Quotes About Israel

We have to rethink the two-state solution.

There is no longer a two-state solution to the Israel-Palestine conflict.

The United States is for a two-state solution. The United States wants to see the Israelis and Palestinians come together.

Repetition is hell. How can we get out of those cycles of violence? How come we are still today talking about peace in Israel? How come we're not able to find a solution yet? Something that will bring peace in this part of the world? It's the same in a lot of places in the world right now. How come we are not able to find peace?

No one was talking about a two-state solution until the '90s, then it became an acceptable solution.

A comprehensive approach to a two-state solution is not just, we believe, in Israel's interest. It's in our interest.

Hillary would be great for Israel, she would be great for the Middle East, she would be great for the world. Hillary will be excellent for those who back a two-state solution. For those who don't believe in the two-state solution, then she would not be so great... because she believes in it.

There are no easy solutions for Israel's own governance problems.

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.

I prefer to solve conflict with kindness. That's my first approach. If that doesn't work, there's always the alternative. I'm from Israel. I can tell a person what I think if I have to!

Jerusalem will always be the capital of Israel, even if someday a peace agreement were to be reached.

The idea that the rest of the world was somehow being held hostage by the Arab-Israeli conflict once had a minimal basis in reality. In the first 20 years of Israel's existence, every Arab country was in an active state of war with the Jewish state.

I don't understand if it was, like, Palestinians were here, then it was called Israel, and that's the problem, or they never had their land. Everyone just goes back and forth. So it seems like everyone can just have a piece... call the whole thing something else.

Hear, oh Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is One.

The prophetic vision of the Temple was revealed to Ezekiel on Yom Kippur in the year 3352 (408 B.C.E.), a Jubilee Year.6 On Yom Kippur in the Jubilee Year, Jewish slaves are freed and land in Israel that had been sold during the previous forty-nine years, is returned to its original tribal ownership.

From under the portal of the Holy of Holies in the Third Temple, a trickle of sweet water will flow through the Temple Courtyard and out to the countryside. The trickle will become a stream, and the stream will become a great river on whose banks trees will grow that produce new fruit every month. The leaves of these trees will heal every wound and sickness.17 The river will transform the Land of Israel into the Garden of Eden.

A friend of mine tells a story about some Israeli students who were called up in the 1973 Yom Kippur War. As soon as they were notified, they went back to their rooms at University, and each packed his gear, a rifle, and a book of Yehuda Amichai's poems.

As a result of the historic catastrophe in which Titus of Rome destroyed Jerusalem and Israel was exiled from its land, I was born in one of the cities of the Exile.

The settlement of the Land of Israel is the essence of Zionism. Without settlement, we will not fulfill Zionism. It's that simple.

When someone denies the right of Israel to exist, it hurts us, just as an attack on a close member of our family would hurt us.

Israel is the only democracy in the Middle East.

Israel is the only democratic country in the Middle East.

At the end of the day, Americans know that the ones they really can trust, in all the Middle East, it's only Israel.

As the lone democracy in the Middle East and America's most loyal ally, Israel deserves our attention and support.