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Quotes About Israel

In 2016, protesters at London's King's College disrupted a talk by Ami Ayalon, the former head of Shin Bet, Israel's version of our FBI. Students from a pro-Palestinian group chanted, threw chairs, smashed windows, and repeatedly set off the fire alarm in the room where Ayalon was speaking about the two-state solution to the Israel/Palestine situation, which is something he strongly supports.
~ Deborah E. Lipstadt
The judges' primary objective was to conduct a scrupulously fair legal proceeding that would win the respect of the world. Hausner's goal was to tell the story of the Holocaust in all its detail, and in so doing, to capture the imagination not just of Israel's youth and world Jewry, but of the entire world . -- The Eichmann Trial, page 121
~ Deborah E. Lipstadt
We are to rejoice, but we are to "rejoice with fear" (Ps. 2:11). Therefore, to view and behave as if Christ Jesus is our "homeboy" is to treat the Holy One of Israel with contempt.
~ Jeffrey D. Johnson
When God shook Israel awake from her violent slumber, He said, "Now this was the sin of your sister Sodom: She and her daughters were arrogant, overfed and unconcerned; they did not help the poor and needy" (Ezekiel 16:49, emphasis added).
~ Jen Hatmaker
While I was sat there being my usual pessoptimistic self, he was ecstatic: Verdant fields! Green on your right and on your left; green everywhere! We have given life to what was dead. This is why we have named the borders of former Israel the Green Belt. For beyond them lie barren mountains and desert reaches, a wilderness calling out to us, 'Come you tractors of civilisation
~ Emile Habiby
I have a premonition that will not leave me; as it goes with Israel so will it go with all of us. Should Israel perish, the Holocaust will be upon us.
~ Eric Hoffer
Stuxnet, the most sophisticated cyber weapon in the world, with code fifty times larger than typical malware.99 The CIA, the NSA, and Israel's elite cyber Unit 8200 reportedly joined forces.100 Forensics revealed that Stuxnet used four rare and valuable "zero day" vulnerabilities (coding flaws unknown to security researchers or software vendors) to find the precise software operating Iran's centrifuges, spread inside, hide, and destroy without a trace.101
~ Amy B. Zegart
For Luke, Anna represents the ancient lost tribes of Israel, separated from their Judean counterparts when the Assyrians destroyed the Northern Kingdom seven hundred years earlier.
~ Amy-Jill Levine
Finally, Rahab is a Canaanite, Ruth is a Moabite, and Uriah, Bathsheba's first husband, is a Hittite; and all show deep loyalty to Israel and Israel's God.
~ Amy-Jill Levine
Knowing the ancient story, Matthew's readers can anticipate that the second Joseph, son of Jacob, will dream dreams, take his family to Egypt to protect them, and return to the land of Israel. Since that original Joseph is the father of Ephraim, the eponymous ancestor of the main Northern tribe, we readers can even expect this second Joseph to relocate north, to Galilee.
~ Amy-Jill Levine
The vote reflected both the power of the Israel lobby and scepticism over Saudi support for the US following an American air strike on Libya, with some US politicians fearing Saudi Arabia might divert weapons to 'terrorists'.16
~ Andrew Feinstein
In September 1952, he travelled to Egypt to participate in a bizarre project that was to provide an entrée to the world of arms dealing. In 1948, the Egyptian army had been humiliated in a war with the newly created state of Israel. The response of the then Egyptian ruler, King Farouk, was to hire a number of ex-military Germans to assist in training his troops, allegedly with the tacit support of both the CIA and Gehlen Org. When
~ Andrew Feinstein
Only weeks after Oslo began, when nearly all the world and most of Israel was drunk with the idea of peace, I argued that a Palestinian society not constrained by democratic norms would be a fear society that would pose a grave threat to Israel.
~ Natan Sharansky
Israel's capital will never again be a divided city, a city with a wall at its center, a city in which two flags fly. This city, will, in its entirety, absorb immigrants, welcome pilgrims and be the eternal capital of Israel forever.
~ Yitzhak Shamir
My heart goes out to the brave citizens of Syria, who each day risk and even sacrifice their lives to achieve freedom from a murderous regime. We in Israel welcome the historic struggle to forge democratic, peace-loving governments in our region.
~ Shimon Peres
Suppose a part of Britain or a part of America was taken away and given to the Jews as Israel. Do you think the Americans are going to sit quietly and say 'Welcome,' and all that? They won't.
~ Mahathir Mohamad
Most of the Jewish refugees, stripped of their considerable possessions, came to Israel. They were welcomed by the Jewish state. They were given shelter and support, and they were integrated into Israeli society together with half a million survivors of the European Holocaust.
~ Yitzhak Shamir
The Wall on Shabbat was one of the coolest experiences, full of joy and energy. I left Israel overflowing with pride. It's a magical, welcoming place.
~ Sarah J. Maas
As Israel prepares to enter, my position is well known. It is one that I have taken at previous Olympics. It is wrong that the IOC refuses to have a minute's silence for Israeli athletes that were slaughtered in Munich.
~ Brian Williams
Iran is a major threat to the well-being of Europe and America just as much as it is for the state of Israel.
~ Ehud Olmert
As an Israeli-American I am always concerned about the well-being of Israel.
~ Haim Saban
I hope that Americans will give careful and well-informed thought to root causes and historical realities, in which case I think they will question why a supposedly 'legitimate' state such as Israel has had to conduct decades of war against a subject refugee population without ever achieving its goals.
~ Ismail Haniyeh
The President of Iran has called for the destruction of Israel and the West and has even denied the holocaust took place. Iran and its terrorist arm Hezbollah are responsible for the current conflicts between Israel and Lebanon.
~ Michael McCaul
My conviction is that the best strategy to defend the West is to defend Israel.
~ Jose Maria Aznar