Top 1200 Israeli Soldiers Quotes & Sayings - Page 5

Now, the other pillar of Israeli power - Western support and complicity - is starting to crack. We must do all we can to push it over.

I'm studying Krav Maga, which is an Israeli form of self defense. It's very deadly and without rules.

If any overarching conclusion emerges from the Afghan and Iraq Wars (and from their Israeli equivalents), it's this: victory is a chimera.

Obama has been the single worst president in modern American history in dealing with the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

It is time to acknowledge the extraordinary sacrifice of all of our veterans. While many Massachusetts soldiers served our nation in a period technically dubbed 'peacetime,' they restored American pride in the wake of Vietnam and helped bring a successful end to the Cold War. The service of these men and women was not without cost. There are countless stories of soldiers who served with great distinction only to be denied veteran status after returning home. Every man and woman who volunteered to serve this country should be treated with the same degree of respect, gratitude and dignity.

The Israeli regime is a tool in the hands of Zionists to control the Middle-East and the entire world.

The Labor party under my leadership is working to bring the Israeli people together from all nationalities in the spirit of the scroll of independence.

Moreover, resolving the mother of all problems - the Israeli-Palestinian question - requires cooperation between Europe and the U.S.

Mutual investments of Israeli and American companies strengthen economic ties between the two countries and contribute to Israel and to the U.S. alike.

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.

I think we need to change the system of elections in order to give less power to some sectors in Israeli society.

I think the U.S. leaders should do more to support our Israeli allies and the Palestinians to find peace.

WWE is there for the soldiers.

I felt that we had become a society ruled by sectors, by interest groups: Whoever's connected to the Israeli government gets more.

We must draw a distinction between understanding and supporting Israel's values and existence, and criticising any Israeli government's policy.

Any Israeli attack on Lebanon, Iran, Syria or Gaza will be met with a fierce response.

I used to come out here every Fourth of July as a child to picnic and to swim on the island, to tour the fort and wander through it. And all of that time, I never knew anything about the presence of black soldiers on the island. And so, for me, this was a way of trying to tell another history, a lost or a forgotten or a little-known history about these black soldiers who played an important part in American history.” Trethewey said. Coincidentally, she was born “exactly 100 years to the day that Mississippi celebrated the first Confederate Memorial Day, April 26, 1866.

It is obvious that putting the Arab-Israeli dispute on a resolution track would be an important element of overcoming the confidence problem in the region.

The Israeli prime minister, whoever that person is, should have an open invitation to come to America to speak to Congress and the American people.

The Iranians are abusing the Israeli-Palestinian conflict to gain more support from radical elements in the region.

An Israeli who thinks that his government is doing everything right wouldn't join the Divan Orchestra in the first place.

I write in a slangy colloquial speech that has not been common in the Israeli tradition of writing, and that is one of the things that gets lost a little in translation.

Israeli Arabs don't have to go. But if they stay, they have to take an oath of allegiance to Israel as a Jewish Zionist state.

The Obama administration has consistently refused to recognize Jerusalem as Israeli territory, let alone as the capital of Israel.

Jared Kushner is the last person that should be trying to bring peace to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.

We must continue to foster relevant and constructive dialogue among Israeli and Palestinian communities.

I believe that in the long run, separation between Israel and the Palestinians is the best solution for resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Serving in the Israeli Army taught me what it means to be part of something greater than yourself.

From 1967, all the Israeli governments continued making two big mistakes: occupation and settlement in the territories.

Israeli occupation exposes us very young to the extremes of our emotions, until we cannot feel except in the extreme.

I am still confused as to why they chose to lie and tried to make me a legend when the real heroics of my fellow soldiers that day were, in fact, legendary. People like Lori Piestewa and First Sergeant Dowdy who picked up fellow soldiers in harm's way. Or people like Patrick Miller and Sergeant Donald Walters who actually fought until the very end. The bottom line is the American people are capable of determining their own ideals of heroes and they don't need to be told elaborate tales.

Being an Israeli is to know that you have risen from the ashes of those who were killed and knowing you have a responsibility for the coming generations.

Israeli independence - what we Arabs call al-Naqba, 'The Catastrophe' - it created Palestinian identity more than anything else.

The Israeli army had the most sophisticated weaponry and they used it against residential towers, schools and hospitals.

I grew up in a working-class Israeli family, which was feminist only in its female-dominated structure.

I've been studying Israeli army martial arts. I now know 16 ways to kick a Palestinian woman in the back.

On taking office in 2009, U.S. President Barack Obama put Israeli settlements at the center of U.S. policy in the Middle East.

Sometimes it seems that what really worries the Israeli governments, even more than the Muslim Brotherhood, is the real Egypt.

It is inconceivable that ministers of the Israeli government choose a car whose features are unnecessary luxuries in addition to being produced in Germany.

Hebron is a bone of contention between Israeli settlers and the Palestinians in part because Abraham is buried there, in the Tomb of the Patriarchs.

Public interest in most of the Middle East was slight at that time; the Arab-Israeli conflict was all that people were interested in and that was not my specialty.

If you look at military and intelligence positions from the 1950s, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has always been against American national interests.

I know the power of the Israeli lobby and the other lobbies, but we need a foreign policy that puts our own country first.

As prime minister, I was the Israeli leader who walked the greatest distance in his offers to the Palestinians.

A broadsheet obituarist once pointed out to me that veteran soldiers die by rank. First to go are the generals, admirals and air marshals, then the brigadiers, then a bit of a gap and the colonels and wing commanders and passed-over majors, then a steady trickle of captains and lieutenants. As they get older and rarer, so the soldiers are mythologised and grow ever more heroic, until finally drummer boys and under-age privates are venerated and laurelled with honours like ancient field marshals. There is something touching about that.

State terrorism - and yet the Israeli invasion Goldstone investigated is still commonly referred to as the Gaza War.

In 2008, we began an initiative to outsource projects from our Israeli office to three companies in the Palestinian Territories.

When PLO sniper fire is followed by 14 hours of Israeli bombardment, that's stretching the definition of defensive action too far.

I wanted the Israeli mainstream audience to meet different kinds of Arabs - not just terrorists or politicians - and to listen to their language and their stories.

I think Sharon is anti-Israeli because it's in the interest of Israel to understand the problems of the other side.

I was talking to my friend who's Israeli and she said that from the moment you're born, you're taught to hate the Palestinians. That's it. That's your life. That's what you learn from day one.

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.

The attacks inside Israel are operations we carry out in response to Israeli crimes against our people.

I fundamentally agree with the critical nature of Israeli democracy, which embraces the core notion of free speech.

I became a prime minister within four-and-a-half years, the shortest kind of career ever in Israeli political history.

My biggest goal became to bring the weight of and the voice of the Arabs into the Israeli political sphere.

The Israeli public has been brainwashed into believing that its global isolation stems from delegitimization and anti-Semitism.

The wise Jewish Israeli must work with the moderate Muslim and the Christian leader of the free world against the crazy Muslims.

Trying to turn the Congress the President on the Iran deal, - it`s one thing to do that - it`s a giant moment in Israeli politics to decide to do that.

Much of what has gone wrong in the pursuit of Arab-Israeli peace is due to a lack of strong leadership, primarily among the Palestinians.