Top 1200 Israel Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

The State of Israel was not established so that the anti-Semites will disappear but, rather, so we can tell them to get lost.

Israel is the second Silicon Valley, and it is therefore the only other place we have chosen to expand our activities.

I've been impressed, obviously, with what Israel has done over the years, as it related to technology, agriculture, research in general.

I can speak in cliches and say how much the Israel national team means to us, but we have to prove that on the pitch.

In Israel, the role of the writer is dictated by the language in which you write. Writers see themselves as cultural prophets.

The zionist argument to justify Israel's present occupation of Arab Palestine has no intelligent or legal basis in history.

I don't know that there is one serious American representative that will advise Israel to sit with a terrorist government and negotiate with them.

Given the long history of global anti-Semitism and continued calls for the destruction of Israel, it's tough to be a Jew.

Hamas is a terror organization with a covenant that speaks about the elimination of the Jewish people and the State of Israel. They are not partners for negotiations.

Between 1980 and 2000 the number of patents registered in Israel was 7652 compared with 367 for all the Arab countries combined.

The Palestinian Authority refuses on an ongoing basis to take the necessary steps to prevent terrorists from getting into Israel.

Israel gets more than half of all the military purchasing assistance that America gives to all the nations in the world.

The holiness of the kingdom of God must be preserved. If Jesus refused to acknowledge and fight for Israel as God's favored nation- even though it was the one nation in history that actually held this status at one time- how much more must his followers refuse to acknowledge and fight for America as God's favored nation" To say it another way, if Jesus was committed solely to establishing a kingdom that had no intrinsic nationalistic or ethnic allegiances- not even with Israel- how much more should his followers be committed to expanding this unique, non-nationalistic kingdom?

Jewish status is defined by the divine election of Israel and his descendants. One does not become a Jew by one's own volition.

I have no sentiments for nationality or for soil. But I grew up in Israel, so those things are in my blood, and I want to be part of Israeli culture.

A bloc of states is emerging that understands that they may have been wrong to think that Israel is the world's greatest problem.

The Palestinians have tried everything, and by God, it's Israel's governments that taught us that the only thing the Israelis appreciate is force.

It was in our power to cause the Arab governments to renounce 'the policy of strength' toward Israel by turning it into a demonstration of weakness.

I love the team and was always proud to represent Israel and do everything to bring accomplishments and give the fans something to root for.

We Austrians know that in light of our own history, we have a special responsibility toward Israel and the Jewish people.

Israel was founded as a refuge for the Jewish people, but today it isn't a safe place. It is safer to be Jew in New York.

In times of peace, just as today in our fight against terror, the United States and Israel stand together.

I believe that in both parties, Democrat and Republican, support for Israel is bipartisan, it is strong and it is unwavering, and I don't see that changing.

With the exception of Obama's belated lame-duck behavior, the US has always, in practice, supported Israel unquestionably.

Foreigners who speak Arabic in the Middle East are often assumed to be working for the C.I.A. or Israel's intelligence agency, the Mossad.

Will you join me in hearing the case for keeping weapons from those who preach death to Israel and America?

I was a big girl considering herself beautiful, which is in conservative Israel had never been seen.

Israel is the American watchdog in the Middle East, and that's why the Palestinians remain victims of one of the longest military occupations.

It's hard to find an emblem of cultural, national pride that burns as bright as Israel's success in classical music.

We have to remember the bigger picture: the U.S.-Israel alliance is too important to be hijacked by political interests or undermined by perceived riffs.

While Israel is prepared to make generous compromises for peace, it cannot go back to the 1967 lines...

There is an alliance between Israel and the United States, and it has never been stronger than at the time of George W. Bush.

The United States provides Israel with crucial security and economic aid and invaluable political backing in the international arena.

There is total unanimity that the most serious threat facing the United States and Israel is a nuclear-armed Iran.

The last thing that Israel needs is to be part of the internal agenda in the United States between Republicans and Democrats.

The Palestinians are a despotic, undemocratic grouping which promotes a religious war against Israel, a democracy, through terror.

Egypt is the second-largest recipient over a long period of U.S. military and economic aid. Israel is first.

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.

If America would really stand behind the two-state solution, they could make real pressure on Israel.

Israel is not the safest place in the world for Jews. Melbourne in Australia is better. Teaneck, New Jersey, is safer.

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

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

Hamas has long been Israel's enemy, but in the wake of the Arab Spring, the group is empowered like never before.

Without that assured American largesse Israel would have been obliged to come to an accommodation with her neighbours.

People expect someone with the name 'Israel Horovitz' to be a little old man with sideburns carrying a Torah.

England, Australia, Israel, a few staunch, important allies internationally. But we have lost a lot of international support.

I'm not a single-issue person, but I spend so much time on Israel because it is so unfairly condemned around the world.

Despite the obvious qualifications of all of Jesse's other sons, God appoints the unlikely David to become the king of Israel.

America has to stand by our allies. I think the tension that existed between Israel and the United States was very unfortunate.

Iran, Ireland, Israel. That's three countries, four religions that HATE each other. Way to go, 'I'.

Israel was seen as having demonstrated unmistakably it wanted peace, and the reason it wasn't available, achievable was because Arafat wouldn't accept it.

Israel is still the only country in the world against which there is a written document to the effect that it must disappear.

I think living in Israel and wanting to change reality is the best prescription for never-ending writer's block.

What Kuwait did to the Palestinian people is worse than what has been done by Israel to Palestinians in the occupied territories.

The P.L.O., and later the Palestinian Authority, never truly accepted that Israel, as the national state and homeland of the Jewish people, was here to stay.

Israel is a lighthouse and the only democracy in a dark and tyrannical region. It's part of us, of our European identity.

No country in the world is going to recognize that Ariel and Maaleh Adumim and Beit El are a sovereign part of Israel.

To the best of my knowledge, after the Pollard affair, Israel does not spy on the United States or against American targets.

The Arabs are ready to accept a strong Israel with nuclear arms - all it has to do is open the gates of its fortress and make peace.

Israel desperately needs peace if it is to come anywhere close to being the 'light unto nations' of Jewish dreams.