Israel famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Obama repeatedly has condemned Hamas as a terrorist organization that should be isolated until it renounces violence and recognizes Israel.
-- Aaron Klein -
If Algeria introduced a resolution declaring that the earth was flat and that Israel had flattened it, it would pass by a vote of 164 to 13 with 26 abstentions.
-- Abba Eban -
Nobody does Israel any service by proclaiming its 'right to exist.' Israel's right to exist, like that of the United States, Saudi Arabia and 152 other states, is axiomatic and unreserved. Israel's legitimacy is not suspended in midair awaiting acknowledgement.... There is certainly no other state, big or small, young or old, that would consider mere recognition of its 'right to exist' a favor, or a negotiable concession.
-- Abba Eban -
One of the chief tasks of any dialogue with the Gentile world is to prove that the distinction between anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism is not a distinction at all.
-- Abba Eban -
The Land of Israel will be small, but the people of Israel will make it great. Not in opulence, but in eminence will their destiny be fulfilled, and the elixir of their pride will be distilled not out of dominion or far-flung borders, but out of the faithful and skillful building of the good society.
-- Abba Hillel Silver -
Fifty-seven countries in the world, a third of the United Nations, do not recognize Israel. In a way, I think North Korea has better international relations than Israel.
-- Abdallah II -
Peace with Israel is a strategic imperative for Jordan.
-- Abdallah II -
Mr. President, prime ministers, let us have ambitions: ambitions to move beyond the violence and occupation, to the day when two states, Palestine and Israel, can live together side by side in peace and security.
-- Abdallah II -
Many occasions I've sat down with Israelis to say, where do you see your country in 10 years time, and work me back, so we can figure out the synergies and the connections between Israel and the rest of the Arab world. No Israeli has ever been able to answer that question.
-- Abdallah II -
We have peace with Israel. We're actually the last man standing. So there is going to be immense pressure and people asking, 'Why are we having this relationship when it's not benefiting anybody?' Obviously, my answer is you always benefit from peace.
-- Abdallah II -
Is Israel going to continue to be 'Fortress Israel'? Or, as we all hope, become accepted into the neighborhood, which I believe is the only way we can move forward in harmony.
-- Abdallah II -
When Israel was from bondage led,Led by the Almighty's handFrom out of foreign land,The great sea beheld and fled.
-- Abraham Cowley -
I worry because there is a basic asymmetry, an imbalance, between the two parties. For the Palestinians, it is about status and sovereignty, which could always be adjusted, while for Israel it is about security and trust. And security is something you can't adjust. If you make a mistake on the scrutiny issue, there is no going back.
-- Abraham Foxman -
Israel is the only country in the Middle East where Arabs can be elected to the parliament in a democratic election.
-- Adam Michnik -
The Holocaust is a central event in many people's lives, but it also has become a metaphor for our century. There cannot be an end to speaking and writing about it. Besides, in Israel, everyone carries a biography deep inside him.
-- Aharon Appelfeld -
I think Israel will think one thousands times before invading Gaza.
-- Ahmed Yassin -
Israel, as the Jewish state, must disappear from the map.
-- Ahmed Yassin -
Since Israel does not differentiate between attacking this group or that, we are saying our people can work individually or collectively to face this aggression.
-- Ahmed Yassin -
The attacks inside Israel are operations we carry out in response to Israeli crimes against our people.
-- Ahmed Yassin -
Our critique of Israel has to be about the state, not culture or religion, but the state of Israel
-- Aja Monet -
The United States has an absolute, uncompromising commitment to Israel's security and an absolute conviction that Israel alone must decide the steps necessary to ensure that security. That is Israel's prerogative. We accept that. We endorse that. Whatever Israel decides cannot, will not, will never, not ever, alter our fundamental commitment to her security.
-- Al Gore -
If America has the right to target Osama bin Laden, or terrorists, of course Israel has the right to defend itself from terrorism.
-- Alan Dershowitz -
What an amazing and sacred place [Israel] to end the tour
-- Alanis Morissette -
Israel is the only place on earth where Jews have the possibility to shape public life according to their own traditional ideals.
-- Albert Einstein -
The Second World War must be fomented by taking advantage of the differences between the Fascists and the political Zionists. This war must be brought about so that Nazism is destroyed and that the political Zionism be strong enough to institute a sovereign state of Israel in Palestine. During the Second World War, International Communism must become strong enough in order to balance Christendom, which would be then restrained and held in check until the time when we would need it for the final social cataclysm.
-- Albert Pike -
Unprovoked attacks on Israel's borders, murdering Israeli soldiers, taking Israeli hostages and showering rockets targeting and killing Israeli civilians are not furthering any legitimate goal.
-- Alcee Hastings -
The actions of the terrorist organizations, Hezbollah, in Lebanon, and Hamas, in Gaza, against Israel are unconscionable. Instead of working towards peace, these terrorist organizations have chosen to perpetuate the violence.
-- Alcee Hastings -
Israel is the Jimmy Saville of nation states,
-- Alexei Sayle -
It is not permissible for a Muslim to buy products of the countries that are in a state of war with Islam and Muslims, for example, Israel.
-- Ali al-Sistani -
The fake Zionist regime will disappear from the landscape of geography.
-- Ali Khamenei -
It is the mission of the Islamic Republic of Iran to erase Israel from the map of the region.
-- Ali Khamenei -
Iran's stance has always been clear on this ugly phenomenon (Israel). We have repeatedly said that this cancerous tumor of a state should be removed from the region... No one will allow a bunch of thugs, lechers and outcasts from London, America and Moscow to rule over the Palestinians.
-- Ali Khamenei -
Israel Is A Hideous Entity In the Middle East Which Will Undoubtedly Be Annihilated.
-- Ali Khamenei -
The Syrian civil war is a "crime initiated by the United States and the Zionist regime, Israel."
-- Ali Khamenei -
That Iran is willing to threaten Israel is wrong[. . . .] We pose no threat and if we are conducting nuclear research and development we are no threat to Israel. We have no intention of aggression against any country. [. . .] Today we announce to you that the political will of Iran is aimed at the negotiated settlement of the case and we dont want to aggravate the situation in our region[. . . .] We know that this issue can be settled in a constructive dialogue and we welcome that.
-- Ali Larijani -
You should make the world understand that Israel is the oppressor and that Israel must be destroyed.
-- Ali Meshkini -
To be an actor in the society in Israel, you have to be ten times better than the Israeli Jews. To get the roles in mainstream theater or to get any role, not typecast as an Arab. And also if you are ten times better, not all the time you get the opportunity.
-- Ali Suliman -
Israel is guilty of apartheid and persecution of the Palestinian people, both inside Israel and also in the Occupied Territories.
-- Alice Walker -
I look forward to my first visit to Israel. Music is a universal language that is meant to unify audiences in peace and love, and that is the spirit of our show.
-- Alicia Keys -
My closest friends from Israel make fun of me for becoming an American, and my American friends make fun of how Israeli I am I can't win.
-- Alona Tal -
We must follow the ways of the Lord, and take heed to our own ways, lest they lead us into sin. One can take heed if one is not hasty in speaking. The law says: 'Hear, O Israel, the Lord your God' (Dt. 6:4). It said not: 'Speak,' but 'Hear.' Eve fell because she said to the man what she had not heard from the Lord her God. The first word from God says to you: Hear!
-- Ambrose -
You can't ignore reality. You won't wake up one morning and find that the Arabs of Umm al-Faham have become part of Palestine and are no longer in Israel.
-- Ami Ayalon -
Israel of the coastal plain, where eight out of ten Israeli Jews live far removed from the occupied territories, from the fiery Jerusalem, from the religious and nationalistic conflicts, is unknown to the outside world, almost unknown to itself.
-- Amos Oz -
The minute we leave south Lebanon we will have to erase the word Hezbollah from our vocabulary, because the whole idea of the State of Israel versus Hezbollah was sheer folly from the outset. It most certainly no longer will be relevant when Israel returns to her internationally recognized northern border.
-- Amos Oz -
I like Israel. The fans are incredible. It was the best.
-- Amy Lee -
When, during the Second World War, the island of Malta came through three terrible years of bombardment and destruction, it was rightly awarded the George Medal for bravery: today Israel should be awarded a similar decoration for defending democracy, tolerance and Western values against a murderous onslaught that has lasted twenty times as long.
-- Andrew Roberts -
They always threw their arms around and hugged me while crying our Yiddish endearments. Yet none of them believed in God. They believed in social justice, good works, Israel, and Bette Midler. I was nearly thirty before I met a religious Jew.
-- Anne Lamott -
I don't have any interest to go to Israel. I don't think I'd ever have a cause to go.
-- Annie Lennox -
Unless the Arab states give Israel formal recognition, within secure, recognised and mutually agreed boundaries, as a permanent feature of the geography and politics of the Middle East. But if Israel is to obtain this recognition, she must, in a settlement, put an end to the territorial occupation which she has maintained since the war of 1967; the nine members of the European Community have declared that this is an essential element in a settlement. On behalf of the British Government I underline that need today.
-- Anthony Crosland -
There's no doubt about it that Mubarak has been indeed a partner with Israel, but there's also no doubt about something else. Conditions in Egypt were getting worse and worse, and it was almost just a matter of time before the popular uprising started.
-- Anthony Weiner -
Every dollar that we send in State Department aid or humanitarian aid that saves us from having to get involved with very expensive military actions is a good investment. And frankly, helping Israel fight terrorism in the Middle East is much cheaper than us fighting it here on our shores.
-- Anthony Weiner -
I have absolute respect for Israel and people in Israel who are critical of their own country,
-- Antonio Munoz Molina -
One can criticize the Israeli government, but it is not fair to judge the people of Israel.
-- Antonio Munoz Molina -
I promise to crush Israel and return it to the humiliation and wretchedness of the Koran.
-- Anwar Sadat -
We believe in the fundamental strength of Israel's economy and have confidence in its long-term potential.
-- Ari Fleischer -
Only a few years ago did it suddenly dawn on me that my existential fear regarding my nation’s future and my moral outrage regarding my nation’s occupation policy are not unconnected. On the one hand, Israel is the only nation in the West that is occupying another people. On the other hand, Israel is the only nation in the West that is existentially threatened. Both occupation and intimidation make the Israeli condition unique. Intimidation and occupation have become the two pillars of our condition.
-- Ari Shavit -
As a Jew, it is my historic responsibility to defend the Jewish people. I feel this responsibility for the survival of the Jewish people. We're not going to accept any decision by anybody else about security of the State of Israel. It is our role and only our role.
-- Ariel Sharon -
Israel is a wonderful country. It's a beautiful country. It is ours. But it is a country with 10,000 problems that we have to solve and deal.
-- Ariel Sharon -
Israel may have the right to put others on trial, but certainly no one has the right to put the Jewish people and the State of Israel on trial.
-- Ariel Sharon -
You cannot like the word, but what is happening is an occupation -- to hold 3.5 million Palestinians under occupation. I believe that is a terrible thing for Israel and for the Palestinians.
-- Ariel Sharon -
Both during the elections and as Prime Minister, I have repeatedly and publicly said that I support the establishment of a Palestinian state alongside the State of Israel.
-- Ariel Sharon -
I cannot say that the attitude of the United Nations always is for the Israeli attitude. Israel, I think, has been under severe attacks by members of the United Nations many times.
-- Ariel Sharon -
Close to 80 percent of all terrorist activity in Samaria was directed and financed either by Hizbullah or the Iranians. Iran continues to increase its involvement in terror attacks inside Israel, particularly through a small but radical minority of Israeli Arabs which Iran supports and directs.
-- Ariel Sharon -
But there's one thing we are not going to compromise at all: when it comes to security of Israeli citizens and the State of Israel, there are not going to be any compromises - not now and not in the future.
-- Ariel Sharon -
And Israel, being a tiny, small country, of course has interest to strengthen - we have interest to strengthen our relations with other countries, mostly countries that were hostile for many, many years.
-- Ariel Sharon -
If there will be a serious Palestinian prime minister who makes a 100 percent effort to end terrorism, then we can have peace. Each side has to take steps. If terror continues, there will not be an independent Palestinian state. Israel will not accept it, if terror continues.
-- Ariel Sharon -
When I was born here on one of the farms in Israel, my childhood, I never thought for one day that we will not be living together with Arabs.
-- Ariel Sharon -
Even today I am willing to volunteer to do the dirty work for Israel, to kill as many Arabs as necessary, to deport them, to expel and burn them, to have everyone hate us…
-- Ariel Sharon -
I cannot deny that I have doubts, reservations and fears. However, I have come to the conclusion that in the present regional and international reality, Israel must act with courage to accept the political plan which I described.
-- Ariel Sharon -
I vow that if I was just an Israeli civilian and I met a Palestinian I would burn him and I would make him suffer before killing him.
-- Ariel Sharon -
Aliyah is the central goal of the State of Israel.
-- Ariel Sharon -
Every time we do something you tell me America will do this and will do that . . . I want to tell you something very clear: Don't worry about American pressure on Israel. We, the Jewish people, control America, and theAmericans know it.
-- Ariel Sharon -
Peace should provide security. It should be durable. I'm ready to go far in making painful concessions. But there is one thing I will never make any concessions on and that's the security of the Israeli citizens and the very existence of the state of Israel. The Palestinians are losing time.
-- Ariel Sharon -
It is impossible to have a Jewish, democratic state and at the same time to control all of Eretz Israel. If we insist on fulfilling the dream in its entirety, we are liable to lose it all. Everything. That is where the extremist path takes us.
-- Ariel Sharon -
Israel has many hopes, and faces extreme dangers. The most prominent danger is Iran, which is making every effort to acquire nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles, and establishing an enormous terror network together with Syria in Lebanon.
-- Ariel Sharon -
To our Palestinian neighbours, I assure you that we have a genuine intention to respect your right to live independently and in dignity. I have already said that Israel has no desire to continue to govern over you and control your fate.
-- Ariel Sharon -
To the citizens of Israel, I say: we have passed difficult years, faced the most painful experiences and overcame them. The future lies before us. We are required to take difficult and controversial steps, but we must not miss the opportunity to try to achieve what we have wished for, for so many years: security, tranquillity and peace.
-- Ariel Sharon -
We do not build new Jewish communities in Samaria, Judea and Gaza. The United States has never accepted our building of communities or of the fence. Yet, I've managed to develop relations between Israel and the United States even though President Bush never supported settlements.
-- Ariel Sharon -
As one who participated in all the wars of the state of Israel, I saw the horror of wars. I saw the fear of wars. I saw my best friends being killed in battles. I was seriously injured twice.
-- Ariel Sharon -
As long as I'm needed. I'll be ready to serve. I look forward with optimism. We need the Jews here. Move to Israel! Move to Israel!
-- Ariel Sharon -
Those whom God calls to such a ministry - and a call is essential - must be prepared for a pathway of unpopularity and misunderstanding. "You troubler of Israel" was the way Ahab addressed Elijah.
-- Arthur Wallis -
I feel ashamed that the new, nuclear, neo-liberal India thinks of itself as a 'natural ally' of Israel. Ever since India began to call itself an emerging superpower, it has become a slavish, groveling satellite state of the US.
-- Arundhati Roy -
All sciences originated among the sons of Israel, the reason being the existence of prophecy among them which made their perfection in the sciences amazing.
-- Averroes -
It would be better to drown these prisoners in the Dead Sea if possible, since that's the lowest point in the world.
-- Avigdor Lieberman -
The security of the citizens of Israel, the future of the state of Israel, this is the Israeli governments responsibility.
-- Avigdor Lieberman -
My father is sure that Israel keeps the Holocaust from happening again. I worry that it might hasten its recurrence.
-- Ayelet Waldman -
I strongly reject threats by any member state to destroy another or outrageous attempts to deny historical facts such as the Holocaust.
-- Ban Ki-moon -
Although Israel was founded based on the historic Jewish homeland and the need to have a Jewish homeland, Israeli democracy has been premised on everybody in the country being treated equally and fairly. And I think that that is what's best about Israeli democracy.
-- Barack Obama -
We continue to believe that a two-state solution is the only way for the long-term security of Israel, if it wants to stay both a Jewish state and democratic.
-- Barack Obama -
Those who threaten Israel threaten us. Israel has always faced these threats on the frontlines, and I will bring to the White House an unshakable commitment to Israel's security. That starts with insuring Israel's qualitative military advantage. I will insure that Israel can defend itself from any threat, from Gaza to Tehran.
-- Barack Obama -
Iran has made vile comments, anti-Semitic comments, comments about the destruction of Israel. It is precisely for that reason that even before I became president, I said Iran could not have a nuclear weapon.
-- Barack Obama -
Those who adhere to the ideology of rejecting Israel`s right to exist, they might as well reject the Earth beneath them or the sky above, because Israel is not going anywhere.
-- Barack Obama -
No nation in the world has so many drastic problems squeezed into so small a space, under such urgent pressure of time and heavy burden of history, as Israel.
-- Barbara Tuchman -
In America, unlike England, unlike Israel, unlike Japan, other democracies, we have elections that have staggered terms.
-- Barney Frank -
None of us and none of the Arabs trust Israel.
-- Bashar al-Assad -
Since its very inception, Israel has been a threat.
-- Bashar al-Assad -
The Israeli lobby has clout in the U.S., which means that re-arranging the region and controlling its resources one way or another, will serve Israel through its control over the American administration.
-- Bashar al-Assad -
Israel does not care about the international public opinion.
-- Bashar al-Assad -
It would be a mistake to link anything that Israel does to a certain circumstance. And it is a mistake to feel comfortable in any circumstance just because Israel did not act on it.
-- Bashar al-Assad
