Top 1200 Israel Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

America has some capabilities that Israel doesn't have. And Israel cannot place their security in the hands of Barack Obama; they can't do it.

There's still a role for the Association for Israel Studies. But not as the endpoint of scholarship and not as a fortress to defend Israel.

The security of the citizens of Israel, the future of the state of Israel, this is the Israeli governments responsibility.

The Arabs are terrorists and Israel is making the world a safer place.Well done Israel.

Israel's pro-American orientation exists not just among Israeli elites but also among the whole population. Come what may in Israel, it's inconceivable that this fundamental orientation will change. Combined with its overwhelming military power, this makes Israel a unique and irreplaceable American asset in the Middle East.

Like Mahmoud Abbas. He is not gaining anything. He puts conditions and Israel ignores them. Israel doesn’t give him any hint that they will accept a single one of his conditions. Let me tell you. Arafat went to Oslo and signed [the agreement]. What did Israel do? They confined him in Muqata in one room and killed him.

To come and say about me that I'm destroying Israel, that I hate Israel, that's a bit insulting.

You should make the world understand that Israel is the oppressor and that Israel must be destroyed.

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

Our relationship would never vary from its allegiance to the shared values, the shared religious heritage, the shared democratic politics which have made the relationship between the United States and Israel a special-even on occasion a wonderful-relationship ... The United States admires Israel for all that it has overcome and for all that it has accomplished. We are proud of the strong bond we have forged with Israel, based on our shared values and ideals. That unique relationship will endure just as Israel has endured.

My constant prayer, my number one foreign goal, is to bring peace to Israel. And in the process to Israel's neighbours.

Israel has the best engineers in the world... I view Israel as a tremendous source of technologies

It's not a matter of rejection (of Israel's existence). Israel is here, present by power.

For decades Israel has been capturing, and kidnapping Lebanese and Palestinian refugees on the high seas, from Cyprus to Lebanon, killing them in Lebanon, bringing them to Israel, holding them as hostages. It's been going on for decades, has anybody called for an invasion of Israel?

Toward the Palestinians, Israel can only give. But when dealing with the entire Arab world, Israel can get a lot.

Only Arab Israel, the land of Israel, is our true homeland.

What happens in Israel should be decided between Israel and the Palestinians.

If the U.S. decides Jerusalem is the capital of Israel, that does not mean that Jerusalem is the capital of Israel. Because the whole world is saying Jerusalem is not the capital of Israel.

The ayatollahs are trying to unite the whole Arab world against Israel by saying that Israel is something that should be brought to an end.

Israel was not created in order to disappear. Israel will endure and flourish.

Israel is the canary in the mine. What happens to Israel will eventually happen to America itself.

I served as the chairman of the India-Israel Parliamentary Friendship Group for three years, during which I also had the pleasure of visiting Israel.

The security of the citizens of Israel, the future of the state of Israel, this is the Israeli government's responsibility.

I tried to eliminate the need for Israel to strike out, militarily, by removing its major threat and attacker, and that was Egypt. I've written a few books on the subject. There's no doubt that the best way to resolve Israel's problems is to negotiate peace between Israel and its immediate neighbors, particularly the Palestinians. And that's something that's not going to be achieved, in my opinion, without the strong involvement of the American president.

There’s no one in Israel who appreciates more than me the importance of American support for Israel.

The most important thing in the Land of Israel is to build, build, build. Its important that there will be an Israeli presence everywhere. Our principal problem is still Israels leaders unwillingness to say in a simple manner that the Land of Israel belongs to the People of Israel.

When I'd go to Israel, I felt like a tourist. My social and professional ties had started to dissolve, and it confused me. I didn't know whether I should stay here in Paris or go back to Israel, or even cut off all my ties with Israel so I could really plant roots here. Or maybe go somewhere else altogether.

I have absolute respect for Israel and people in Israel who are critical of their own country.

Israel has an important principle: It is only Israel that is responsible for our security.

Let me tell you what the Cain Doctrine would be, as it relates to Israel if I were president. You mess with Israel, you are messing with the United States of America!

Look at Israel. Israel is a great country for examples on how to do security.

As a youth, I was much more of a Zionist. But Israel was very different then. Israel's changed, and so have I.

On the right of Israel to exist and to defend itself, there is no opposition in Israel.

The Europeans do tend to delegitimize Israel and turn Israel into a dirty word, which is unforgivable.

Well, Israel, obviously, thinks of the Iranian nuclear program as an existential threat to Israel.

A new State of Israel with broad frontiers, strong and solid, with the authority of the Israel Government extending from the Jordan to the Suez Canal.

I cannot conceive of Israel withdrawing if Arab states do not recognize Israel, within secure borders.

Democrats and Republicans love Israel and all of us care about the existential threat to Israel from Iran.

I've spoken several times with Prime Minister Erdogan about relations between Turkey and Israel. I'm pleased that, following President Obama's visit to Israel, talks between Israel and Turkey are again taking place and hope that relations between them will further improve in the interest of both countries.

Eretz Israel will be restored to the people of Israel. All of it. And forever.

We shall never stop until we can go back home and Israel is destroyed... The goal of our struggle is the end of Israel, and there can be no compromises or mediations... the goal of this violence is the elimination of Zionism from Palestine in all its political, economic and military aspects... We don't want peace, we want victory. Peace for us means Israel's destruction and nothing else.

Israel deserves special treatment from the United States, both for historical reasons and because there can be no regional peace without a secure Israel.

If you live in Israel and you see the way life is there and then you go abroad and see the way Israel is reported on, the way that Israel gets reported on night after night is simply pictures of bombings or military actions.

We want to see Israel withdraw from our territory. But we don't want to be accountable vis-a-vis Israel on the security basis, because we don't see, in the absence of a peace agreement, that Lebanon can really be accountable to Israel if anything happens.

I am a Jew, Israel is a Jewish state. .?.?. Israel’s case is my case, Israel’s enemies are my enemies, and I do not want to be spared the troubles which Israeli musicians encounter when they represent the Jewish state beyond its borders.

There's no one in Israel who appreciates more than me the importance of American support for Israel.

I think that a strong Israel is the only Israel that will bring the Arabs to the peace table.

I welcome this chance to further strengthen the unbreakable ties between the United States and Israel and to assure you of our commitment to Israel's security and well-being. Israel and America may be thousands of miles apart, but we are philosophical neighbors sharing a strong commitment to democracy and the rule of law. What we hold in common are the bonds of trust and friendship, qualities that in our eyes make Israel a great nation. No people have fought longer, struggled harder, or sacrificed more than yours in order to survive, to grow, and to live in freedom

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.

The mystified idea I had of Israel - the demonization of Israel - it just wasn't true.

We've never been to Israel. I'd like to play in Israel.

If the refugees return to Israel - Israel will cease to exist.

As far as Israel, I am not worried about the relations between Israel and the United States.

There is a spiritual Israel and a natural Israel. God is committed to both. Neither replaces the other.

It's not good for Israel to have a Palestinian state in the heart of Israel.

My mother and I were part of a deal in the mid-'60s between Romania and Israel. Israel bought freedom for Romanian Jews for $2,000 a head. Ceausescu made a bundle in hard currency. He also 'sold' ethnic Germans to West Germany. Instead of going to Israel, my mother and I came to the United States.

If people are pro-Israel, they are pro-Israel one-hundred-and-twenty percent. If they are anti-Israel or pro-Palestinian, they tend to be pro-Palestinian one-hundred-and-twenty percent. I don't think a decent person has to choose between being pro-Israel and pro-Palestine. I think you have to be pro-Peace.

In Israel, I don't do any interviews at all. I don't want to be a celebrity in Israel.

Just as we rely on Israel as a continual source of inspiration and renewal, Israel relies on us.

Israel is guilty of apartheid and persecution of the Palestinian people, both inside Israel and also in the Occupied Territories.