“The Arab-Israeli conflict is the biggest problem, but small problems shape the daily lives of Israelis. Unless there happens to be a war going on, the Arab-Israeli conflict is irrelevant in daily life.” WarProblemHappensShapesConflictDaily LifeIrrelevantIsraeliArab Israeli ConflictSmall Problems Author:Yair Lapid
“What I, as the prime minister of the present government of Israel, started to do, is first to tackle the longest part of the Arab-Israeli conflict, the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.” FirstsGovernmentConflictIsraelMinistersPrimePalestinianPrime MinisterIsraeliArab Israeli Conflict Author:Yitzhak Rabin
“It was tricky [to write about Israelis], because everyone has an opinion about the Arab - Israeli conflict, and when I first started writing these stories, I was working for an Arab - Israeli human rights group. It was during the Second Intifada. It was this totally violent and intense time, and I think there's a part of me where I don't know how to write about that situation without getting my politics out of my messages, and that's something that was important for me not to do in this book.” ThinkingKnowsWritingFirstsHumansImportantBookStoriesSituationOpinionKnow HowRightsGroupsConflictMessagesHuman RightsViolentIntenseIsraeliTrickyArab Israeli Conflict Author:Molly Antopol
“The idea that the rest of the world was somehow being held hostage by the Arab-Israeli conflict once had a minimal basis in reality. In the first 20 years of Israel's existence, every Arab country was in an active state of war with the Jewish state.” WorldYearsFirstsIdeasWarCountryStatesRealityExistenceConflictBasesIsraelActiveIsraeliHostageArab Israeli Conflict Author:John Podhoretz
“The Arab-Israeli conflict is also in many ways a conflict about status: it's a war between two peoples who feel deeply humiliated by the other, who want the other to respect them. Battles over status can be even more intractable than those over land or water or oil.” WayWantFeelsTwoWarWaterLandBattleConflictOilHumiliationIsraeliHumiliatedArab Israeli Conflict Author:Alain de Botton