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“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.”

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Author:Shimon Peres

“It is time to change our policy of appeasement toward the Palestinians, to strengthen our ties with the nation of Israel.”

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Author:Rick Perry

“I feel like the history between Israel and Palestine has a lot in common with the history between India and Pakistan.”

Feels Common India Israel Pakistan Palestine India And Pakistan

Author:Freida Pinto

“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.”

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Author:John Podhoretz

“You want a political culture that works to create conditions under which an economy can thrive? Since signing the Oslo Accords with the Palestinians, Israel has spent two decades working to unshackle its economy from its socialist roots, with remarkable results.”

Want Two Political Culture Results Economy Conditions Roots Israel Decades Thrive Remarkable Palestinian Socialist Accord Signing Political Culture Oslo

Author:John Podhoretz

“You know, I get much more Jewish in Israel because I like the way that religion is done there.”

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Author:Natalie Portman

“Our Christian conviction is that Christ is also the messiah of Israel. Certainly it is in the hands of God how and when the unification of Jews and Christians into the people of God will take place.”

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Author:Pope Benedict XVI

“Israel is no longer a people that dwells alone, and has to join the global journey toward peace, reconciliation and international cooperation.”

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Book:Yitzhak Rabin and Israeli national security: special memorial issue

Source: Yitzhak Rabin and Israeli national security: special memorial issue

“While criticism of Israel is legitimate and justifiable, it cannot be an excuse - in any way, shape or form - for anti-Semitism.”

Way Form Shapes Criticism Excuse Israel Anti Semitism

Author:Tariq Ramadan

“I am a supporter of the state of Israel.”

States Israel Supporter

Author:Feisal Abdul Rauf

“The greatest security for Israel is to create new Egypts.”

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Author:Ronald Reagan

“I've been to Israel many times - I've lost count of how many times.”

Lost Israel

Author:Pat Robertson

“Our two party platforms were emphatic about Jerusalem being the capital of Israel. For the Obama administration to remove this language from the Democratic Party platform drives a wedge into one of the few issues that our two parties agreed on.”

Two Language Party Issues Democratic Israel Administration Remove Platforms Democratic Party Jerusalem Wedges

Author:Paul Ryan

“People are feeling and sensing a return of anti-Semitism - even in Europe, which, seventy years after the Holocaust, is a very scary thing. I think they are feeling that Israel is very isolated and doesn't always get what they see as fair treatment in the European media.”

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Author:Jonathan Sacks

“As long as the Palestinians send terrorists onto school buses and to nightclubs to blow up people, Israel has no choice but to build the fence.”

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Author:Charles Schumer

“Palestinians don't really believe in a state of Israel. They, unlike a majority of Israelis, who have come to the conclusion that they can live with a two-state solution to be determined by the parties, the majority of Palestinians are still very reluctant, and they need to be pushed to get there.”

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Author:Charles Schumer

“Israel may have the right to put others on trial, but certainly no one has the right to put the Jewish people and the State of Israel on trial.”

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Author:Ariel Sharon

“Both during the elections and as Prime Minister, I have repeatedly and publicly said that I support the establishment of a Palestinian state alongside the State of Israel.”

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Author:Ariel Sharon

“I cannot say that the attitude of the United Nations always is for the Israeli attitude. Israel, I think, has been under severe attacks by members of the United Nations many times.”

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Author:Ariel Sharon

“Netanyahu is pressured easily, gets into a panic, and loses his senses... to run a country like Israel a leader needs to have reason and judgment and nerves of steel, two traits he does not have.”

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Author:Ariel Sharon

“When I was born here on one of the farms in Israel, my childhood, I never thought for one day that we will not be living together with Arabs.”

Together Born Childhood One Day Israel Farms Living Together

Author:Ariel Sharon

“As a Jew, it is my historic responsibility to defend the Jewish people. I feel this responsibility for the survival of the Jewish people. We're not going to accept any decision by anybody else about security of the State of Israel. It is our role and only our role.”

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Author:Ariel Sharon

“And Israel, being a tiny, small country, of course has interest to strengthen - we have interest to strengthen our relations with other countries, mostly countries that were hostile for many, many years.”

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Author:Ariel Sharon

“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.”

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Author:Ariel Sharon

“Close to 80 percent of all terrorist activity in Samaria was directed and financed either by Hizbullah or the Iranians. Iran continues to increase its involvement in terror attacks inside Israel, particularly through a small but radical minority of Israeli Arabs which Iran supports and directs.”

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Author:Ariel Sharon

“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.”

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Author:Ariel Sharon

“It is impossible to have a Jewish, democratic state and at the same time to control all of Eretz Israel. If we insist on fulfilling the dream in its entirety, we are liable to lose it all. Everything. That is where the extremist path takes us.”

Ifs States Dream Loses Path Impossible Democratic Israel Fulfilling Extremist Liable Entirety

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.”

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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.”

Should States Existence One Thing Security Ready Citizens Losing Painful Israel Palestinian Israeli Concessions Losing Time

Author:Ariel Sharon

“To our Palestinian neighbours, I assure you that we have a genuine intention to respect your right to live independently and in dignity. I have already said that Israel has no desire to continue to govern over you and control your fate.”

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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.”

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Author:Ariel Sharon

“We do not build new Jewish communities in Samaria, Judea and Gaza. The United States has never accepted our building of communities or of the fence. Yet, I've managed to develop relations between Israel and the United States even though President Bush never supported settlements.”

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Author:Ariel Sharon

“I am a Zionist, an ardent supporter of Israel, its defender when I deem Israel to be right and its critic when I deem it to be wrong.”

Critics Israel Supporter Defenders Ardent Zionist

Author:Theodore Bikel

“But there is a difference here: When Jewish children are murdered, Arabs celebrate the deed. The death of an Arab child is no cause for celebration in Israel.”

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Author:Theodore Bikel

“I'm from Israel, so America has no limits. I started a record label, and then I started managing other artists, like Liza Minelli.”

America Artist Records Limits Israel Labels Record Labels

Author:Gene Simmons

“Given the genocidal belligerence of Iranian threats against Israel, it is hard to take issue with Israel's right to preemptive self-defense.”

Self Hard Given Issues Threat Israel Defense Self Defense Iranian Belligerence

Author:Conrad Black

“Most American media outlets that are controlled by Jews seem to be reflexively, or at least habitually, anti-Israel.”

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Author:Conrad Black

“The Arabs could have peace tomorrow if sufficient numbers of Palestinians were not content to be used as cannon fodder in fruitless assaults on Israel, even as the surrounding Arab powers distract the Arab masses with the red herring of Israel while retarding their countries with their repression and corruption.”

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Author:Conrad Black

“From the day I started to think politically and to develop my own moral values, from my earliest youth, I have been an ardent defender of Israel.”

Thinking Has Beens Values My Own Moral Youth Israel Defenders Ardent Moral Values

Author:Steven Spielberg

“I'm always in favor of Israel responding strongly when it's threatened.”

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Author:Steven Spielberg

“As a Jew I am aware of how important the existence of Israel is for the survival of us all. And because I am proud of being Jewish, I am worried by the growing anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism in the world.”

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Author:Steven Spielberg

“I'm always in favor of Israel responding strongly when it's threatened. At the same time, a response to a response doesn't really solve anything. It just creates a perpetual-motion machine.”

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Author:Steven Spielberg

“When are American Jews going to realize that the Republican Party is far better for Israel than the Democrats?”

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Author:Ben Stein

“Israel being condemned by the EU, which 66 years ago watched with glee as its Jews were being mass murdered. That is pretty rich.”

Years Rich Mass Years Ago Jew Israel Glee

Author:Ben Stein

“Wow, bad news. Mr. Obama now hates Israel because the Israelis want to build 1,600 apartments in their own capital city, Jerusalem. Russia hates Israel, too. So do the Europeans. So does Ban Ki-moon, a Korean who is secretary-general of the UN.”

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Author:Ben Stein

“Most governments are pragmatic, most people are logical. There are pockets of extremism in Israel, in the U.S. and in the Muslim world. But we have to fight them with reason, with logic and with compassion.”

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Author:Al-Waleed bin Talal

“We may need to change the way we think. As in Israel, I think there should be a mandatory draft, where you go away for the service of your country for three years.”

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Author:Steven Tyler

“A country that has really resonated with me and I was really impressed with was Israel. I found that the whole country had a very special atmosphere. I was there to perform, but it was one of the few places that I've visited over the years that I had some free time to explore, and I was hugely impressed by all the religious history there.”

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Author:Andrea Bocelli

“My father is sure that Israel keeps the Holocaust from happening again. I worry that it might hasten its recurrence.”

Might Father Worry Happenings Israel Holocaust Recurrence Happening Again

Author:Ayelet Waldman

“I was born in Israel, to Canadian parents. My father immigrated in 1948, part of a wave of young men and women who came as pioneers, to fight for a Jewish homeland. Their motive was in large part a reaction to the Holocaust, and their slogan was 'Never Again.'”

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Author:Ayelet Waldman

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