Top 1200 Israeli Occupation Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

I have one identity, and that's Israeli and Jewish. I don't view myself as an American citizen.

For me, sacrificing Israeli democracy is not something I can agree to.

Everybody is in the pocket of the Israeli lobbies.

The Israeli strategy has been proven to be a complete failure.

I served in the Israeli Navy, and it's not an easy thing.

There used to be the Soviet Union and the Warsaw Pact. There used to be Soviet troops in the GDR. And we must honestly admit that they were occupation troops, which remained in Germany after WWII under the guise of allied troops. Now these occupation troops are gone, the Soviet Union has collapsed, and the Warsaw Pact is no more. There is no Soviet threat, but NATO and U.S. troops are still in Europe. What for?

Israeli government & the neocons want US to bomb Iran.

It may be true that people who are merely mathematicians have certain specific shortcomings; however that is not the fault of mathematics, but is true of every exclusive occupation. Likewise a mere linguist, a mere jurist, a mere soldier, a mere merchant, and so forth. One could add such idle chatter that when a certain exclusive occupation is often connected with certain specific shortcomings, it is on the other hand always free of certain other shortcomings.

Life: my favorite occupation.

Dreaming is a lifetime occupation.

One can criticize the Israeli government, but it is not fair to judge the people of Israel.

If you are a Jewish Israeli, you go to Gaza, you get the villa of your life, the villa which you did not dream of ever getting in Israel, a beautiful two-story villa with green meadows and so on, practically for nothing. Then you put up hothouses of tomatoes or flowers; you take the very Arabs from whom you grabbed this land and employ them as laborers in your hothouses. Israeli law does not apply in Gaza: There is no minimum wage, no annual vacation, no compensation for dismissal - so you get the work very, very cheap. It is a wonderful setup economically.

No Palestinian, young or old, would be frightened by these Israeli tactics.

Occupation is the scythe of time.

Winter is not a season, it's an occupation.

Capitol Hill is Israeli occupied territory.

Cooperation with the U.S. is the basis on which all Israeli foreign policy is built.

Writing is a solitary occupation.

I've been very active all my life. I was a combat instructor in the Israeli Army.

Am I an Israeli? That's a good question.

America does not accept the legitimacy of continued Israeli settlements.

As long as they keep building settlements, the world will be anti-Israeli.

I don't think I'm anti-Israeli.

The justification - the idea that we have a right to invade another country and determine another people's destiny - is frightening. And I fear really for the future of that occupation. What happens now, and twenty years from now, and forty years from now, given our case? People in the United States may feel like when we don't see it on CNN twenty-four hours a day, it sort of disappears. But it doesn't disappear for the people who have to live under occupation - and their children and their children's children.

Israeli suffering has to be understood.

I'm not Israeli and because I'm not a citizen, it doesn't matter how often I go there - I'm still not Israeli. There's this way I feel so close to so many people there, but I always feel like I'm staring through the glass. And in a way, having this really thin piece of glass between me and this place is incredibly useful for me as a writer, because I'm just so hyper-aware of it. I could take a walk in San Francisco and probably notice a third of the things that I would notice in Israel, because I'm just attuned to everything when I'm there.

The Israeli people must be free to live in peace and security.

There are people who think I am Israeli. That's rubbish.

I am an Israeli-born American citizen.

Extol Jewish virtue, modern Zionism and the Israeli Defense Forces.

Being a Jew and an Israeli are inseparable things.

Israeli citizens deserve full-time ministers.

The Israeli-Palestinian conflict and Jihadism have nothing to do with each other.

When the world looks at America, what it sees is an Israeli colony.

I am the Israeli leader who met most with Arafat.

It often takes time for the Israeli government to get things done.

Politically, the ultraorthodox represent a small portion of the Israeli society.

I'd like to see the haredim become part of the Israeli society.

Ballin's not a hobby, it's my occupation

I pledge that the personal safety of Israeli citizens will not be futile.

Occupation alone is happiness.

It is wrong to say the U.S. should "not take sides" in the Israeli-Palestinian dispute.

I love meeting Israeli people. They look at me like a son

Let a man choose what condition he will, and let him accumulate around him all the goods and gratifications seemingly calculated to make him happy in it; if that man is left at any time without occupation or amusement, and reflects on what he is, the meagre, languid felicity of his present lot will not bear him up. He will turn necessarily to gloomy anticipations of the future; and unless his occupation calls him out of himself, he is inevitably wretched.

Sometimes, recently Israeli-Palestinian conflict is indeed a clash between wrong and wrong. It is not as simple as fascism was. Every decent man had to be against fascism, period. It is not as simple as apartheid or colonialism or racism or misogyny. It is not simple because the Palestinians have no other land. They are absolutely right about this. The Israeli Jews also have no other land and they are absolutely right about this. It is a tragedy of two peoples claiming the same very small country, about the size of New Jersey.

No Israeli leader is a king.

The Israeli public is frustrated with the way it is portrayed abroad.

marriage was a calamity, but it was not an occupation.

You can't have occupation and human rights.

It's OK to criticize Israeli policy.

Absence of occupation is not rest.

I am very hopeful that there is a solution to the Israeli/Palestinian injustice.

Israeli lives are worth more than Palestinian ones.

No Israeli leader will accept a nuclear Iran.

My sole occupation is love.

Think of the great spirits of the last 50 years: Ghandi killed, not by a Pakistani Muslim, but one of his own Hindus, who hated him because he wanted India for the Muslims, the Sikhs, for everybody; Sadat, killed by the organization that Mr. bin Laden's No. 2 heads now, not by an Israeli, but by an Egyptian. My friend Yitzhak Rabin -- after a lifetime defending Israel, killed -- not by a Palestinian terrorist, but an angry Israeli because he wanted to lay down arms and take up peace... Fanatics are defined by their hatreds; free people by their humanity.

Israeli Arabs are equal citizens.

Occupation is the armor of the soul.

It's important to remember that World War II was experienced very much as a continuity in that sense. Most of World War II in most of Europe wasn't a war; it was an occupation. The war was at the beginning and the end, except in Germany and the Soviet Union, and even there really only at the end. So the rest of time it's an occupation, which in some ways was experienced as an extension of the interwar period. World War II was simply an extreme form, in a whole new key, of the disruption of normal life that began in 1914.

There can be no peace if the occupation continues.