Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ehud Olmert

I dont know that there is one serious American representative that will advise Israel to sit with a terrorist government and negotiate with them.

Ehud Olmert

Israel always has to be in a position to defend itself against any adversary and against any threat of any kind.

Israel, as the Jewish state, must disappear from the map.

The attacks inside Israel are operations we carry out in response to Israeli crimes against our people.

Alexei Sayle

Israel is the Jimmy Saville of nation states,

Zubin Mehta

Most Arab Israelis speak Hebrew, but not the other way around. It's about time that changed.

Albert Einstein

Israel is the only place on earth where Jews have the possibility to shape public life according to their own traditional ideals.

Alcee Hastings

The actions of the terrorist organizations, Hezbollah, in Lebanon, and Hamas, in Gaza, against Israel are unconscionable. Instead of working towards peace, these terrorist organizations have chosen to perpetuate the violence.

Alcee Hastings

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.

Ali Khamenei

The fake Zionist regime will disappear from the landscape of geography.

Ali Khamenei

Israel Is A Hideous Entity In the Middle East Which Will Undoubtedly Be Annihilated.

Alexander Haig

Israel is the largest American aircraft carrier in the world that cannot be sunk, does not carry even one American soldier, and is located in a critical region for American national security.

Yitzhak Rabin

We were all surprised how smooth it went, relative to what was expected. It took Israeli society time, 10 years, to become ripe for such a move,

If America is truly Israels greatest ally, we should not be asking it to put its citizens and future at risk by forcing the establishment of a hostile Palestinian state as the only option.

The bonds of trust between the United States and Israel have been frayed, but even the hostility and disrespect the Obama administration has shown has not severed those bonds.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

There is no answer to Auschwitz...To try to answer is to commit a supreme blasphemy. Israel enables us to bear the agony of Auschwitz without radical despair, to sense a ray of God's radiance in the jungles of history.

Ban Ki-moon

I have been, and will remain, outspoken in my insistence that Israel has a right to live in peace and security.

Conan O'Brien

On a trip to Israel, Sarah Palin asked the Israelis why they're apologizing all the time. They responded saying, 'Because we told everyone Tina Fey was coming.'

We understand that Mr. Sharon has to show the Israeli people that he is conceding on one side and strengthening his position on the other. That worries us, but I think that in the end, justice will have to prevail.

This shows how serious the Israelis are about security,

E. O. Wilson

There have been quite a lot of developments since 1998 -- one of the most important has been the examination by an Israeli botanist of pollen taken from the cloth,

David Ben-Gurion

We must expel Arabs and take their places.

David Ben-Gurion

We must do everything to ensure they [the Palestinian refugees] never do return

David Ben-Gurion

The most dangerous enemy to Israel's security is the intellectual inertia of those who are responsible for security.

David Ben-Gurion

In the midst of wanton aggression, we still call upon the Arab inhabitants of the State of Israel to return to the ways of peace and play their part in the development of the State, with full and equal citizenship and due representation in its bodies and institutions - provisional or permanent.

David Ben-Gurion

It's not a matter of maintaining the status quo. We have to create a dynamic state, oriented towards expansion.

David Ben-Gurion

We do not want to create a situation like that which exists in South Africa, where the whites are the owners and rulers, and the blacks are the workers. If we do not do all kinds of work, easy and hard, skilled and unskilled, if we become merely landlords, then this will not be our homeland

David Ben-Gurion

No city in the world, not even Athens or Rome, ever played as great a role in the life of a nation for so long a time, as Jerusalem has done in the life of the Jewish people.

David Ben-Gurion

Let me first tell you one thing: It doesn't matter what the world says about Israel; it doesn't matter what they say about us anywhere else. The only thing that matters is that we can exist here on the land of our forefathers. And unless we show the Arabs that there is a high price to pay for murdering Jews, we won't survive.

David Ben-Gurion

We regard it as our duty to declare that Jewish Jerusalem is an organic and inseparable part of the State of Israel, as it is an inseparable part of the history of Israel, of the faith of Israel.

David A. Bednar

The tender mercies of the Lord are available to all of us and...the Redeemer of Israel is eager to bestow such gifts upon us.

David Mamet

It's hard for a Jew of my generation, an American Jew, who is philo-Zionistic, not to romanticize Israel.

Daniel Barenboim

European anti-Semitism goes much further back than to the partition of Palestine and the establishment of Israel in 1948. It even goes further back than the Holocaust.