“Those who closely watched the campaign should not be surprised by Obama’s hostility toward Israel, given his relations with pro-Palestinian, virulent critics of Israel and his voluntary membership in Reverend Wright’s decidedly anti-Semitic church. Furthermore, his campaign website featured anti-Semitic posts.” ShouldGivenChurchRelationCriticsIsraelCampaignsPostsPalestinianHostilityWebsiteMembershipAnti SemiticReverends Author:David Limbaugh
“What is... disturbing to me is that many of these pro-Israeli lawmakers sit on the House International Relations Committee despite the obvious conflict of interest that their emotional attachments to Israel cause... The Israeli occupation of all territories must end, including Congress.” EndsHouseCausesInterestEmotionalConflictRelationIncludingInternationalCongressObviousIsraelDespiteAttachmentOccupationTerritoryCommitteesDisturbingIsraeliInternational RelationsLawmakersConflict Of InterestIsraeli Occupation Author:Cynthia McKinney
“I believe that the biblical teaching is clear. It always contests political power. It incites to "counterpower," to "positive" criticism, to an irreducible dialogue (like that between king and prophet in Israel), to antistatism, to a decentralizing of the relation, to an extreme relativizing of everything political, to an anti-ideology, to a questioning of all that claims either power or dominion (in other words, of all things political), and finally, if we may use a modern term, to a kind of "anarchism" (so long as we do not relate the term to the anarchist teaching of the nineteenth century).” IfsKindMayLongUsePoliticalTermClearTeachingModernCenturyKingsAll ThingsCriticismClaimsRelationIsraelExtremesDialogueIdeologyRelateProphetQuestioningBiblicalContestsAnarchismAnarchistDominionNineteenth CenturyPolitical Power Author:Jacques Ellul
“Steps toward a rapprochement between Israel and the Arab states create a process that turns economics into the moving force that shapes the regional relations instead of nationalist interests that were dominant in the past.” StatesPastMovingTurnsForceProcessInterestStepsShapesEconomicsRelationIsraelDominant Author:Yitzhak Rabin
“Public opinion in Egypt is very antagonistic to the way the dictatorship, Mubarak dictatorship, interpreted relations with Israel. Very antagonistic.” WayOpinionRelationIsraelDictatorshipEgyptPublic OpinionMubarak Author:Noam Chomsky
“It's interesting to think about the history of Israel in relation to the history of the U.S.. There were Native Americans living here that U.S. settlers totally displaced, and that narrative is not connected with the Isreal-Palestinian struggle at all.” ThinkingInterestingStruggleRelationIsraelConnectedNarrativeNativeNative AmericanPalestinianSettlers Author:Jill Soloway
“Jewish communities in the diaspora are very important to Israel and we are open to a dialogue with them. It is bitter for us to see the process of assimilation, the mixing of Jewish and non-Jewish. But when it comes to the relations of state and religions, the basics have not changed since Rabin's times.” ImportantStatesProcessCommunityChangedRelationIsraelDialogueBitterMixingAssimilationBasicsDiasporaJewish Community Author:Ayelet Shaked
“Israel defined its God and its relation to that God in existential, relational terms. They did not, until quite late, approach the question of one God in an abstract philosophical way.” WayTermLateApproachRelationPhilosophicalIsraelDefinedAbstractExistential Author:Frank Moore Cross
“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.” YearsCountryCoursesInterestRelationIsraelTinyOther CountriesHostileSmall Countries 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.” StatesPresidentCommunityUnitedUnited StatesBuildingRelationIsraelAcceptedFencePresident BushSettlementGazaJewish Community Author:Ariel Sharon
“Fifty-seven countries in the world, a third of the United Nations, do not recognize Israel. In a way, I think North Korea has better international relations than Israel.” ThinkingWorldWayCountryNationsUnitedThirdsRelationSevenInternationalIsraelFiftyUnited NationsKoreaNorth KoreaInternational Relations Author:Abdallah II