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“The immemorial ingratitude of rulers and commonwealths is proverbial. Especially common is ingratitude to Israel - the People that has achieved so much of eternal worth, but has rarely succeeded in winning gratitude.”

People Winning Common Gratitude Eternal Israel Rulers Commonwealth Ingratitude Proverbial

Book:Ḥamishah ḥumshe Torah ʻim haftarot

Source: Ḥamishah ḥumshe Torah ʻim haftarot

“To Israel's faithful hosts in the past, as to its loyal sons and daughters of the present, the Siddur has been the gate to communion with their Father in Heaven; and, at the same time, it has been a mighty spiritual bond that unites them to their scattered brethren the world over.”

World Has Beens Past Spiritual Father Heaven Son Daughter Israel Faithful Gates Host Loyal Communion Brethren Son And Daughter Father In Heaven

Author:Joseph Hertz

“Life is a frail and transitory thing, but it has been given a higher purpose and dignity through the revelation of God's Teaching to Israel, and the resulting dedication of an entire people to God's service.”

People Has Beens Life Is Purpose Given Teaching Higher Dignity Israel Revelations Dedication Frail Transitory Higher Purpose

Author:Joseph Hertz

“I was born Jewish and so I remain, even if that's unacceptable for many. For me, the vocation of Israel is bringing light to the goyim. That's my hope and I believe that Christianity is the means for achieving it.”

Ifs Believe Mean Light I Believe Born Christianity Achieve Israel Vocation Goyim

Author:Jean-Marie Lustiger

“In ancient Israel and Rome the judge had appeared as a stand-in for the divine, and corruption was a blinding of the representative of the divine.”

Divine Judging Ancient Israel Corruption Rome Representatives

Author:Peggy Noonan

“[About the diaspora] Canaan is too small for God's children. The Land of Israel will spread through all lands!”

Children Land Israel Spread Diaspora

Author:I. L. Peretz

“Everyone I knew, including my new friends in Jordan, expressed horror at the realities of the Holocaust. But they resented, as I was growing to, how Arabs were cast as the aggressors in the dispute between Israel and the Arab countries, when it was their land that had been seized to resolve a European political problem.”

Country Problem Reality Political Growing Land Horror Including Casts Israel Resolve Holocaust Middle East Disputes Jordan New Friends Aggressors

Author:Queen Noor of Jordan

“Rome is the Great Beast of atheism and materialism, adoring nothing but itself. Israel is the Great Beast of religion. Neither one nor the other is likable. The Great Beast is always repulsive”

Atheism Israel Beast Materialism Rome

Book:Gravity and Grace

Source: Gravity and Grace

“From the U.S. point of view, negotiations are, in effect, a way for Israel to continue its policies of systematically taking over whatever it wants in the West Bank, maintaining the brutal siege on Gaza, separating Gaza from the West Bank and, of course, occupying the Syrian Golan heights, all with full U.S. support.”

Way Want Courses Views Support Effects Policy West Israel Point Of View Height Brutal Negotiation Maintaining Gaza Separating Siege

Author:Noam Chomsky

“As someone who was born in Israel, you're put in a position of defending Israel because you know how much is at stake.”

Knows Born Know How Position Israel Stakes

Author:Natalie Portman

“I think there are hard-liners inside of Iran that think it is the right thing to do to oppose us, to seek to destroy Israel, to cause havoc in places like Syria or Yemen or Lebanon, if they don't change at all, we're still better off having the deal.”

Ifs Thinking Stills Hard Causes Change Deals Israel Things To Do Right Thing Iran Syria Better Off Don't Change Lebanon Havoc Yemen

Author:Barack Obama

“The notion that we would condition Iran not getting nuclear weapons in a verifiable deal on Iran recognizing Israel is really akin to saying that we won't sign a deal unless the nature of the Iranian regime completely transforms. And that is, I think, a fundamental misjudgment.”

Thinking Nature Deals Conditions Weapons Fundamentals Notion Israel Nuclear Iran Regimes Nuclear Weapons Recognizing Iranian

Author:Barack Obama

“America's strong bonds with Israel are well known - this bond is unbreakable.”

Wells America Strong Known Israel Well Known Unbreakable Strong Bond

Author:Barack Obama

“The Holocaust may belong to history, but it was the price we paid to become a nation. Auschwitz was like a cradle of death that enabled future generations of Israelis to live.”

May Nations Generations Paid Israel Holocaust Future Generation Cradle Auschwitz

Author:Noa Ben Artzi-Pelossof

“I will never let Israel down.”

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Author:William J. Clinton

“Israel will not discuss a peace involving the concession of any piece of territory. The neighboring states do not deserve an inch of Israel's land. . . . We are ready for exchange for peace.”

States Peace Pieces Land Ready Deserve Israel Territory Inches Involving Concessions

Author:David Ben-Gurion

“If people become ecstatic the whole society will have to change, because this society is based on misery. If people are blissful you cannot lead them to war -- to Vietnam, or to Egypt, or to Israel. No. Someone who is blissful will just laugh and say: This is nonsense!”

People Ifs War Whole Change Laughing Misery Israel Nonsense Vietnam Egypt Ecstatic This Society

Author:Rajneesh

“I unequivocally condemn the striking of the soldier from the Ethiopian community and those responsible will be brought to justice but nobody has the right to take the law into their own hands, immigrants from Ethiopia and their families are dear to us and Israel is making great efforts to ease their integration in society.”

Hands Law Community Justice Effort Responsible Soldier Dear Israel Ease Immigrants Integration Ethiopia Great Effort

Author:Benjamin Netanyahu

“I know that Israel does not stand alone. I know that America stands with Israel.”

Knows Doe America Israel Stand Alone

Author:Benjamin Netanyahu

“I don't think Israel's becoming more religious, I think its politics is becoming more religious. There's a difference.”

Thinking Politics Differences Religious Becoming Israel Becoming More

Author:Yair Lapid

“Israel is in the midst of a difficult military and diplomatic campaign against terrorists. An organisation that works to prove allegations that Israel is committing war crimes should be so good as to do so with its own resources and not with civilian national service volunteers and state funds.”

Should War States Difficult Military Crime Prove Resources Israel Campaigns Terrorist Fund Midst Volunteer Civilians Organisation Diplomatic War Crimes Allegations National Service

Author:Uri Orbach

“This decree is very serious and we will not allow it to pass unopposed. (on Israel offers 10-month West Bank settlement freeze)”

Serious Months Offers West Israel Freeze Settlement Decree

Author:Uri Orbach

“This is entertainment, not Judaism, I think the general public will celebrate this, but the religious public will be indifferent. (on Madonna's visit to Israel)”

Thinking Religious Entertainment Israel Celebrate Indifferent Judaism General Public

Author:Uri Orbach

“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.”

Has Beens Peace Process Difficult Policy Israel Occupation Aggressive Palestinian Humiliation Settlement Demolition

Author:Margot Wallstrom

“There won't be a Palestinian state within Israel.”

States Israel Palestinian

Author:Naftali Bennett

“The history of Israel is divided into two parts. One, under attack that we have had to defend ourselves. When you defend yourself your thinking is totally different from when you want to make peace. So under attack you behave like if you want a hawk, when peace comes you become a dove.”

Ifs Thinking Want Two Different Israel Behave Divided Dove Making Peace Hawks

Author:Shimon Peres

“Palestinians are becoming religiously fanatic. Israel is becoming irrelevant. They do it for religious purpose, fanatic, they want to conquer the Middle East under the command of the Iranians.”

Want Purpose Religious Middle Becoming Israel East Command Conquer Middle East Palestinian Irrelevant Fanatics

Author:Shimon Peres

“[Ben Carson] critics say that your inexperience shows. You've suggested that the Baltic States are not a part of NATO, you were unfamiliar with the major political parties and government in Israel, and domestically, you thought Alan Greenspan had been treasury secretary instead of federal reserve chair.”

States Shows Government Political Party Majors Critics Israel Chairs Reserves Secretary Political Parties Unfamiliar Nato Treasury Federal Reserve Inexperience Ben Carson

Author:Megyn Kelly

“What the Iranians have said is, "we will wipe Israel off the face of the map, and we will bring death to America." When someone points a gun at your head and loads it, by God, you ought to take them seriously, and we need to take that seriously.”

Needs Said America Faces Ought Gun Israel Maps Load Wipe

Author:Mike Huckabee

“We turned our back on Israel, our ally. You know, and a situation like that, of course [Barack]Obama's not going to be able to do anything. I would shore up our military first, because if you don't get the military right, nothing else is going to work.”

Ifs Knows Firsts Able Courses Situation Military Israel Barack Shore Allies Going To Work

Author:Benjamin Carson

“I still say exactly what my original opinion is. Do you borrow money from China to send it to anyone? Out of your surplus, you can help your allies, and Israel is a great ally. And this is no particular animus of Israel, but what I will say, and I will say over and over again, we cannot give away money we don't have.”

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Author:Rand Paul

“I don't disagree with Senator Paul's position that we shouldn't be funding our enemies. But I absolutely believe that Israel is a priority to be able to fund and keep them strong and safe after eight years of this administration.”

Years Believe Able Strong Enemy Position Safe Israel Eight Priorities Administration Fund Disagree Senators Funding

Author:Chris Christie

“In the long term, Israel's security rests on only one pillar: the Palestinians' acceptance of the country. It isn't the atom bomb that makes Israel secure.”

Long Country Term Security Acceptance Israel Secure Long Term Bombs Atoms Palestinian Pillars Atom Bomb

Author:Daniel Barenboim

“Germany will never be a real, free thinking and free feeling friend of Israel, because it will always fall under this shadow.”

Thinking Real Feelings Fall Shadow Israel Germany Free Thinking

Author: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.”

Israel Establishment Holocaust Palestine Anti Semitism Partition

Author:Daniel Barenboim

“There are probably many people in Israel who believe that Wagner, who died in 1883, lived in Berlin in 1942 and was friends with Hitler.”

People Believe Died Israel Berlin Wagner

Author:Daniel Barenboim

“Israel's strategy cannot be to constantly confront the Palestinians with the history of the Holocaust, but instead to show them that Israel is a reality.”

Shows Reality Strategy Israel Holocaust Palestinian

Author:Daniel Barenboim

“In a place like Israel, they're very concerned with Iran, so there's a lot of interest. So they want to see what this Iranian from France has to say in her comics. I guess that's good. My the books are coming out in other countries. And each time, they discover something different to be interested in.”

Want Book Different Country Interest Concerned Israel France Iran Coming Out Other Countries Iranian

Author:Marjane Satrapi

“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.”

Should Made Bigs Effort Economy Progress Keys Citizens Israel Borders Palestinian Fabric Israeli Integrating

Author:Moshe Arens

“Gaza is such a tremendous humanitarian problem, it's way beyond Israel's capability to do anything significant about. It's a world problem, but the world doesn't want to do anything about it. That the world has packed them like sardines in a tiny piece of territory run by a fanatic Islamic group, run by a fanatic group like Hamas. Unless the world decides it wants to tackle this problem, that they want to deal with refugees there, prepare to absorb some of the refugees.”

World Way Want Problem Running Deals Pieces Groups Israel Humanitarian Tiny Significant Islamic Territory Capability Refugee Fanatics Gaza Hamas World Problems Sardines

Author:Moshe Arens

“Well I haven't seen any free elections in the Arab world. They may be coming someday, except for in Israel. In Israel, Arabs have a chance to participate in free elections. Nowhere else really.”

World Wells May Chance Havens Election Israel Someday Arab World Free Elections

Author:Moshe Arens

“On a crowded bus in Israel, a mother was speaking to her son in Yiddish. An Israeli woman reprimanded her. "You should be speaking Hebrew. Why are you talking to him in Yiddish?" The mother answered, "I don't want he should forget he's a Jew."”

Want Should Humor Funny Mother Forget Talking Son Jew Israel Bus Israeli Crowded Hebrew Yiddish Talking To Him

Author:Kirk Douglas

“I will insist that the Hebrews have done more to civilize man than any other nation.”

Men Done Nations Israel Presidential Hebrew Jewish National

Author:John Adams

“The poor and needy search for water, but there is none; their tongues are parched with thirst. But I the LORD will answer them; I, the God of Israel, will not forsake them. I will make rivers flow on barren heights, and springs within the valleys. I will turn the desert into pools of water, and the parched ground into springs.”

Turns Water Answers Poor Lord Spring Flow Rivers Israel Tongue Desert Height Valleys Pool Thirst Needy Barren Forsake

Author:Isaiah

“There is no truth which the prophets press more steadily upon Israel than that all their national life lies in the sight and on the care of God.”

Care Lying Sight Presses Israel Prophet God Life

Author:George A. Smith

“The question is no longer whether the United States should contribute to assuring Israel's survival and prosperity; that goes without saying.”

Should States America United United States Survival Prosperity Israel

Author:George Ball

“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.”

“A number of people who have supported me on the border fence in the U.S. have observed the fences in Israel and their effectiveness.”

People Numbers Israel Borders Fence Effectiveness

Author:Duncan Hunter

“Not only must Americans admire Israel, there can be no doubt that we have an interest in, and special responsibility for, that valiant nation.”

Nations Interest Responsibility Doubt Special Israel Admire No Doubt Valiant

Author:George Ball

“It's all part of the same ball of wax, right? The oil companies, Israel, Halliburton.”

Politics Company Balls Israel Oil Oil Companies

Author:Michael Moore

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