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“New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie is going to Israel. He's going to be pretty disappointed when he finds out the Gaza Strip isn't a steak.”

Israel Disappointed Jersey New Jersey Steak Gaza Christie Gaza Strip

Author:Jimmy Fallon

“Those whom God calls to such a ministry - and a call is essential - must be prepared for a pathway of unpopularity and misunderstanding. "You troubler of Israel" was the way Ahab addressed Elijah.”

Way Essentials Prepared Israel Ministry Be Prepared Misunderstanding Pathways Elijah Ahab

Author:Arthur Wallis

“It is a sin against God not to pray for the Israel of God, especially for those of them that are under our charge. Good men are afraid of the guilt of omissions ( I Samuel 12).”

Men Sin Praying Guilt Israel Good Man Omission

Book:An exposition of all the books of the Old and New Testaments: ...: Wherein each chapter is summed up in its contents: the sacred text inserted at large in distinct paragraphs ... largely illustrated with practical remarks and observations

Source: An exposition of all the books of the Old and New Testaments: ...: Wherein each chapter is summed up in its contents: the sacred text inserted at large in distinct paragraphs ... largely illustrated with practical remarks and observations

“Israel is a colonialist-imperialist phenomenon. There is no such thing as an Israeli people. Before 1948, world geography knew of no state such as Israel. Israel is the result of an invasion, of aggression.”

People World States Results Israel Phenomenon Aggression Invasion Israeli Geography

Author:Muammar al-Gaddafi

“My closest friends from Israel make fun of me for becoming an American, and my American friends make fun of how Israeli I am... I can't win.”

I Can Winning Fun Becoming Israel Closest Israeli Can't Win Closest Friends

Author:Alona Tal

“A lot of movies that come from Israel are about war, but there is such good, funny, rounded writing that comes from the country that I wish more people would discover.”

People Writing War Country Wish Israel Good Fun

Author:Odeya Rush

“The one thing that I'm absolutely sure about is that the people of Gaza aren't going anywhere. And neither are the people of Israel.”

People One Thing Israel Gaza

Author:Ross Kemp

“I think Iran is a very dangerous country - very dangerous to Israel, to the Middle East, and also to the United States. They export terrorism. And they also have the ability to manufacture rockets and missiles.”

Thinking Country States Ability United United States Middle Dangerous Israel Terrorism East Iran Middle East Rockets Missiles

Author:Dutch Ruppersberger

“You know the Ark of Israel and the calf of Belial were both made of gold. Religion has never yet changed the metal of her one adoration.”

Knows Made Changed Gold Israel Metals Adoration Ark Calves Belial

Author:Ouida

“The nations which have put mankind and posterity most in their debt have been small states Israel, Athens, Florence, Elizabethan England.”

Has Beens States Nations Mankind England Israel Debt Minorities Posterity Athens Florence Elizabethan

Author:Bill Vaughan

“Israel itself is the strongest guarantee against another Holocaust.”

Israel Guarantees Strongest Holocaust

Author:Golda Meir

“Israel's economic and cultural progress is due to three things: the pioneering spirit that inspires the best of our immigrant and Israeli youth, who respond to the challenge of our desolute areas and the ingathering of the exiles; the feeling of Diaspora Jewry that they are partners in the enterprise of Israel's resurgence in the ancient homeland of the Jewish people; and the power of science, and technology which Israel unceasingly, and not without success, tries to enhance.”

“The State of Israel will prove itself not by material wealth, not by military might or technical achievement, but by its moral character and human values.”

Humans States Character Might Values Wealth Moral Military Materials Prove Achievement Israel Prove It Human Values Moral Character Material Wealth

Author:David Ben-Gurion

“No nation in the world has so many drastic problems squeezed into so small a space, under such urgent pressure of time and heavy burden of history, as Israel.”

World Problem Nations Space Pressure Israel Burden Heavy Urgent Drastic Heavy Burdens

Author:Barbara Tuchman

“It is not enough for a man to dwell in the Land of Israel, he must also pray to be free.”

Men Enough Land Praying Israel

Author:Shmuel Yosef Agnon

“It is my considered opinion that the State of Israel is a racist state in the full meaning of this term: In this state people are discriminated against, in the most permanent and legal way and in the most important areas of life, only because of their origin. This racist discrimination began in Zionism and is carried out today mainly in co-operation with the institutions of the Zionist movement.”

People Way Important States Today Term Opinion Movement Areas Institutions Israel Discrimination Permanent Operations Racist Zionist Zionism

Author:Israel Shahak

“No amount of money given in charity, nothing but the abandonment of this hateful trade, can atone for this great sin against God, Israel and Humanity.”

Humanity Given Sin Amount Trade Charity Israel Abandonment Hateful

Author:Hermann Adler

“One can criticize the Israeli government, but it is not fair to judge the people of Israel.”

People Government Judging Fairs Israel Criticize Israeli Not Fair

Author:Antonio Munoz Molina

“I have absolute respect for Israel and people in Israel who are critical of their own country.”

People Country Absolutes Israel Critical

Author:Antonio Munoz Molina

“Those who adhere to the ideology of rejecting Israel’s right to exist, they might as well reject the earth beneath them or the sky above, because Israel is not going anywhere.”

Wells Might Earth Sky Israel Ideology Rejects Rejecting

Author:Barack Obama

“There's a phrase you hear in Israel: "We're not Jews, we're Israelis." What that means is that the stereotype we're familiar with here in the States of the Diaspora Jew, i.e. Jews in America or Europe or Russia, etc. does not fit at all with the reality of the homegrown "sabras" of Israel.”

Mean Doe States Reality America Fit Europe Jew Israel Russia Familiar Phrases Etc Stereotype Diaspora Homegrown

Author:Steven Pressfield

“The Israeli lobby has clout in the U.S., which means that re-arranging the region and controlling its resources one way or another, will serve Israel through its control over the American administration.”

Way Mean Resources Israel One Way Administration Regions Israeli Arranging Clout

Author:Bashar al-Assad

“I feel ashamed that the new, nuclear, neo-liberal India thinks of itself as a 'natural ally' of Israel. Ever since India began to call itself an emerging superpower, it has become a slavish, groveling satellite state of the US.”

Thinking Feels States Natural India Israel Nuclear Ashamed Allies Emerging Superpower Satellites Groveling

Author:Arundhati Roy

“None of us and none of the Arabs trust Israel.”

Author:Bashar al-Assad

“The American administration is trying to achieve any gain in the shadow of the embarrassment hitting it because of its failures in Iraq, Afghanistan and Palestine after the failure of Israel's war on Lebanon and the retreat of America's project in the region.”

Trying War America Achieve Projects Shadow Gains Iraq Israel Administration Regions Afghanistan Hitting Retreat Palestine Embarrassment Lebanon

Author:Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah

“You should make the world understand that Israel is the oppressor and that Israel must be destroyed.”

World Should Israel Destroyed Oppressors

Author:Ali Meshkini

“I prophesy in the name of the Lord God of Israel, unless the United States redress the wrongs committed upon the Saints in the state of Missouri and punish the crimes committed by her officers that in a few years the government will be utterly overthrown and wasted, and there will not be so much as a potsherd left . . .”

Years States Government Names Left United Lord United States Crime Saint Committed Israel Officers Missouri Lord God Redress

Author:Joseph Smith, Jr.

“As the profoundest philosophy of ancient Rome and Greece lighted her taper at Israel's altar, so the sweetest strains of the pagan muse were swept from harps attuned on Zion's hill.”

Philosophy Bible Ancient Israel Hills Rome Muse Strain Greece Altars Sweetest Pagan Harps Ancient Rome Zion

Book:Essays, moral and religious

Source: Essays, moral and religious

“Sharona Muir has written a gripping personal memoir about her odyssey to rediscover and reclaim her father. Along the way she uncovers some hard truths about the heroic founders of Israel and the Beginnings of Israeli science. The Book of Telling keeps in all the fears and resentments and consolations and warmth of such a process-at once her own story and the tale of a nation.”

Way Book Hard Stories Father Nations Process Written Israel Tales Memoir Warmth Heroic Resentment Founders Consolation Israeli Gripping Odyssey Hard Truths

Author:Edmund White

“the life of Jesus recapitulates key elements in the earlier story of Israel. For a moment, as Jesus stands on the mountain giving the famous sermon, he is Moses. For a moment, answering his critics about his actions on the sabbath, he is David. For a moment, as he calls and names the twelve disciples, he is perhaps Jacob, bringing the twelve patriarchs into the world. For a moment, healing the sick and raising the dead, he is Elijah or Elisha. And so on. In the transfiguration he actually meets Moses and Elijah.”

World Giving Moments Stories Action Jesus Names Healing Keys Mountain Elements Sick Critics Israel Twelve Disciple Sermons Moses Sabbath Jacob Elijah Transfiguration Healing The Sick

Author:N. T. Wright

“To subdivide this land into two unstable, insecure nations, to try to defend what is indefensible, is to invite disaster. Carving Judea and Samaria out of Israel means carving up Israel.”

Trying Mean Two Nations Land Israel Disaster Invites Insecure Unstable Carving

Author:Benjamin Netanyahu

“I think that anyone who moves to establish a Palestinian state and evacuate territory gives territory away to radical Islamist attacks against Israel.”

Thinking Giving States Moving Israel Radical Territory Palestinian Islamists

Author:Benjamin Netanyahu

“If there will be a serious Palestinian prime minister who makes a 100 percent effort to end terrorism, then we can have peace. Each side has to take steps. If terror continues, there will not be an independent Palestinian state. Israel will not accept it, if terror continues.”

Ifs Ends States Sides Effort Accepting Steps Serious Percent Independent Terror Israel Terrorism Ministers Prime Palestinian Prime Minister

Author:Ariel Sharon

“The security of the citizens of Israel, the future of the state of Israel, this is the Israeli governments responsibility.”

States Government Responsibility Security Citizens Israel Israeli

Author:Avigdor Lieberman

“Since Israel is a democratic state surrounded by essentially undemocratic states which have sworn her destruction, those interested in democracy everywhere must support Israel's existence.”

States Existence Support Democracy Destruction Democratic Israel

Author:Bayard Rustin

“The God of Israel is sometimes a God who hides Himself, but never a God who absents Himself; sometimes in the dark, but never at a distance.”

Sometimes Dark Distance Israel

Author:Matthew Henry

“Osama bin Laden, the person, more likely serves the function of a stand-in. Compare the new terrorists with partisans or conventional terrorists in Israel. These people often fight in a decentralized manner in small, autonomous units, too.”

People Persons Fighting Function Israel Terrorist Compare Conventional Units Bin Laden Partisans Osama Bin Laden Autonomous

Author:Jurgen Habermas

“The Land of Israel needs a People and the People of Israel needs a Land.”

People Needs Land Israel

Author:Israel Zangwill

“As Prime Minister Netanyahu and Defense Minister Barak have repeatedly said, the intelligence and security relationship between the United States and Israel at present is unprecedented. It has never been stronger.”

Said States United United States Security Stronger Israel Defense Ministers Prime Prime Minister Unprecedented

Author:Susan Rice

“Instead of a president who boycotts Prime Minister Netanyahu, imagine a president who stands unapologetically with the nation of Israel.”

Nations President Imagine Israel Ministers Prime Prime Minister Boycott

Author:Ted Cruz

“At the United Nations, a lynch mob for Israel is always just a moment away.”

Moments Nations United Israel United Nations

Author:Elliott Abrams

“Israel's flexibility is dependent on its sense of security.”

Security Israel Dependent Flexibility

Author:Elliott Abrams

“Hamas says in its charter they want to see a world without Israel. They want to obliterate Israel.”

World Want Israel Charter Hamas

Author:Ileana Ros-Lehtinen

“Israel of the coastal plain, where eight out of ten Israeli Jews live far removed from the occupied territories, from the fiery Jerusalem, from the religious and nationalistic conflicts, is unknown to the outside world, almost unknown to itself.”

World Religious Ten Conflict Jew Israel Eight Territory Israeli Jerusalem Outside World Fiery Coastal Nationalistic

Author:Amos Oz

“I don't think a wise thing at this moment is for Israel to launch a military attack on Iran.”

Thinking Moments Wise Military Israel Iran

Author:William Hague

“We [Israel people] always blame Moses, that he was our greatest leader and one of the most gifted people in the world. He brought us the moral code and so on, belief in one God, but then he was a bad navigator. He brought us to the only part of the Middle East without any gas, without any oil.”

People World Belief Leader Moral Middle Blame Israel Oil East Code Gas Middle East Gifted Moses Moral Code Navigators

Author:Benjamin Netanyahu

“The entire world is focusing on the compromises that are necessary from Israel's side. But people [in the world] are not focusing on the fact that the Palestinians refuse to make the necessary compromises that are required on their side for peace.”

People World Facts Sides Refuse Israel Compromise Palestinian

Author:Benjamin Netanyahu

“The Palestinian society is split into two - those who are openly calling for Israel's destruction like Hamas, and those who are not calling openly for Israel's destruction but refuse to confront those who do. And that's the Palestinian authority. I think they're timid, they're afraid to actually stand up to these killers. And I think that they're afraid, maybe for their own sake, for their own political hides, sometimes for their own physical safety. And they don't take that necessary plunge.”

Two Sometimes Political Calling Destruction Safety Sake Refuse Israel Killers Splits Palestinian Plunge Hamas

Author:Benjamin Netanyahu

“The instability in the region is not a result of Israel and the Palestinians. That was never the cause of this instability. Instead, the disfunctionality of many of these societies that have failed to modernize.”

Causes Results Israel Regions Palestinian Instability

Author:Benjamin Netanyahu

“There is a structural difference between the way that Europe views Israel, and America views Israel. The European view is informed by the importance of colonialism in Europe's past. So for Europeans we are like Belgiums in the Congo, or the French in Alger, or the British in India. Strange interlopers in somebody else's land. But in fact, we [Israeli] have been here for 4,000 years. This is our ancestral homeland.”

Way Years Has Beens Facts America Past Differences Views Land Strange Europe India Importance Israel British Colonialism Israeli Homeland Congo

Author:Benjamin Netanyahu