Israel Quotes · Page 192

Some think of Islam as an expedient jobs program that moves the female half of the population out of the way.

— William Langewiesche

Given time, given the number of prisoners now that we're interrogating, I'm confident that we're going to find weapons of mass destruction.

— Richard Myers

I think we can all agree [Bashar] Assad is a bad and evil actor, but I'm not so sure that we want…

— Rand Paul

If Iran wants to be treated like a normal country, let it act like a normal country.

— Benjamin Netanyahu

We will never walk away from Israel ... Many of us are worried about heaven. Heaven is your reward. You are here…

— William G. Boykin

U.S.-Israel relations are often depicted as an extended honeymoon, but that's a false image.

— Elliott Abrams

We have an authorization to use military force against terrorists. We passed it after 9/11.

— Hillary Clinton

If there is willingness on the Palestinian side to reach an agreement, it is possible. We are conducting the negotiations with goodwill.

— Benjamin Netanyahu

After [Adolf] Hitler took power, Hoffmann moved to a grander place on the Ebersbergerstrasse. I never saw the first house, I was…

— Gretl Braun

The mistake of the West was to put the Sauds on the throne of Saudi Arabia and give them control of the…

— Salman Rushdie

Every friend of Syria is looking for peaceful solution, and we are convinced about that. We have this advice, and without this…

— Bashar al-Assad

But we wish to give the Jews a Homeland. Not by dragging them ruthlessly out of their sustaining soil, but rather by…

— Theodor Herzl

We know that al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula has some very dangerous, very important leaders who are tied directly to the…

— Richard Engel

They are going to leave [Gaza], not because this is a gift from Israel. This is because they failed to confront our…

— Zuheir Mohsen

I am one who believes that we are, in fact, engaged in a worldwide war against terrorism. We must have the serenity…

— Robert Foster Bennett

I don't go, 'It is now time to change Americans' perception of Muslims. It's going to be a long day.' I think…

— Kumail Nanjiani

People are drawn to radical Islam because they feel their traditional ways of life threatened by the influx of KFC and Hollywood…

— Franklin Foer

I am a non Zionist because the Jew, in seeking a homeland of his own, seems to me to be giving up…

— Arthur Hays Sulzberger

But as a Bahai I don't reject Mohammed. Nor any other faith, because by rejecting one, you reject them all.

— Omid Djalili

As much as I disagreed with every second of 'Fahrenheit 9/11,' the fact that it is out made me jump for joy.

— Penn Jillette

There is no way a non-Jew could say what I did in 'The Holocaust Industry' without being labelled a Holocaust denier. I…

— Norman Finkelstein

Each time there is a conflict between Israel and Gaza, accusations fly over who started it, each side blaming the other.

— Richard Engel

“When the Holocaust is blamed on the modern state, the weakening of state authority appears salutary.”

— Timothy Snyder

My idea for peace in the Middle East is to go back to the 1966 line, but to build even more houses…

— Frank Carson

I mean there is an assumption made that Islam is about submission, and I think that the submission that we have is…

— Haleh Afshar, Baroness Afshar

Soldiers of Israel, we have no aims of conquest. Our purpose is to bring to naught the attempts of the Arab armies…

— Moshe Dayan

It has been estimated that one third of our Western civilization bears the mark of its Jewish ancestry.

— Huston Smith

It's interesting when you're part of a group - the Jews, to be exact - that the world has had such problems…

— Albert Brooks

Hospitality is one of the things the Afghan population is famous for, but nobody says that anymore. Now they're terrorists - and…

— Lisa Ling

The real terrorist threats are George W. Bush and his band of brown-shirted thugs.

— Sandra Bernhard

"Terrorism" is a metaphor, it's an abstract noun. It's like having a war on dandruff. It's something from advertising, it's meaningless.

— Gore Vidal

The attitude of 'every nation unto itself' is a destructive one for the future of Israel.

— Tzipi Livni

“forty-nine thousand Jews in Italy at the time of the Nazi invasion, some forty-one thousand evaded arrest or survived the concentration camps.”

— Mark T. Sullivan

“The neoconservatives have tried, in a form of political jujitsu, to brand any criticism of Israel (not to mention themselves) as anti-Israel.”

— Jacob Heilbrunn

Iraq made commitments after the Gulf War to completely dismantle all weapons of mass destruction, and unfortunately, Iraq has not lived up…

— Barbara Boxer

Egypt has a presidential system. The president runs the state. Who the president is matters profoundly.

— Richard Engel

Iranians are very proud and don't want to become a pariah state like North Korea.

— Edward Luck

I can tell the negotiators, please, when you consider all the options, do not be constrained by the risk of an oil…

— Claude Mandil

“Tawfik Al-Hakeem, one of Egypt's most renowned twentieth-century writers, described Nasser as a ‘confused Sultan”

— Tarek Osman

'Hostel' is that's how I feel about what's going on in Iraq. There's people that just want money and people are being…

— Eli Roth