Quotes About Israel

Zionism and pessimism are not compatible.

The purpose of the Jewish state is to secure the Jewish future. That is why Israel must always have the ability to defend itself, against any threat.

My commitment to the security and future of Israel is based upon basic morality as well as enlightened self-interest. Our role in supporting Israel honors our own heritage.

The attitude of 'every nation unto itself' is a destructive one for the future of Israel.

So I think we should stay focused on the real problem in the Middle East. It's not Israel. It's these dictatorships that are developing nuclear weapons with the specific goal of wiping Israel away.

Unprovoked attacks on Israel's borders, murdering Israeli soldiers, taking Israeli hostages and showering rockets targeting and killing Israeli civilians are not furthering any legitimate goal.

Aliyah is the central goal of the State of Israel.

Italy was about churches, Greece it's ruins; but Israel was about surviving and about feeling glad.

It is a great provocation to God for us to question his presence, providence, or promise, especially for his Israel to do it, who are so peculiarly bound to trust him.

thus God's spiritual Israel shall be kept through the wilderness of this earth, and from the insults of the gates of hell.

Un hombre puede profesar religión y vivir en una forma de piedad en hipocresía. "Oíd esto, oh casa de Jacob, que son llamados por el nombre de Israel, y han salido de las aguas de Judá; que juran por el nombre del Señor, y hacen mención del Dios de Israel, pero no en la verdad, ni en la justicia".[138]

We made a covenant with the Children of Israel, 'Worship none but God and be good to your parents and to relatives and orphans and the needy. And speak kindly to people.g

Amoz Oz, who said something of the same kind, but from a different perspective: 'People like you', he said to me, 'are going to become very disappointed in Israel in the years ahead. You want it to behave like a European society. Instead, it is becoming a Middle Eastern society. I hope that it will not behave worse than other Middle Eastern societies. But you should not delude yourself that it is likely to behave much better.

This was the virtue of Israel, to have "contended with Elokim and with men" and to have prevailed over their respective concealments of G-d. They are no longer barriers to him; indeed they assent to his blessings. He not only won his struggle with the angel (the guardian angel of Esau) but the angel himself blessed him. This is the achievement of which the Proverbs speak: "He makes even his enemies be at peace with him."14

My friends, you don't need to do nation building in Israel. We're already built. You don't need to export democracy to Israel. We've already got it. And you don't need to send American troops to Israel. We defend ourselves.

The tour of the amusement park–like campus included a chat with Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt. I shared with him Israel's concerns about Google Earth, the global mapping program, which terrorists had used as a targeting device. Google Earth, Schmidt explained, was designed to bring people closer together. "Yes," I acknowledged, "but does it have to bring Hezbollah closer to my children?

The notion of the need to revise America's global role, to palliate Islam, and achieve diplomatic distance from Israel had become conventional by the time I arrived in Washington.

the Sinai Peninsula

The real after-effect result was that the whole of the Middle East united against Israel, which no one can support anymore.

The Messiah enters [the Hall of the Sons of Illness] and summons all the diseases and all the pains and all the sufferings of Israel that they should come upon him, and all of them come upon him. And would he not thus bring ease to Israel and take their sufferings upon himself, no man could endure the sufferings Israel has to undergo because they neglected the Torah.22

five times that amount to Middle Eastern nations, most of which want to destroy Israel. We can't afford this

The Kushner position was not helped by the fact that the president had been gleefully telling multiple people that Jared could solve the Middle East problem because the Kushners knew all the crooks in Israel.)

Cuando Zacarías profetizó acerca de la conversión nacional de Israel en los tiempos del fin (Zac. 12:10-14), destacó que el Espíritu Santo derramaría el espíritu de gracia y el espíritu de súplica (que es lo mismo que el espíritu de oración):

It was in our power to cause the Arab governments to renounce the policy of strength toward Israel by turning it into a demonstration of weakness.