Quotes About Israel

Israel said to Joseph, "Look! I am about to die, but God will be with you and will bring you back to the land of your fathers." Genesis 48:21

How happy you are, Israel! Who is like you, a people saved by the Lord? Deuteronomy 33:29

We have sworn an oath to them by the LORD, the God of Israel, and now we cannot touch them. Joshua 9:19

says— / your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel: / 'I am the LORD your God, / who teaches

I will shake the house of Israel among all the nations, as one shakes a sieve, but not a pebble will fall to the ground. Amos 9:9

The last thing that Israel needs is to be part of the internal agenda in the United States between Republicans and Democrats.

If Israel does not find the way to disengage from the Palestinians, its future might resemble the experience of Belfast or Bosnia - two communities bleeding each other to death for generations.

I resent the idea that Israel is part of the political agenda in United States' campaigns, really.

What qualified me to write about Israel was that I wanted to; it took no time to convince myself. The only reservation I had was about eaven: I wanted to write about the Jewish heaven but did not feel qualified because I did not and do not believe in 'it,' though I should.

One way or another, Gaza's residents must live in peace with Israel.

The Jewish state has so much to teach diaspora Jews about resilience, innovation, energy, and optimism.

Israel is shutting out the Arab world and shutting itself in.

Israelis would mostly breathe a sigh of relief if Palestinians were to disappear.

The international community and Israel have the same opinion regarding the Hamas government. We don't say we are going to boycott it forever. We say the Hamas government must abide by the obligations the Palestinian Authority has signed.

Before the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948, Jewish leaders were intent on discovering and laying claim to their heritage in the region. They took an intense interest in archaeology, embarking on quests to bring significant items of Judaica to Palestine.

As someone who spent a lot of years living in Jerusalem, one of the great perks is that when you come back, and you get into these Israel arguments in your American-Jewish clan, you can really just silence them by saying, 'I lived there.' So we used it like a bludgeon.

The mortal mind alone cannot devise an answer to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, because the true answer lies on a level of consciousness that's beyond our mortal thinking. Quite simply, when it comes to Israel and the Palestinians, we need a miracle.

Israel is not only about Bibi and wars; it is about a new generation finding itself through its culture and its food.

David christened it: "This is the house of Yahzeh ha-Elohim [1 ahveh of the Gods], and this is the altar of the burnt offering for Israel" (xxii, 1)

The actual truth about Gad is it's one of the original 13 tribes of Israel, so you can actually trace my lineage back to, like, those guys who had, like, a hand in the Bible and have since become very famous from that. So I come from very famous lineage. Granted, they didn't have cameras back then, so none of them had TV shows.

Though Yoav wasn't quite able yet to discriminate between weekends and weekdays, American goyim and American Jews—Israel took off Fridays and Saturdays, the States took off Saturdays, Sundays, and apparently the rest of the summer.

After having served the State of Israel for 36 months, or 154 weeks, or 1,080 days, they exchanged their drabs for denims, beat their munitions into passports, and shipped beyond the sea to find their fortunes. To find themselves, or the selves they'd been, and to forget the commands that bound them.

To come and say about me that I'm destroying Israel, that I hate Israel, that's a bit insulting.

The heads of the K.G.B. were deeply anti-Semitic and saw in Israel and world Jewry 'a danger which is only second to the main enemy, the United States.' The K.G.B. was intent on destabilizing Israel, totally disproportionate to the country's strength or influence.