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Quotes About Israel

The Iranian government still denies the Holocaust - so you can't take them seriously. And the Israeli government spreads rumours and disinformation about Iran - because it needs to for the creation of panic. I find these theological states - and in this respect, Israel and Iran are twin brothers - very, very dangerous.
~ Daniel Barenboim
There's a lot of hypocrisy and condescension in Israel's institutionalized support for Mubarak's tyrannical rule, in its backing of a corrupt leader who established a brutal secret police state to suppress his citizens and keep their mouths shut.
~ Sayed Kashua
Israel is a lighthouse and the only democracy in a dark and tyrannical region. It's part of us, of our European identity.
~ Geert Wilders
But Hezbollah now has reared its ugly head in a way that threatens the entire free world. And they want, by their own charter and definition, the destruction of Israel and Christians. That is the truth. That is in their charter.
~ Zach Wamp
I would not rule out going to Israel because I disapprove of the foreign policy any more than I would refuse to play in the UK because I disapprove of Tony Blair's foreign policy.
~ Roger Waters
Anti-Semitic insults by 'Svoboda' have caused outrage on number of occasions both in Ukraine and in Israel.
~ Avigdor Lieberman
Israel is following policies which maximise its security threats... policies which choose expansion over security... policies which lead to their moral degradation, their isolation, their delegitimation, as they call it now, and very likely ultimate destruction. That's not impossible.
~ Noam Chomsky
To the Christian Church, the destruction of the Temple served as an ultimate sign that the Jews were no longer God's chosen people, divine favor having now been transferred to a newer and better Israel.
~ Meir Soloveichik
Even if the Right says that Um Al-Fahm should be outside Israel, this is impossible.
~ Reuven Rivlin
Israel remains a foreign body in this large area, and it always proved that it is unable to coexist with this environment, because the, the scope of the massacres that it has committed does not permit it to coexist.
~ Hassan Nasrallah
There's no doubt that our hearts are with the residents of Gaza. We and the whole world are unable to get to a situation in which Gaza can be rehabilitated. There needs to be an international initiative with Israel's participation, in order to bring an end to the enmity against us.
~ Reuven Rivlin
The Obama administration has been unable to call Jerusalem the capital of Israel because the Palestinians want to claim it as their capital in a future state.
~ Richard Grenell
There are many Palestinians who believe there is no way to recognize Israel as a Jewish state. They call for the right of the return of refugees to Israel - something which is unacceptable for the consensus in Israel and which strikes at the very heart of this issue.
~ Reuven Rivlin
It is unacceptable that Democrat leaders would rather push their divisive agenda and focus only on identity politics instead of holding hearings or doing the bipartisan, substantive work Israel needs.
~ Ronny Jackson
There is total unanimity that the most serious threat facing the United States and Israel is a nuclear-armed Iran.
~ Ted Deutch
It seems unavoidable that history will always link the reestablishment of the State of Israel with the tragedy of the Holocaust.
~ David Novak
On the McLaughlin Report, August 26, 1990: 'There are only two groups that are beating the drums for war in the middle East, the Israeli Defense Ministry and its amen corner in the United States.
~ Pat Buchanan
Who would benefit from a war of civilizations between the West and Islam? Answer: one nation, one leader, one party. Israel, Sharon, Likud.
~ Pat Buchanan
Israel is run by war criminals...
~ Medea Benjamin
The Palestinians are a despotic, undemocratic grouping which promotes a religious war against Israel, a democracy, through terror.
~ Melanie Phillips
I really want to see Israel. I would like to come and to express my support in the peace process there, and help the war orphans.
~ Peta Wilson
The wars of Israel were the only 'holy wars' in history... there can be no more wars of faith. The only way to overcome our enemy is by loving him.
~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer
I wrote that President Bush is passing on to President-elect Obama two wars and an economic debacle. I call it a depression. And he is arming Israel against the Palestinians in every way in Gaza.
~ Helen Thomas
You cannot criticize Israel in this country (USA) and survive
~ Helen Thomas