“I'm very proud to be the prime minister of all of Israel's citizens, Arabs and Jews alike.” ProudCitizensJewIsraelMinistersPrimePrime Minister Author:Benjamin Netanyahu
“Israel will not transfer Judea, Samaria, and the Gaza District to any foreign sovereign authority, [because] of the historic right of our nation to this land, [and] the needs of our national security, which demand a capability to defend our State and the lives of our citizens.” NeedsStatesNationsLandSecurityCitizensDemandAuthorityIsraelCapabilitySovereignNational SecurityHistoricTransfersGaza Author:Menachem Begin
“Israel is doing what any other country would do, and certainly the U.S. would do. If 80 percent of your population were under fire and you had 60 seconds or 90 seconds to get into bomb shelters, if terror tunnels were dug underneath your border in order to come in and explode your kindergartens and massacre your people and kidnap American citizens.” PeopleIfsCountryOrderFireCitizensPercentPopulationTerrorIsraelBordersBombsSecondsShelterOther CountriesTunnelsAmerican CitizensKindergartenMassacresBomb Shelters Author:Benjamin Netanyahu
“The security of the citizens of Israel, the future of the state of Israel, this is the Israeli governments responsibility.” StatesGovernmentResponsibilitySecurityCitizensIsraelIsraeli Author:Avigdor Lieberman
“You want a culture where citizens are free to express themselves and so live in the openness necessary to the functioning of a successful economy? Israel has a free press, much of it openly hostile to the parties in power.” WantCulturePartyEconomySuccessfulCitizensPressesIsraelOpennessHostileFree Press Author:John Podhoretz
“Big efforts should be made to integrate Israel's Arab citizens into the fabric of the Israeli society and the Israeli economy. That's really the key to any further progress to do with the Palestinians beyond Israel's borders.” ShouldMadeBigsEffortEconomyProgressKeysCitizensIsraelBordersPalestinianFabricIsraeliIntegrating Author:Moshe Arens
“I don't want to involve myself in the various arguments about why Israel was created . . . . . I want to deal with the situation at hand which is the ongoing killing on both sides. . . . . . . It's true that there's also much oppression of Palestinians in Arab countries, where Palestinians aren't allowed to vote or own property and are treated as second class citizens and pawns in the fight against Israel. But I'm not going to spend my time on this since there is isn't a whole lot I can do about it.” WantI CanCountryWholeHandsFightingSidesCan DoDealsSituationClassCitizensArgumentVotePropertyKillingVariousIsraelTreatedOppressionMy TimePalestinianBoth SidesOngoingPawnsSecond Class Citizens Author:Michael Moore
“It is very difficult to be a non-religious Jew outside Israel. The synagogue keeps Jews together in the Diaspora. In Israel, you are a Jew from morning to night. We don't even have to think about it, just as a Dutch citizen doesn't spend his whole day thinking about the fact that he is a Dutch citizen. It's a given.” ThinkingWholeFactsTogetherNightGivenDifficultReligiousMorningCitizensJewIsraelDutchDiasporaSynagogueNon Religious Author:Tommy Lapid
“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.” IfsShouldStatesAmericaRiskCitizensAskingIsraelAlliesEstablishmentPalestinianHostile Author:Adam Hasner
“In order to restore security for Israeli citizens, every home, mother and child in Israel, and to establish a stable and strong government that will unite the nation...I hereby declare my candidacy.” ChildrenHomeGovernmentMotherOrderStrongNationsPartySecurityCitizensIsraelStableIsraeliMother And ChildCandidacyStrong Government Author:Benjamin Netanyahu
“I'm not Israeli and because I'm not a citizen, it doesn't matter how often I go there - I'm still not Israeli. There's this way I feel so close to so many people there, but I always feel like I'm staring through the glass. And in a way, having this really thin piece of glass between me and this place is incredibly useful for me as a writer, because I'm just so hyper-aware of it. I could take a walk in San Francisco and probably notice a third of the things that I would notice in Israel, because I'm just attuned to everything when I'm there.” PeopleWayFeelsStillsMatterWalksPiecesCitizensThirdsGlassesIsraelStaringSan FranciscoIsraeliHyper Author:Molly Antopol
“Take a young man from Gaza living in the most horrendous conditions - most of it imposed by Israel - who straps dynamite around himself and then throws himself into a crowd of Israelis. I've never condoned or agreed with it, but at least it is understandable as the desperate wish of a human being who feels himself being crowded out of life and all of his surroundings, who sees his fellow citizens, other Palestinians, his parents, sisters, and brothers, suffering, being injured, or being killed. He wants to do something, to strike back.” MenWantFeelsHumansYoungSufferingWishParentHuman BeingsConditionsBrotherCitizensFellowsCrowdsIsraelStrikesYoung ManDesperatePalestinianBrothers And SistersSurroundingsInjuredCrowdedGazaDynamiteStrike Back Author:Edward Said
“I couldn't lie anymore to my kids telling them that they are equal citizens in the state of Israel. They cannot be equal because in order to fit in and to be accepted and to be a citizen in Israel, you need a Jewish mother. So basically what I'm trying to tell my kids is just, it's their mother's fault and it's not my fault.” NeedsTryingStatesKidsLyingMotherOrderCitizensFitEqualFaultsIsraelAcceptedJewish Mother Author:Sayed Kashua
“I want to tell you that Israel is a democracy and every citizen is automatically registered to vote. There's a commitment in our declaration of independence, guaranteed under Israel's law, that all our citizens, Arab and Jews, alike, have the right to vote.” WantLawDemocracyCitizensCommitmentVoteIndependenceJewIsraelDeclarationDeclaration Of IndependenceRight To Vote Author:Benjamin Netanyahu
“I certainly will make sure that everybody understands that I'm the prime minister of all of Israel's citizens, and I really believe that. It's something that my actions have shown. It's not a question of fence-mending, it's a question of real belief, and it's there. I don't have to fabricate it.” BelieveRealActionBeliefCitizensIsraelMinistersPrimeFencePrime MinisterMendingFabricate Author:Benjamin Netanyahu
“90 percent, 85 to 90 percent of Israeli citizens in Judea-Samaria, in the West Bank, live in clusters, in urban blocks. Everybody understands that if we were to have a solution then those blocks would stay in Israel. And that's where you saw these cranes; that's where Israelis live. In the Jewish neighborhoods of Jerusalem, everybody understands, they will stay.” IfsSawsCitizensSolutionsPercentWestIsraelBlockNeighborhoodUrbanIsraeliJerusalemClustersCranes Author:Benjamin Netanyahu
“I do situate myself in this problem of being a Jew who doesn't want to be represented by the state of Israel, a state that claims to represent all Jewish people and make me into a potential citizen.” PeopleWantStatesProblemCitizensClaimsJewIsrael Author:Judith Butler
“It is manifestly idiotic to believe that Israel, with five million Jewish citizens and one million Arab citizens, will concede to the return of four million refugees. It will not happen. We can wish it, we can think it's just, that it's moral - it will not happen. No country commits suicide.” ThinkingBelieveCountryHappensWishMoralMillionsFiveFourReturnCitizensSuicideIsraelCommitRefugeeIdiotic Author:Uri Avnery
“I don't want to govern the Palestinians. I don't want them as subjects of Israel or as citizens of Israel. I want them to have their own independent state but a demilitarized state.” WantStatesSubjectsCitizensIndependentIsraelPalestinian Author:Benjamin Netanyahu
“My heart goes out to the brave citizens of Syria, who each day risk and even sacrifice their lives to achieve freedom from a murderous regime. We in Israel welcome the historic struggle to forge democratic, peace-loving governments in our region.” HeartGovernmentStruggleRiskSacrificeAchieveCitizensMy HeartBraveDemocraticIsraelWelcomeEach DayRegionsRegimesSyriaHistoric Author:Shimon Peres
“But there's one thing we are not going to compromise at all: when it comes to security of Israeli citizens and the State of Israel, there are not going to be any compromises - not now and not in the future.” StatesOne ThingSecurityCitizensIsraelCompromiseIsraeli Author:Ariel Sharon
“Legitimate steps of self-defence which Israel takes in its war against Palestinian terror - actions which any sovereign state is obligated to undertake to ensure the security of its citizens - are presented by those who hate Israel as aggressive, Nazi-like steps.” WarSelfStatesActionHateStepsSecurityCitizensTerrorIsraelAggressivePalestinianNaziSovereignDefenceSelf Defence Author:Ariel Sharon
“Peace should provide security. It should be durable. I'm ready to go far in making painful concessions. But there is one thing I will never make any concessions on and that's the security of the Israeli citizens and the very existence of the state of Israel. The Palestinians are losing time.” ShouldStatesExistenceOne ThingSecurityReadyCitizensLosingPainfulIsraelPalestinianIsraeliConcessionsLosing Time Author:Ariel Sharon
“To the citizens of Israel, I say: We have passed difficult years, faced the most painful experiences and overcome them. The future lies before us. We are required to take difficult and controversial steps, but we must not miss the opportunity to try to achieve what we have wished for, for so many years: security, tranquillity and peace.” TryingYearsLyingOpportunityDifficultStepsAchieveSecurityMissingCitizensPainfulIsraelControversialTranquillityPainful Experiences Author:Ariel Sharon