Israel Quotes · Page 217

I would have doubled up and tripled up the sanctions [on Iran] and made a good deal.

— Donald Trump

I wasn't in any way a kind of soothsayer or not surprised when Sept. 11 happened. I was absolutely shocked.

— Jon Ronson

Can it be I am the only Jew residing in Danville, Kentuchy, looking for matzoh in the Safeway and the A & P?

— Maxine Kumin

What people have got to remember is that Sept. 11 happened in 2001 and not in 2003. It was planned under the…

— Jack Straw

The Arabs are ready to accept a strong Israel with nuclear arms - all it has to do is open the gates…

— Mahmoud Darwish

By having the President's name on buildings, that is a potential terrorist target.

— Richard Painter

The Pashtuns in particular are kind of trapped. They've never accepted the Durand Line nor has any Afghan government historically accepted it.

— Noam Chomsky

Israel and the Palestinians must resolve their own differences. The United States can play an important role as facilitator and guarantor.

— Alan Dershowitz

It is no exaggeration to say that Israeli policy in the occupied territories is not simply a matter of foreign policy -…

— John Denham

I hope any government formed in Egypt will understand there is no choice but to maintain the framework of international agreements, which…

— Ehud Barak

Al-Qaida in particular remains dangerous, and there [in Iraq] is some residual militia and special group presence. There are still between 20…

— David Petraeus

In a place like Israel, they're very concerned with Iran, so there's a lot of interest. So they want to see what…

— Marjane Satrapi

“It’s a common slander of the Jews, but it’s no slander of a huge fraction of the Germans. They went like sheep…

— Martin Amis

Did you follow what [General Yehoshafat] Harkabi wrote? Formerly of the Israeli military intelligence service. Remember him? Did you follow what he…

— Yasser Arafat

Geographically, Afghanistan is a good place for the terrorists, because it's surrounded by mountains, and there are lots of villages inside mountains,…

— Najibullah Quraishi

Arnošt Lustig is one of the leading contemporary Czech fiction writers, and certainly the most important Jewish writer of Bohemia to have…

— Josef Skvorecky

It is important that democracy in Lebanon is protected and that Hezbollah will not be supported by outside forces like Syria and…

— Ehud Olmert

“the 1962 Novocherkassk massacre in which Soviet troops with machine guns mowed down a group of factory protesters—”

— Donnie Eichar

The cornerstone of our policy in that part of the world is to help democracies. Lebanon's a democracy. We want the Siniora…

— George W. Bush

If you think you can finish ISIS off with the PYD and YPG, you cannot, because they are terrorist groups as well.

— Recep Tayyip Erdogan

We've had Muslims in America since George Washington. And we've had many successful Muslims. We just lost a particular well-known one with…

— Hillary Clinton

When the other side of the world asks for freedom for not wearing hijab, the other side of the world asks for…

— Norma Marthalia

A military or government hierarchy is anathema to the dispersed population and diverse tribes of mountainous Afghanistan.

— Iqbal Quadir

People seem to forget that Saddam was the only leader in the world who praised the attacks of 9/11 as a good thing.

— Paul Wolfowitz

When will the veil be lifted that casts so black a night over the universe? God of Israel, lift at last the…

— Jean Racine

We need to separate the two peoples: Israeli Arabs are part and parcel of Israel, and Palestinians should be separate, as part…

— Isaac Herzog

We need to understand that an open society and free speech and press... really are the best weapons against al Qaeda and…

— Elliott Abrams

If you can resolve this transition of [Bashar] Assad, that is absolutely possible, but you have to have a clarity for everybody…

— John F. Kerry

Shifting loyalties in the Middle East make it difficult to vet supposed moderate groups.

— Jeff Fortenberry

The Palestinian people have no national identity. I, Yasser Arafat, man of destiny, will give them that identity through conflict with Israel.

— Yasser Arafat

I'm not naive. I know perfectly well that there isn't a single Arab or Muslim in the world who would say: There…

— Daniel Barenboim

Our law is a Jordanian law that we inherited, which applies to both the West Bank and Gaza, and sets the death…

— Yasser Arafat

War on terror is far less of a military operation and far more of an intelligence-gathering, law-enforcement operation.

— John F. Kerry

We are succeeding in Iraq. It's a tough struggle with setbacks, but we are succeeding.

— Anonymous

I am not saying that I want to ban Islam. I want less Islam in Europe because it doesn't allow any room…

— Geert Wilders

In Israel, the role of the writer is dictated by the language in which you write. Writers see themselves as cultural prophets.

— Etgar Keret

The relationship between the Jews and Arabs is necessary to help build a bridge between Israelis and Palestinians.

— Reuven Rivlin

Without Hitler, the State of Israel probably would not exist today. To that extent he was probably the Jews' greatest friend.

— David Irving

Rather than starting a new inferno in Iraq, our energies would have been better spent in extinguishing the existing fire in Palestine.

— Iqbal Sacranie

Is it really so hard to believe the fact that Bush and his cabinet turned a blind eye to let the attacks…

— Abby Martin