Israel Quotes · Page 173

Israel is the only country in the Middle East where Arabs can be elected to the parliament in a democratic election.

— Adam Michnik

Yes, Europe needs to be more welcoming, but that's only half of it. Muslims need to embrace the obligations of European residence…

— David Ignatius

We are familiar with terrorism. But indiscriminate, cross-border, religiously motivated terrorism is new.

— Gijs de Vries

Toward the Palestinians, Israel can only give. But when dealing with the entire Arab world, Israel can get a lot.

— Ehud Barak

“Ippolit Liutostanskii, a Polish-born, defrocked Catholic priest, who, after being tried for rape, turned to anti-Semitic polemics in order to earn money.”

— Helmut Walser Smith

One has to be willing to face the fact that what has transpired in Iraq is not exactly a very successful exercise.

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

If he is terrorising the terrorists, if he is terrorising America the terrorist [...] I am with him. Every Muslim should be…

— Zakir Naik

Among the most beloved of places are the mosques. Among the most hated of places are the marketplaces (too many lies).

— Rosie

Israel has good reason to be concerned about its intelligence making its way to Moscow: Russia is a major player in the…

— Ronen Bergman

The anger of the people in the Gaza Strip is mainly directed toward those who are responsible for the dire living conditions,…

— Khaled Mashal

The Arab world had a big problem of frankly venal elites. That is why these revolutions happen, because people didn't think the…

— Thomas Friedman

Most of the Jewish refugees, stripped of their considerable possessions, came to Israel. They were welcomed by the Jewish state. They were…

— Yitzhak Shamir

I don't think he should make foreign policy on the basis of peak,but I don't think it can be overstated that Israel…

— Mark Shields

The United States is looking at a way to launch peace with a disarmed Iraq. And so we are studying the declaration…

— Colin Powell

A great deal remains to be done in Afghanistan and the jury is out as to whether the international community has the…

— Khaled Hosseini

British intervention in Iraq and Afghanistan swelled the grievances home-grown fanatics fed off, while al Qaeda morphed and re-grouped in lawless sanctuaries…

— Dominic Raab

We fight terrorism. It threatens our sovereign, democratic, compassionate and decent way of life.

— Anonymous

Iranian young people are one of the most pro-American populations in the Middle East.

— Jared Cohen

I believe Jews are compassionate people because of what we've suffered. We must not put that suffering onto others.

— Miriam Margolyes

Islam, or any religion, will become totalitarian if it is made into an ideology, because that is the nature of ideologies.

— Abdolkarim Soroush

We expected, I expected to find actual usable, chemical or biological weapons after we entered Iraq.

— Tony Blair

That is the best case for Bush; that, among other things, he liberated Iraq. It is good enough for me.

— Boris Johnson

We can only move to a long-term resolution regarding terrorism and war by planting seeds of peace. We have to start with…

— Peter Yarrow

It is necessary that we eliminate the scourge of terrorism in all its forms, without any discrimination, and end the ecosystem of…

— Sushma Swaraj

Iran has pursued a deliberate policy of kidnapping and unjustly detaining innocent Americans since the very beginning of its revolutionary regime.

— Robert C. O'Brien

Hitler didn't snub me - it was our president who snubbed me. The president didn't even send me a telegram.

— Jesse Owens

If it is in the interest of the Palestinian people to have a hudna, we'll have a hudna. If it isn't, we…

— Ahmed Yassin

Israel's strategy cannot be to constantly confront the Palestinians with the history of the Holocaust, but instead to show them that Israel…

— Daniel Barenboim

I have seen for the first time in 100 years of conflict, the two peoples - the Israeli people and the Palestinian…

— Amos Oz

For all freedom-loving Americans, standing with Israel - for democracy and human rights - will always be an issue of right versus…

— Brian Mast

Isis want to destroy the knowledge that Islam is a beautiful, scientific and intelligent culture, and we are way ahead of them.

— Frankie Boyle

The notion that you do not negotiate with terrorists is not the history of humanity or of the world.

— Juan Manuel Santos

I think it is essential that America does not stumble into a stupid war with Iran.

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

Together with the rise of the internet, September 11 and its aftermath has changed most of our lives.

— Hedi Slimane

Dealing w/ Hamas is like dealing w/ a crazy woman who’s trying to kill u – u can only hold her wrists…

— Bill Maher

Geraldo Rivera says Osama bin Laden is hiding out in Pakistan ... which means the most hated man in Afghanistan is now…

— Conan O'Brien

The Syrian army is tired of corruption. It is tired of party nepotism. It is becoming very angry with those it blames…

— Robert Fisk

We may be delighted to see Israel putting the Arabs in their place, but we have repeatedly condemned their occupation of Arab…

— Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

When history looks back, I want people to know that the Nazis could not kill millions of people with impunity.

— Simon Wiesenthal

“The anticipatory obedience of Austrians in March 1938 taught the high Nazi leadership what was possible.”

— Timothy Snyder