Israeli Quotes · Page 3

The so-called 'Palestinian autonomous areas' are bantustans. These are restricted entities within the power structure of the Israeli apartheid system.

— Nelson Mandela

Twenty five percent of Israeli citizens are not even Jewish. Anybody can become an Israeli citizen if you qualify. Religion is not…

— Alan Dershowitz

The quiet that envelops space makes the beauty even more powerful, and I only hope that the quiet can one day spread…

— Ilan Ramon

Any Israeli attack on Lebanon, Iran, Syria or Gaza will be met with a fierce response.

— Hassan Nasrallah

An Israeli who thinks that his government is doing everything right wouldn't join the Divan Orchestra in the first place.

— Daniel Barenboim

We are different from many African countries. We represent Africa as the gateway and will do everything to make African and Israeli…

— Hailemariam Desalegn

When the Israeli leaders launched their expansionist war in June 1967 they never envisaged that 40 years later they would still be…

— Ismail Haniyeh

Clinton impressed Assad: a young man who appeared to want to be neutral in the Arab-Israeli dispute - an illusion of course,…

— Robert Fisk

“Yes. I'm an Israeli citizen living in a dream world; a Jewish princess in Arabia, I should have listened to my own…

— Linda Ruth Horowitz

My parents often wondered why I would grow so indignant at the falsification and exploitation of the Nazi genocide. The most obvious…

— Norman Finkelstein

The Israeli military plays more than a critical role in defending the citizens of the Jewish state. It also plays an important…

— Alan Dershowitz

Those [American Jews] who favor the [Israeli] attack on Gaza are certainly guilty of such overwhelming emotional and cultural attachment to Israel…

— Glenn Greenwald

In 1998, I received treatment for my knee by an Israeli therapist. We spoke about Israel and I mentioned 'Scooterman' and he…

— Gary David Goldberg

On the McLaughlin Report, August 26, 1990: 'There are only two groups that are beating the drums for war in the middle…

— Pat Buchanan

I write in a slangy colloquial speech that has not been common in the Israeli tradition of writing, and that is one…

— Etgar Keret

The other thing is going to be me being able to show not just the American people or the Israeli people but…

— Barack Obama

We are more often than not asked, for instance, to regard Israel and Palestine as in a conflict of this kind, a…

— Judith Butler

I found that looking at the Israeli/Palestinian conflict from an outside vantage point was actually quite distancing. The history of the conflict,…

— Jason Alexander

The end of the occupation. The right of return of the Palestinian people. These are critical dividing lines in human rights. We…

— Van Jones

Unsettled Middle East, in these times where the people are trying to find their way towards democracy, could be interesting for many…

— Tariq Ramadan

In the Goldstone Report, Israeli perpetrators of possible crimes against humanity were made subject to prosecution and punishment, although the geopolitical leverage…

— Richard A. Falk

I hope that the Palestinians don't make the mistake of unleashing a new intifada. They've tried it twice before, and the consequences…

— Tom Segev

Sharona Muir has written a gripping personal memoir about her odyssey to rediscover and reclaim her father. Along the way she uncovers…

— Edmund White

I never regard my characters, my protagonists, as personifications. It's not that I sit by my desk and I pick up a…

— Amos Oz

Israeli occupation exposes us very young to the extremes of our emotions, until we cannot feel except in the extreme.

— Susan Abulhawa

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

It is wrong to say the U.S. should "not take sides" in the Israeli-Palestinian dispute.

— Howard Berman

I am ready to compromise, but there is one thing I won't compromise on: the safety of the Israeli people.

— Ariel Sharon

I have been a long-time advocate for a just Arab-Israeli peace and for Palestinian refugees.

— Queen Noor of Jordan

Every Israeli government since 1967, of left or right, has asserted that Jerusalem is Israel's capital and has allowed Israeli Jews to…

— Elliott Abrams

The obstacle is the USA administration. I know there is a strong Israeli lobby in America, no doubt of it.

— Yasser Arafat

State terrorism - and yet the Israeli invasion Goldstone investigated is still commonly referred to as the Gaza War.

— Norman Finkelstein

The Amman Agreement failed because there was American pressure, and Israeli pressure, on Jordan to deal alone.

— Yasser Arafat

The list of U.S. vetoes at the Security Council to protect Israeli aggression and occupation is huge.

— Noam Chomsky

The most fatal mistake of this Israeli military junta is that they have the complex of the arrogance of power. This is…

— Yasser Arafat

We must do everything to ensure they [the Palestinians] never do return. The old will die and the young will forget,

— David Ben-Gurion

American leaders worry about the security of their country. Israeli leaders worry about the survival of their country.

— Benjamin Netanyahu

The attacks inside Israel are operations we carry out in response to Israeli crimes against our people.

— Ahmed Yassin

The underlying problem remains the Israeli occupation of Palestinian land and the continuing Israeli assaults against our people.

— Ismail Haniyeh

Agribusiness could provide an opportunity for joint Israeli-Palestinian projects, spurred on by Israeli technical expertise in this field.

— Edgar Bronfman, Sr