States as an unpopular occupier.

— Marty Meehan

I just want to say something. 655,000 Iraqi civilians are dead. Who are the terrorists?

— Rosie O'Donnell

While many Islamic countries pay lip service to the idea of freedom of religion, they don't put up with conversion from Islam…

— Ibn Warraq

Kazemi has to understand that nobody is going to tell him he has to go back to Iran if he misses a…

— Bill Walton

Jerusalem is a festival and a lamentation. Its song is a sigh across the ages, a delicate, robust, mournful psalm at the…

— David K. Shipler

Last month, the Iraqi people went to the polls, voting in their first free election in more than 50 years.

— John M. McHugh

“The sahaba used to do the sunnah because it was sunnah, we leave the sunnah because it is sunnah.”

— Marwa Saad

Israel is a democratic state with an independent judiciary, a free press and a diverse population of many cultures, religions and creeds.

— Jonathan Sacks

A society that produces suicide murderers in quantity is essentially committing its own suicide.

— Haim Harari

I think the forms of terrorism are becoming very diverse, amongst them cyber-terrorism, for example.

— Yoshihiko Noda

Iran is actively pursuing the development of weapons of mass destruction and ballistic missiles.

— Howard Berman

I think Islam is in a sense, in crisis. It needs to question and re-question itself.

— Azar Nafisi

Nuclear-armed Iran ought to be a major concern. And they're moving forward. We have got to roll that back.

— Steve Scalise

Things use to be real nice, til they got out of hand. Since they moved in, they call themselves the Taliban.

— Toby Keith

Islam is according to me, my party, not so much a religion as well as it is a totalitarian ideology.

— Geert Wilders

Islam is not part of the problem in combating violent extremism - it is an important part of promoting peace.

— Barack Obama

I must have been one of the least surprised people on earth on September 11. I felt very braced for that. I…

— Christopher Hitchens

I felt that we had become a society ruled by sectors, by interest groups: Whoever's connected to the Israeli government gets more.

— Yair Lapid