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Quotes About Israel

the First Testament is under no illusion about whether implementing the Torah has the potential to achieve God's purpose for Israel's life. There is no direct link between seeking to restrain injustice in society and the implementing of God's reign. Implementing God's reign is fortunately God's business.
~ John E. Goldingay
The Feast of Trumpets anticipates the future regathering of Israel (vv. 23–25).
~ Unknown
Thanks to quality education, Israel is one of the most advanced countries in the world .. Israel is advancing in high-tech even more than other developed countries.
~ Bill Gates
Before Israel dies, it must be humiliated and degraded. Allah willing, before they die, they will experience humiliation and degradation every day.
~ Khaled Mashal
Liev cares about a lot things. Israel is one of them. We had the good fortune of going there a couple of years ago. To share that experience with him was a great pleasure.
~ Naomi Watts
Insofar as Zionism sought to solve the Jewish question, it must be reckoned not just a failure but a catastrophe: Israel is the main cause of anti-Semitism in the world today.
~ Norman Finkelstein
I had faith in Israel before it was established, I have faith in it now.
~ Harry S. Truman
Internationally, there is one state that stands in defiance of practically every UN resolution that affects it: Israel. In the international community, Israel stands for the exercise of power with impunity. Israel defies the international community consistently—not because it is the world's sole superpower but because it is backed up by the world's sole superpower.
~ Unknown
Isaac and I are going to Israel to ride for peace enviromental justice and a safer world for us all.
~ Mandy Patinkin
I'm on the board of directors for Peace Now, which works tirelessly between the Palestinians and the Israelis to create peace in the Middle East and we've never been closer.
~ Mandy Patinkin
So spake Israel's true king, and to the Fiend Made answer meet, that made void all his wiles. So fares it, when with truth falsehood contends.
~ John Milton
In Israel in order to be a realist you must believe in miracles.
~ David Ben-Gurion
I have also written a book about the Giving of the Torah, and a book on the Days of Awe, and a book on the books of Israel that have been written since the day the Torah was given to Israel.
~ Shmuel Yosef Agnon
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
I felt that, if I had taken some photographs of Bloch against the background of Mme de Villeparisis's salon, they would have produced an image of Israel like the images in spirit photographs—so disturbing because they do not appear to emanate from humanity, so disappointing because they nonetheless resemble humanity too closely.
~ Marcel Proust
Israel is a country that respects freedom - freedom of assembly, freedom of speech and freedom of worship.
~ George Pataki
Let us make it clear that we will never turn our backs on our steadfast friends in Israel, whose adherence to the democratic way must be admired by all friends of freedom.
~ John F. Kennedy
Freedom from Egypt should have meant freedom from idols for Israel.
~ Jud Wilhite
Ufologists are at a loss to explain the lack of sightings in Israel's near neighbors—it is as if the aliens, unlike most Earthlings, are aware of Israel's borders.
~ Unknown
In Revelation 16:13-16, Satan sends out demonic spirits to entice the leaders of the world's nations to gather their armies at Armageddon in northern Israel for the final great military campaign of this age.
~ Unknown
the ways in which the other deities found their way into the profile and character of Israel's god. So the place of the other deities is not simply alongside Israel's deity but within the god Yahweh as well as in differentiation and, at times, conflict with him. The development of a typology of convergence and differentiation
~ Unknown
Genesis 49:25-26 possibly point to an early stage when Israel knew three deities, El, Asherah, and Yahweh. In addition, Baal constituted a fourth deity in Israel's early religious history. This situation changed by the period of the early monarchy. Yahweh and El were identified, and at some point, devotion to the goddess Asherah did not continue as an identifiably separate cult.
~ Unknown
although largely Canaanite according to currently available cultural data, Israel expressed a distinct sense of origins and deity and possessed largely distinct geographical holdings in the hill country by the end of the Iron I period.
~ Unknown
One day the UN Secretary General proposes that, in the interest of global peace and harmony, the world's soccer players should come together and form one United Nations global soccer team. "Great idea," says his deputy. "Er, but who would we play?" "Israel, of course.
~ Mark Steyn