Israel Quotes

I will continue to believe that Israel's security is paramount.

I never thought that Syria and Israel should engage in a violent confrontation because I don't think that there is any particular interest for any of us to do it.

In Israel we tend to be carried away by our emotions.

Israel always has to be in a position to defend itself against any adversary and against any threat of any kind.

Peace is important for Israel.

Israel has always been and must always be America's strongest ally.

Isaac and I are going to Israel to ride for peace enviromental justice and a safer world for us all.

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

I would like Israel to be a Jewish state, and therefore not to annex over 2 million Palestinians who live in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip to Israel, which will make Israel a bi-national state.

I am a supporter of the state of Israel.

The people of Israel are entitled, as is any other nation, to live in peace and safety.

Israel has a sizeable nuclear arsenal and could retaliate if it were attacked.

To the extent that Israel does face threats, like from say Hamas or Hezbollah, those are threats that do not jeopardise Israel's existence.

I think Israel will think one thousands times before invading Gaza.

Israel, as the Jewish state, must disappear from the map.

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

Well, I grew up between Holland and Israel and then moved to France when I was eleven.

If I wasn't going to live in Israel, I had to live in New York.

It's always convenient for certain people to heap accusations on Israel.

We are dealing with treachery and threats, which accompanied the establishment of Israel.

It would be a mistake to link anything that Israel does to a certain circumstance. And it is a mistake to feel comfortable in any circumstance just because Israel did not act on it.

It should be known that Israel is based on treachery.

None of us and none of the Arabs trust Israel.

Since its very inception, Israel has been a threat.

My conviction is that the best strategy to defend the West is to defend Israel.

The harm done to Israel is damage done to the West. And delegitimizing Israel is a delegitimization of the West.

In Israel, generally speaking, politics is much more familiar than any other place. We all know each other.

As Prime Minister of Israel, I will introduce a bill into the Knesset that will simply pay the Arabs not to shoot at the Jews.

I am a Zionist, an ardent supporter of Israel, its defender when I deem Israel to be right and its critic when I deem it to be wrong.

I am not, and have never been, in favor of boycotting Israel.

All the other members of the U.N. were admitted, at the outset or subsequently, but Israel was created by the U.N. as a Jewish state, on the motion of Stalin's ambassador, seconded by President Truman's.

Israel expanded beyond its original boundaries only because the Arab powers attacked Israel and the U.N. demarcation unsuccessfully in 1948. The endless caterwauling about the 1967 borders is rubbish.

Given the genocidal belligerence of Iranian threats against Israel, it is hard to take issue with Israel's right to preemptive self-defense.

We have no stronger ally anywhere in the world than Israel.

Each and every day, Israel's very existence is at stake.

I think some of this fascination with the 'Arab Spring' is just a grand experiment with Israel's survival.

I was with a folk trio back in '63 and '64, and we traveled all across North Africa, Israel, and Europe.

There is little doubt that Iran is on a mission to rebuild its nuclear weapons and use that capability to wreak havoc and destruction on Israel and others throughout the world.

The government of Israel doesn't like the kinds of things I say, which puts them into the same category as every other government in the world.

Through these adversities, Israel has endured with continued strength, conviction, and faith.

I went to Israel when the missiles were falling there.

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

And the Zionists have used the Holocaust as a weapon to deny the rights of the Palestinians and to cover-up the crimes of Israel.

Everyone should unconditionally accept that Israel is an indispensable element of the Middle Eastern mosaic.

You still can't find Israel on a map of the Middle East in a Palestinian schoolbook.

I don't feel particularly attached to Israel - 'nationalism,' as Noam Chomsky said, 'is not my cup of tea' - but I feel no particular need to demonize it.

The U.S. and Israel have been slaughtering the Palestinians, just slaughtering them, for years. Robbing them and slaughtering them.

In America, unlike England, unlike Israel, unlike Japan, other democracies, we have elections that have staggered terms.

In fact, the Iraqi foreign minister admitted in March 2003 that Iraqi funds were sent to families of Palestinian suicide bombers who attacked and killed innocent Israeli citizens, and also 12 Americans in Israel in 2003.

Hitler had this deal where he was supposed to make it rough on them so they would all get out and migrate to Israel because they needed people there to fight the Arabs.

In Israel, in order to be a realist you must believe in miracles.

Which Israel should we recognize? The Israel of 1917; the Israel of 1936; the Israel of 1948; the Israel of 1956; or the Israel of 1967? Which borders and which Israel? Israel has to recognize first the Palestinian state and its borders and then we will know what we are talking about.

The only thing chicken about Israel is their soup.

A number of people who have supported me on the border fence in the U.S. have observed the fences in Israel and their effectiveness.

It does irritate me when I am described as a controversialist and commentator on Israel.

Those who liberated the South from Israel must show allegiance to Lebanon.

The one thing that I'm absolutely sure about is that the people of Gaza aren't going anywhere. And neither are the people of Israel.

The Psalms, the anthology of the hymns of Israel, are still used by Christians.

Given the events of even the 19th century, Zionism was inevitable. Given the events of the 20th century, Israel was inevitable.

I don't have any interest to go to Israel. I don't think I'd ever have a cause to go.

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.

The most important sign in Matthew has to be the restoration of the Jews to the land in the rebirth of Israel.

I am not against Israel, I am against Zionists.

Jerusalem Syndrome is actually a rare psychological condition that occurs to some visitors to the Middle East. They get to Israel and just snap.

Then the administration tied it in to the regional dispute between Israel and its enemies, as if that's about international terrorism. No, it's not.

And then there's Israel - a lot of people support Israel, and it's important to Israel to take out Iraq. So it's all mixed together. It's a combination of motives.

What I was doing was servicing the needs of my constituents and I was not allowed to do that because I did not toe the line on U.S. policy for Israel.

We do not rejoice in victories. We rejoice when a new kind of cotton is grown and when strawberries bloom in Israel.

I have always thought that Israel, as an independent and sovereign nation, had a right to defend itself.

Everyone who supports Israel is a Zionist.

I never believed that Israel had the right to exist at all.

Israel's doors are open to collaboration with Bulgaria.

Look, Israel doesn't intend to introduce nuclear weapons, but if people are afraid that we have them, why not? It's a deterrent.

You know, I get much more Jewish in Israel because I like the way that religion is done there.

I'm evangelical.

You have to show Israel that it's not going to be forced to do things it doesn't want to do and can't do.

Israel is the only democracy in the Middle East.

Yes, Israel's our ally. But, are the Palestinians our enemy? No, they are not.