I Quotes
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“Isolationism is over.”
“IsoldA: The only way to be alone is to behave as though we are alone already.”
“Isoäiti ei pelännyt mitään, ei olisi pelännyt Bobrikoviakaan jos se olisi tullut tiellä vastaan Isoäiti ei olisi käynyt tarjoamassa keisarille kansalaisadressia. Se olisi syöttänyt sen sille.”
“Ispod taka sloja magle skrivaju se izgublijedjele ulice, sve one pune pukotina koje se iscrtavajuna njima poput bora na licu čovjeka. Pričaju priču o starosti, o tisuću ovakvih hladnih večeri , o mrazu koji već godinama u ovo doba pokrije krovove i o svim ukrasima koji još uvijek sjaje u cijelom gradu.”
Source: Grad zvijeri
“Israel also deprived the world of its chance of shedding tears of genuine sympathy over her destruction. The world resents this; it likes to feel noble and sympathetic.”
Source: Coat of Many Colors: Israel
“Israel always has to be in a position to defend itself against any adversary and against any threat of any kind.”
“Israel and Rwanda both play an active part in international organizations, including the U.N., but I think it's true that our unique experiences as nations have shaped a fierce independence that we will not relinquish.”
“Israel and the Palestinians must resolve their own differences. The United States can play an important role as facilitator and guarantor.”
“Israel, and you who call yourself Israel, the Church that calls itself Israel, and the revolt that calls itself Israel, and every nation chosen to be a nation – none of these lands is yours, all of you are thieves of holiness, all of you at war with Mercy. Who will say it? Will America say, We have stolen it, or France step down? Will Russia confess, or Poland say, We have sinned? All bloated on their scraps of destiny, all swaggering in the immunity of superstition. Ishmael, who was saved in the wilderness, and given shade in the desert, and a deadly treasure under you: has Mercy made you wise? Will Ishmael declare, We are in debt forever? Therefore the lands belong to none of you, the borders do not hold, the Law will never serve the lawless. To every people the land is given on condition. Perceived or not, there is a covenant, beyond the constitution, beyond sovereign guarantee, beyond the nation’s sweetest dreams of itself. The Covenant is broken, the condition is dishonoured, have you not noticed that the world has been taken away? You have no place, you will wander through yourselves from generation to generation without a thread. Therefore you rule over chaos, you hoist your flags with no authority, and the heart that is still alive hates you, and the remnant of Mercy is ashamed to look at you. You decompose behind your flimsy armour, your stench alarms you, your panic strikes at love. The land is not yours, the land has been taken back, your shrines fall through empty air, your tablets are quickly revised, and you bow down in hell beside your hired torturers, and still you count your battalions and crank out your marching songs. Your righteous enemy is listening. He hears your anthem full of blood and vanity, and your children singing to themselves. He has overturned the vehicle of nationhood, he has spilled the precious cargo, and every nation he has taken back. Because you are swollen with your little time. Because you do not wrestle with your angel. Because you dare to live without God. Because your cowardice has led you to believe that the victor does not limp.”
Source: Book of Mercy
“Israel avslutar invasionen, kriget slutar - Palestina avslutar motståndet, Palestina upphör.”
Source: Bulletproof Backbone: Injustice Not Allowed on My Watch
“Israel beendet die Invasion, der Krieg endet – Palästina beendet den Widerstand, Palästina endet.”
Source: Bulletproof Backbone: Injustice Not Allowed on My Watch
“Israel being condemned by the EU, which 66 years ago watched with glee as its Jews were being mass murdered. That is pretty rich.”
“Israel believed (so Paul tells us, and he should know) that the purposes of the creator God all came down to this question: how is God going to rescue Israel? What the gospel of Jesus revealed, however, was that the purposes of God were reaching out to a different question: how is God going to rescue the world through Israel and thereby rescue Israel itself as part of the process but not as the point of it all? Maybe what we are faced with in our own day is a similar challenge: to focus not on the question of which human beings God is going to take to heaven and how he is going to do it but on the question of how God is going to redeem and renew his creation through human beings and how he is going to rescue those humans themselves as part of the process but not as the point of it all.”
Source: Surprised by Hope: Rethinking Heaven, the Resurrection, and the Mission of the Church
“Israel can make peace with an organization that seeks its destruction. That's Hamas. But Israel can make peace with the Palestinian Authority. It requires a lot of courage from both sides including President Mahmoud Abbas, the president of the Palestinian Authority.”
“Israel cannot afford to stand against the entire world and be denounced as the aggressor.”
“Israel cannot continue to exist in an atmosphere of peace and tranquillity without threats and aggression. If this regime stays on one inch of Palestine’s soil, it will continue its threats.”
“Israel controls the United States Senate.”
“Israel criticizes Hitler a lot, so do we, but they've done something very similar, even worse, than what the Nazis did.”
“Israel defined its God and its relation to that God in existential, relational terms. They did not, until quite late, approach the question of one God in an abstract philosophical way.”
“Israel demonstrated real hooliganism during the course of the recent operation, which I demanded.”
“Israel deserves America's friendship in reality - not just in rhetoric.”
“Israel detiene la invasión, la guerra terminará - Palestina detiene la resistencia, Palestina terminará.”
Source: Bulletproof Backbone: Injustice Not Allowed on My Watch
“Israel does not care about the international public opinion.”
“Israel does not respect the principles or purposes of the United Nations charter nor the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.”
“Israel does not target civilians. It targets the terrorists.”
“Israel ends invasion, war ends - Palestine ends resistance, Palestine ends.”
Source: Bulletproof Backbone: Injustice Not Allowed on My Watch
“Israel exists; it has a right to exist in peace behind secure and defensible borders; and it has a right to demand of its neighbors that they recognize those facts. I have personally followed and supported Israel's heroic struggle for survival, ever since the founding of the State of Israel 34 years ago. In the pre-1967 borders Israel was barely 10 miles wide at its narrowest point. The bulk of Israel's population lived within artillery range of hostile Arab armies. I am not about to ask Israel to live that way again.”
“Israel fights back, which is very much at odds with the Jewish instinct to discuss and deconstruct everything until action itself seems senseless.”
“Israel gets more than half of all the military purchasing assistance that America gives to all the nations in the world.”
“Israel had advanced beyond the Jim Crow South and segregated not just the pools and the fountains, but the water itself.”
Source: The Message
“Israel has a couple of hundred nuclear weapons and also chemical and biological weapons. This stockpile is not only a threat in itself but encourages others to proliferate in reaction and in self-defense. Is anybody saying anything about this?”
“Israel has a people's army and a draft and therefore they should be considered legitimate targets. They are part of the occupying power, and Palestinians consider them targets for suicide bombers as well as other means.”
“Israel has a sizeable nuclear arsenal and could retaliate if it were attacked.”
“Israel has always been and must always be America's strongest ally.”
“Israel has always been pro-American. Israel will always be pro-American.”
“Israel has an absolute right to exist - not only to exist - but to exist in a way that they're not under threat of terrorism.”
“Israel has an important principle: It is only Israel that is responsible for our security.”
Source: Yitzhak Rabin and Israeli national security: special memorial issue
“Israel has been extremely aggressive, they have continued with their settlement policies, they have continued demolitions, they have continued with their occupation policies which entail a humiliation of Palestinians, which makes the (peace) process difficult.”
“Israel has come out of the boils of the hell, a satanic state.”
“Israel has created a new image of the Jew in the world - the image of a working and an intellectual people, of a people that can fight with heroism.”
“Israel has done enormous amount of, for peace. I myself have done things that no prime minister previously had done.”
“Israel has gone mad. It's attacking, doing the same thing to the Palestinian and Lebanese people that they have criticised - and with reason - the Holocaust . But this is a new Holocaust.”
“Israel has hundreds of nukes, won’t sign the NPT, and faces no sanctions. Iran follows the rules, signs the NPT, allows inspections — and gets bombed. Welcome to the hypocrisy of the 'rules-based' international order.”
“Israel has incredible entrepreneurial spirit and a deep bench of technology talent.”
“Israel has its own right as a nation to defend its national security.”
“Israel has legitimate concerns about its security relative to Iran. I mean, you have a large country with a significant military that has proclaimed that Israel shouldn't exist, that has denied the Holocaust, that has financed Hezbollah, and as a consequence, there are missiles that are pointed towards Tel Aviv. There are very good reasons why Israelis are nervous about Iran's position in the world generally.”
“Israel has many hopes, and faces extreme dangers. The most prominent danger is Iran, which is making every effort to acquire nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles, and establishing an enormous terror network together with Syria in Lebanon.”
“Israel has military capabilities including nuclear weapons, far surpassing any other power in the Middle East, but it's a small country. The rest of the Middle Eastern peoples are Muslim and Israelis are not, so it is hardly in any position to become the leading power.”
“Israel has no better friend than America. And America has no better friend than Israel. We stand together to defend democracy. We stand together to advance peace. We stand together to fight terrorism.”
“Israel has obviously not liberated the Palestinians in Gaza or the West Bank. We have occupied them, but we have not liberated them.”