“The threat of mutually assured destruction worked for the United States during the Cold War because it had proved its willingness to drop nuclear bombs on enemy cities at the end of World War II. It might work less well for Israel, because the Israeli Air Force has never deliberately targeted a large civilian population center, and its leaders have said its morality would not permit it do so.” WorldWellsSaidWarEndsStatesMightForceUnitedCitiesLeaderEnemyUnited StatesAirColdMoralityDestructionThreatPopulationIsraelNuclearWar Of The WorldsBombsWillingnessPermitWorld War IiWorld War ICold WarAssuredCiviliansIsraeliAir ForceNuclear BombMutually Assured Destruction Author:Alan Dershowitz
“To be an actor in the society in Israel, you have to be ten times better than the Israeli Jews. To get the roles in mainstream theater or to get any role, not typecast as an Arab. And also if you are ten times better, not all the time you get the opportunity.” IfsActorsOpportunityRolesTenTheaterJewIsraelMainstreamIsraeli Author:Ali Suliman
“Are you an Israeli? I don't debate with Israelis. I have been misled, sorry. I don't recognise Israel and I don't debate with Israelis.” Has BeensSorryIsraelDebateIsraeliRecogniseMisled Author:George Galloway
“The underlying problem remains the Israeli occupation of Palestinian land and the continuing Israeli assaults against our people.” PeopleProblemLandRemainsOccupationPalestinianContinuingAssaultIsraeliIsraeli Occupation Author:Ismail Haniyeh
“Another longstanding foreign policy flaw is the degree to which special interests dictate the way in which the "national interest" as a whole is defined and pursued.... America's important historic relationship with Israel has often led foreign policy decision-makers to defer reflexively to Israeli security assessments, and to replicate Israeli tactics, which, as the war in Lebanon last summer demonstrated, can turn out to be counter-productive.” WayImportantWarWholeLastsAmericaTurnsInterestDecisionSpecialSecurityPolicyDegreesSummerIsraelDefinedProductiveFlawsMakersForeign PolicyHistoricTacticsPursuedIsraeliAssessmentSpecial InterestsLebanonNational InterestsReplicateDecision MakersLast Summer Author:Samantha Power
“I consider myself to be a true friend of the Israeli people. But I define friendship as someone who takes care of a friend, who just doesn't use or exploit a friend. And, you know, there's that old adage: 'Friends don't let friends drive drunk'.” PeopleKnowsUseCareTake CareDrunkTrue FriendExploitsIsraeliAdages Author:Scott Ritter
“I think it's (Israeli pressure for invading Iraq) the worst kept secret in Washington, everybody I talked to in Washington has known and fully knows what their agenda was and what they were trying to do; because I mentioned the Neo-Conservatives who describe themselves as Neo-Conservatives, I was called, Anti-Semitic.” ThinkingKnowsTryingSecretKnownWorstPressureIraqAgendasIsraeliInvadingAnti SemiticKept SecretsInvading Iraq Author:Anthony Zinni
“If the method is able to liberate our land, to liberate our people from Israeli jails, to reconstruct what was destroyed by the long-standing Israeli occupation, at that time we can discuss.” PeopleIfsLongAbleLandStandingMethodDestroyedJailOccupationIsraeliIsraeli Occupation Author:Mahmoud al-Zahar
“The issue [Israeli-Palestinian conflict], already lasting more than half a century, has brought deep suffering to the Palestinian people and remains an important reason of extended turbulence in the Middle East region.” PeopleImportantReasonSufferingHalfIssuesMiddleCenturyConflictRemainsEastRegionsLastingMiddle EastPalestinianIsraeliTurbulenceIsraeli Palestinian ConflictHalf A Century Author:Xi Jinping
“The Dictator' lands somewhere between wan Mel Brooks and good Adam Sandler, whose 'You Don't Mess With the Zohan,' about an Israeli Special Forces soldier at a hair salon, manages to strike better contrasts with vaguely similar culture differences - it's a nuttier movie, too.” CultureForceDifferencesLandSpecialHairSoldierStrikesManageMessAdamContrastDictatorIsraeliBrooksSalonsSpecial Forces Author:Wesley Morris
“It doesn't serve an American interest. It really doesn't really serve Israeli interests - it serves the interests of the political party that's getting the votes of the settlers on the West Bank.” PoliticalLiteratureInterestPartyVoteWestPolitical PartiesIsraeliSettlers Author:Chris Matthews
“Extol Jewish virtue, modern Zionism and the Israeli Defense Forces.” LiteratureForceVirtueModernDefenseIsraeliZionism Author:Geraldo Rivera
“From 1949 to the present, for every dollar the US spent on an African, it spent $250.65 on an Israeli, and for every dollar it spent on someone from the Western Hemisphere outside the US, it spent $214 on an Israeli.” AtheismDollarsWesternPositive AtheismIsraeliHemisphere Author:Ahdaf Soueif
“When I was a kid you always heard about the Israeli army and you always heard about this tiny little country and how everyone around them wants them gone, and every time somebody comes after them they take care of business. And so as a Jewish kid you were proud of that.” WantLittlesCountryCareKidsGoneHeardProudArmyTake CareTinyIsraeliIsraeli Army Author:Adam Sandler
“Israel has to accommodate the Palestinian demands and aspirations for ending occupation and the establishment of an independent Palestinian state. That is the only answer. The Israeli aggression on Gaza does not bring peace to Israel. We know that. We want end of occupation.” KnowsWantDoeEndsStatesAnswersDemandIndependentIsraelAspirationOccupationEstablishmentAggressionPalestinianIsraeliAccommodateGaza Author:Benjamin Netanyahu
“We want to end this misery of the Palestinian people in order for us really to live with dignity as human beings in an independent state side by side with the Israeli state.” PeopleWantHumansEndsStatesOrderSidesHuman BeingsDignityIndependentMiseryPalestinianIsraeli Author:Benjamin Netanyahu
“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.” PeopleWorldStatesResultsIsraelPhenomenonAggressionInvasionIsraeliGeography 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 CanWinningFunBecomingIsraelClosestIsraeliCan't WinClosest Friends Author:Alona Tal
“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.” PeopleTryingFeelingsSpiritThreeChallengesTechnologyProgressEconomicYouthInspireAreasAncientIsraelDuesPartnersEnterpriseImmigrantsExileThree ThingsIsraeliHomelandScience And TechnologyDiasporaPioneeringResurgencePioneering Spirit Author:David Ben-Gurion
“Real Jews, in concord with some Muslims, continue their war against Zionists and against Israeli crimes. The oppressed people of Palestine living under occupation must feel that believers of all faiths support them.” PeopleFeelsWarRealSupportCrimeJewBelieverOccupationOppressedPalestineIsraeliZionist Author:Maurice Motamed
“One can criticize the Israeli government, but it is not fair to judge the people of Israel.” PeopleGovernmentJudgingFairsIsraelCriticizeIsraeliNot Fair Author:Antonio Munoz Molina
“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.” WayMeanResourcesIsraelOne WayAdministrationRegionsIsraeliArrangingClout Author:Bashar al-Assad
“Lebanon was under Israeli occupation, up to its capital, but we did not consider that a disaster. Why? Because it was very clear that there are ways to resist.” WayClearDisasterOccupationIsraeliEugenicsLebanonIsraeli Occupation Author:Bashar al-Assad
“All American and Israeli goods and products should be boycotted in a way that undermines American and Israeli interests so as to act as deterrence to their war against Muslims and Islam that is being waged under the pretence of fighting terrorism. This boycott should become an overwhelming trend that makes these two states feel that their economies are in a real and actual danger.” WayFeelsShouldTwoWarRealStatesFightingInterestEconomyDangerProductsIslamTerrorismGoodsTrendsOverwhelmingIsraeliPretenseBoycottFighting TerrorismDeterrence Author:Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah
“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.” WayBookHardStoriesFatherNationsProcessWrittenIsraelTalesMemoirWarmthHeroicResentmentFoundersConsolationIsraeliGrippingOdysseyHard Truths Author:Edmund White
“The security of the citizens of Israel, the future of the state of Israel, this is the Israeli governments responsibility.” StatesGovernmentResponsibilitySecurityCitizensIsraelIsraeli Author:Avigdor Lieberman
“On taking office in 2009, U.S. President Barack Obama put Israeli settlements at the center of U.S. policy in the Middle East.” PresidentMiddlePolicyOfficeEastBarackMiddle EastIsraeliSettlementPresident Barack ObamaIsraeli Settlements Author:Elliott Abrams
“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.” WorldReligiousTenConflictJewIsraelEightTerritoryIsraeliJerusalemOutside WorldFieryCoastalNationalistic Author:Amos Oz
“When PLO sniper fire is followed by 14 hours of Israeli bombardment, that's stretching the definition of defensive action too far.” WarActionPeaceHoursFireDefinitionsIsraeliStretchingSnipers Author:Ronald Reagan
“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.” WayYearsHas BeensFactsAmericaPastDifferencesViewsLandStrangeEuropeIndiaImportanceIsraelBritishColonialismIsraeliHomelandCongo Author:Benjamin Netanyahu
“I don't know of any army that does more than an Israeli army does to avoid civilian casualties. But incidental and unintended casualties accompany every war.” KnowsDoeWarArmyCiviliansIsraeliAccompanyCasualtiesCivilian CasualtiesIsraeli Army Author:Benjamin Netanyahu
“From 1967, all the Israeli governments continued making two big mistakes: occupation and settlement in the territories.” TwoBigsGovernmentMistakeOccupationTerritoryIsraeliSettlementBig Mistake Author:Stephane Hessel
“Tens of thousands have been killed or wounded by the Israeli army since 1967. During 2006, the number of Palestinians killed reached 650. Since the beginning of the Israeli occupation in 1967, more than 650,000 Palestinians have been detained by Israel - about 40% of the male population.” Has BeensNumbersArmyMalesPopulationIsraelOccupationPalestinianWoundedIsraeliIsraeli OccupationIsraeli Army Author:Ismail Haniyeh
“When the Israeli leaders launched their expansionist war in June 1967 they never envisaged that 40 years later they would still be haunted by the consequences.” YearsStillsWarLeaderConsequenceJuneIsraeli Author:Ismail Haniyeh
“Science is not a sacred cow. Science is a horse. Don’t worship it. Feed it. [Addressing a group of prospective contributors to an Israeli scientific research program]” GroupsWorshipResearchProgramHorseSacredCowsIsraeliScientific ResearchContributorsSacred Cows Author:Abba Eban
“And on the other hand, we see that the Israeli government is attacking that part of the Palestinian leader.” HandsGovernmentLeaderPalestinianAttackingIsraeli Author:Rafik Hariri
“Navajo infants get so attached to cradleboard that they cry to be tied into it. Kikuyu infants in Kenya get handed around several"mothers," all wives to one man. . . . Mothers in rural Guatemala keep their infants quiet, in dark huts. Middle-class American mothers talk a blue streak at them. Israeli kibbutz mothers give them over to a communal caretaker . . . Japanese mothers sleep with them. . . . All these tactics are compatible with normal health--physical and mental--and development in infancy. So one lesson for parents so far seems to be: Let a hundred flowers bloom.” MenGivingSeemsMotherParentDarkSleepClassWifeMiddleCryFlowerDevelopmentLessonsQuietNormalHundredBlueMiddle ClassOne ManTiedInfantTacticsIsraeliInfancyKenyaCompatibleStreaksHutsBlooming FlowerCaretakersGuatemalaNew Parents Author:Melvin Konner
“Agribusiness could provide an opportunity for joint Israeli-Palestinian projects, spurred on by Israeli technical expertise in this field.” OpportunityFieldsProjectsPalestinianJointsIsraeliExpertiseAgribusiness Author:Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
“A two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and a region free of Iranian nukes are worthy goals that should be able to withstand public scrutiny in every Middle Eastern capital.” ShouldTwoStatesAbleGoalMiddleConflictSolutionsWorthyRegionsPalestinianEasternIsraeliScrutinyIranianIsraeli Palestinian ConflictNukes Author:Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
“Newly released transcripts reveal that President Nixon was drunk during the Arab-Israeli crisis of 1973. After hearing this, President Bush said, 'Hey, so was I!'” SaidPresidentCrisisHearingDrunkHeyIsraeliPresident BushPresident Nixon Author:Conan O'Brien
“Give me until the end of the year and I will be able to control the chaos in Gaza, ... Now that the Israeli pullout is completed, we will be able to better deal with the problem.” GivingYearsEndsProblemAbleDealsGive MeChaosIsraeliGaza Author:Mahmoud Abbas
“I have nothing to say to him [Ronald Reagan], because he is mad. He is foolish. He is an Israeli dog.” DogMadFoolishIsraeli Author:Muammar al-Gaddafi
“If you ask me 'What is the one great move you can make to improve the Israeli economy?' of course it will be signing an agreement with the Arab world about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. This will change everything.” IfsWorldMovingCoursesAsksChangeEconomyConflictAsk MeAgreementPalestinianThings ChangeIsraeliSigningArab WorldIsraeli Palestinian Conflict Author:Yair Lapid
“The protesters, in Jerusalem and in Tel Aviv, revealed an open and raw wound at the heart of Israeli society, the pain of a community crying out over a sense of discrimination, racism, and of being unanswered.” HeartPainCommunityCryRacismWoundsDiscriminationIsraeliJerusalemUnanswered Author:Reuven Rivlin
“We will never agree to give up Jerusalem, a united city under Israeli sovereignty, and only Israeli. We will not accept a terrorist Palestinian state, we will not accept an agreement based on the 67 lines.” GivingStatesLinesUnitedCitiesAcceptingGiving UpAgreeTerroristAgreementPalestinianSovereigntyIsraeliJerusalem Author:Naftali Bennett
“I was working as a journalist for an Israeli paper in Paris, and my salary at the highest was fifty dollars a month. At the end of the month I always had palpitations; I didn't know how to pay my rent. Even after the war, I was often hungry. But that's part of the romantic condition of a student. To be a student in Paris and not be hungry is wrong.” KnowsWarEndsPayKnow HowConditionsStudentsMonthsPaperHighestDollarsHungryJournalistParisFiftySalaryIsraeliPalpitation Author:Elie Wiesel
“Obama has been the single worst president in modern American history in dealing with the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.” Has BeensPresidentModernWorstConflictPalestinianAmerican HistoryIsraeliIsraeli Palestinian Conflict Author:Reza Aslan
“An Israeli who thinks that his government is doing everything right wouldn't join the Divan Orchestra in the first place.” ThinkingFirstsGovernmentOrchestraIsraeli Author:Daniel Barenboim
“The suicide bomber who blows up Israeli children cannot transform himself into a martyr. The Palestinian problem is not an Islamic problem.” ChildrenProblemSuicideBlowIslamicPalestinianMartyrIsraeliBombersSuicide Bombers Author:Tariq Ramadan
“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