Israel Quote by Ilan Pappé

Let them say what they want. I will not demand that the Jewish Agency allocate a sum of 300,000 or 100,000 pounds sterling to…

— Yitzhak Gruenbaum

There is the Jewish Agency, which gets a lot of money from the United States, from American Jews, whose sole job it is to…

— Uri Avnery

We walked outside, Ben-Gurion accompanying us. Allon repeated his question, What is to be done with the Palestinian population?' Ben-Gurion waved his hand in…

— Yitzhak Rabin

“As Ben-Gurion so often said, the moral high ground is also the basis of power.”

— Shimon Peres

“Ben-Gurion once said that in Israel, “in order to be a realist, you must believe in miracles.” After such extraordinary achievement in science and…

— Shimon Peres

“In Jerusalem, as elsewhere in Palestine, the Haganah's basic strategy reflected a philosophy propounded by David Ben-Gurion. What the Jews had, they must hold.…

— Larry Collins

David Ben-Gurion understood that the public's trust is given to a leader in order to lead, determine clear goals and make difficult decisions. The…

— Ariel Sharon

That was my first lesson from Ben-Gurion. Then I saw him making peace, and I saw him making war. He mobilized me before the…

— Shimon Peres

After '45, Ben Gurion started to organize the Zionist movement and the conference in Baltimore. At this convention, they decided that the helm of…

— Yitzhak Shamir

Already at the time of Israel's birth, Ben-Gurion extended his hand in peace to the Arab nations. His hand was rejected, but it remains…

— Ehud Olmert

David Ben-Gurion established the Israeli intelligence community in June of 1948, just three weeks after the establishment of Israel and in the midst of war.

— Ronen Bergman

A story once went the rounds of Israel to the effect that Ben-Gurion described me as 'the only man' in his cabinet. What amused…

— Golda Meir