Israel Quotes · Page 207

Jews have never, ever, ever wished to be separate, unless they were forced to be.

— Simon Schama

The whole melodrama of the Middle East would be improved if amnesia were as common here as it is in melodramatic plots.

— P. J. O'Rourke

The intelligence community was absolutely uniform and uniformly wrong about the existence of weapons of mass destruction (in Iraq).

— Laurence Silberman

Remembering is a necessary rebuke to those who say the Holocaust never happened or has been exaggerated.

— Kofi Annan

Hitler was without a doubt exceptional in his criminal deeds. Yet in many respects, he was not at all out of the…

— Volker Ullrich

Israel is prepared for a compromise. The majority of Israelis understand this compromise will be serious, will be meaningful, and will be…

— Ehud Olmert

We need steady hands, not a president who says he's neutral on Monday, pro-Israel on Tuesday, and who knows what on Wednesday,…

— Hillary Clinton

I hope we do not see another Iraq-type operation for a long time - without UN approval and much broader support from…

— Kofi Annan

Well, first, the situation in Afghanistan is much better than it was. But there is no comparison between Afghanistan and Iraq. Iraq…

— Peter T. King

I'm quite sure it happened in Berlin too when Eva [Braun] stayed there later on. I wouldn't know about that because I…

— Gretl Braun

I am pleased to inform you of the decision of the Government of the Republic of Iraq to allow the return of…

— Naji Sabri

The United States was the one nullifying any attempt in the Security Council of the United Nations to sanction those fascist governments,…

— Alejandro Castro Espin

I did notice growing up that there are so many things, obstacles and things, that people think you can't do because you're…

— Halima Aden

Unless the Arab states give Israel formal recognition, within secure, recognised and mutually agreed boundaries, as a permanent feature of the geography…

— Anthony Crosland

There is no radical or moderate Islam. There is only one Islam and that is the Islam from the Koran, the holy…

— Geert Wilders

Hamas thinks they can kill the will of people by intimidation. Most of those who are killed in the Gaza Strip for…

— Mosab Hassan Yousef

I remember, when 9/11 went down, my reaction was, 'Well, I've had it with humanity.' But I was wrong.

— Patton Oswalt

We do not create terrorism by fighting the terrorists. We invite terrorism by ignoring them.

— George W. Bush

The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history. I mean in this century's history. But we all lived in this…

— Dan Quayle

Jerusalem is not the oldest city in the Western world, but its long and confused past takes us back to pre-Old Testament…

— Carol Drinkwater

Israel is a Jewish state. It isn't a state of all its nations. That is, equal rights to all citizens but not…

— Ayelet Shaked

It's hard to imagine any Muslim fessing up to their secret proclivity for Sharia law knowing they would be deported if they…

— Peter Bergen

“The use of the shemagh and keffiyeh had been adopted by US troops since the war in Iraq”

— Matthew Mather

I am Jewish and proud of this culturally and ethnically - the ways in which I was born this way and am…

— Sarah Silverman

The niqab, for some, has become an antiestablishment symbol around which one can rally and relish in the opportunities for confrontation that…

— Maajid Nawaz

Israel must withdraw from Jerusalem so that it becomes the capital of a state of Palestine.

— Yasser Arafat

In the first instance, therefore, global terrorism created a kind of global community sharing a common fate, something we had previously considered…

— Ulrich Beck

My whole soul rebels against the idea that Hinduism and Islam represent two antagonistic cultures and doctrines.

— Mahatma Gandhi

In hindsight, I must have been looking for a way to write about Jewishness that somehow managed to minimize irony and self-deprecation.

— Zachary Lazar

Over in Afghanistan, Osama stuck his head out of the cave and saw a shadow. So, that means six more weeks of…

— David Letterman

Islam has always been a force that dispels tyrants and tyranny, opression and exploitaion. Islam has always been a force that militates…

— Louis Farrakhan

Palestine belongs to the Arabs in the same sense that England belongs to the English or France to the French.

— Mahatma Gandhi

We must hunt the terrorists down and kill them. There is no other way to respond to those so committed to the…

— Allyson Schwartz

The people of Iran have had to endure repressive laws that have stifled their freedom of speech and religion for too long.

— Nazanin Boniadi

Israel demonstrated real hooliganism during the course of the recent operation, which I demanded.

— Tzipi Livni

Other than the bombs they strap to their chests, Ive got no idea what makes the Palestinians tick.

— Dennis Miller

I am confident the Obama administration will work professionally with any Israeli government.

— Ehud Barak

There was a good moment in Islam when people were actually challenging authority at every level. Very different from the world we…

— Tariq Ali

“Who is a Jew? A person whose integrity decays when unmoved by the knowledge of wrong done to other people.”

— Abraham Joshua Heschel

If we destroy human rights and rule of law in response to terrorism, they have won.

— Joichi Ito