Israel Quotes · Page 198

All the people who live in the West Bank are Israelis, they're not Palestinians. There is no 'Palestinian.' This is Israeli land.

— Rick Santorum

I really don't want to portray the Islamists as simply evil, the way it's often done in the west.

— Orhan Pamuk

It hurts to realize that human life which is priceless is gradually being reduced to nothing by terrorists.

— Terry Mark

“This is Islamic dress—but not to them. According to them, the colors in the embroidery are haram. Where”

— Geraldine Brooks

If you want to be a Jewish state and you want to remain a democracy, you have to have a two-state solution.

— John F. Kerry

I am often critical of Israel's policies when in the country, but then feel defensive of them when overseas.

— Zubin Mehta

The Sunni militants that make up ISIS are not the underlying problem in Syria and Iraq, but rather they are a symptom…

— Peter Bergen

The view that we hold in Iraq now is this - that democracy is associated with elections. I believe that elections are…

— Ahmed Chalabi

This will be my first visit [to Israel]. I've heard it's a special place, that Tel Aviv is exciting and that the…

— James Blunt

To Israel's faithful hosts in the past, as to its loyal sons and daughters of the present, the Siddur has been the…

— Joseph Hertz

So my judgment is that Syria will move; Syria will change, as it embraces a legitimate relationship with the United States and…

— John F. Kerry

“More than 100,000 soldiers will soon return home with the post-traumatic stress I know so well, not to mention the mysterious effects…

— Wafaa Bilal

There are some issues that are not in control of the government. Two of those issues are human rights and personal freedoms…

— Hassan Rouhani

With overwhelming military strength now deployed against him and with intense monitoring from space surveillance and the U.N. inspection team on the…

— Jimmy Carter

The Palestine I know is a place where Christians and Muslims are equal. My mother, a Muslim village girl, attended a Catholic…

— Maysoon Zayid

We've protected thousands of people in Libya; we have not seen a single U.S. casualty; there's no risks of additional escalation. This…

— Barack Obama

The Israeli prime minister, whoever that person is, should have an open invitation to come to America to speak to Congress and…

— Lee Zeldin

When Bush had an opportunity to capture or kill bin Laden, he took his focus off of him, outsourced the job to…

— Senator John Kerry

Nothing will ever have the impact that 9/11 had on Boeing and on the world. It just changed things overnight.

— Alan Mulally

Anti-Semitism, as an extreme form of racial chauvinism, is the most dangerous vestige of cannibalism.

— Joseph Stalin

I'm certainly not a practicing Jew. I would never claim, 'I'm Jewish.' That's not the first and foremost thing in my mind,…

— Scott Ian

We have to show the world that not all of us are like him. Otherwise, this will always be Hitler's Germany.

— Henning von Tresckow

What we learned on September 11 is that the unthinkable is now thinkable in the world

— John Ashcroft

As part of the coalition against ISIL, we are putting that terrorist network under tremendous pressure.

— Barack Obama

I'm glad the President finally found an economic development program. I'm just sad that it's only in Baghdad.

— John F. Kerry

The best way to fight terrorism is not through guns. It's through pens, books, teachers and schools.

— Malala Yousafzai

The dividing line for Yisrael Beiteinu is who supports terror and who fights terror.

— Avigdor Lieberman

America and its allies face many risks and problems in Iraq, but it is all too easy to snatch defeat from the…

— Anonymous

Israel gives the West Bank water twice a week! One way of promoting good would be not to ration water.

— Zubin Mehta

I'm rather secular. I'm basically Jewish. But I think I'm Jewish not because of the Jewish religion at all.

— Mel Brooks

In Desert Storm, we had too many troops; in Afghanistan probably not enough for the major commitment we have made.

— Alexander Haig

Saddam Hussein is a homicidal dictator who is addicted to weapons of mass destruction.

— George W. Bush

The U.S., often in secret, carries out counterterrorism missions all the time, with drones in places like Yemen and Somalia.

— Richard Engel

That whole concept of team and teamwork and team first - that's how Israel, in my opinion, has survived in the Middle…

— Robert Kraft

Olmert made a proposal on the governing of Jerusalem that I do not believe his cabinet or the Knesset would have accepted.

— Elliott Abrams

And as a result of the United States military, Taliban no longer is in existence.

— George W. Bush

Pakistan is also a victim of terrorism. We obviously condemn all forms of terrorism; we should cooperate in facing the menace and…

— Shehbaz Sharif

The appropriate response to terrorist crimes is police work, which has been successful worldwide.

— Noam Chomsky

I think within a year or so, perhaps, if 9/11 had not happened, in Afghanistan would have been a very broad-based general…

— Ahmed Rashid

I'm prepared to continue doing what we need to do to stop Iran from getting a nuclear weapon.

— Steve Scalise