Notable Quotes

The State of Israel

{image_1} “The State of Israel is strong, secure, and prepared. We will allow no one to shed doubt on our existence. We are capable of defending ourselves in any situation, and we will do so. We will not allow our enemies to dare.”

Arabs Speak:No Jewish State

{image_1} “I say this clearly: I do not accept the Jewish State.”

Jimmy Carter: A Surprising Turnaround

“This particular settlement area [the Etzion Bloc on the road between Bethlehem and Hebron with 15,000 Israelis] is not one that I envision ever being abandoned or changed over into Palestinian territory…I have been very fortunate in learning a perspective that I didn’t have…I came to learn. I’ve done more listening than I have talking. The listening has been very valuable to me.”

Netanyahu Stands Strong

{image_1}“Those who think that the continued enmity toward Israel is a product of our presence in Judea,Samaria andGaza, is confusing cause and consequence.  The attacks against us began in the 1920s, escalated in 1948, continued with the fedayeen [Arab “freedom fighters”] attacks in the 1950s, and climaxed in 1967, on the eve of the Six Day War, in an attempt to tighten a noose around the neck of the State of Israel.  All this occurred during the 50 years before a single Israeli soldier ever set foot in Judea and Samaria…

Israelis Answer: We’re Not Running Away

{image_1}”We do not want war, but if war is forced on us, I suggest to our friends and enemies, as one, to be on the right side, on our side, on the side that has always won and will always win…For 61 years now, we have been burying our children, and there is no end in sight. This year still, our existence is under threat. From near and far, they rise to destroy us—and to their astonishment, we are not frightened. We are not running away from the fight.”

Iran and Nuclear Weapons—Not Acceptable

{image_1}ldquo;You don’t want a messianic apocalyptic cult controlling atomic bombs. When the wide-eyed believer gets hold of the reins of power and the weapons of mass death, then the whole world should start worrying, and that is what is happening in Iran.”

“Hitler” Speaks Persian

{image_1}“73 years after the Berlin Olympics, yesterday [April 20] the world witnessed the return of Adolf Hitler. This time he has a beard and speaks Persian.”

Turkish Jews Fearful

{image_1} A Jewish woman living in Istanbul writes of difficulties faced by Jews following rising anti-Semitism in Turkey in wake of Gaza op.

“Me and my friends in the Jewish community in Istanbul are scared to give out our names these days, fearing it might hurt us. We don’t want to be identified as Jews.

After the Gaza War

{image_1} “For the Palestinian people, death became an industry, at which women excel and so do all people on this land; the elderly excel, the Jihad fighters excel, and the children excel. Accordingly [Palestinians] created a human shield of women, children, the elderly, and Jihad fighters against the Zionist bombing machine, as if they were saying to the Zionist enemy, ‘We desire death as you desire life.’”

—Fathi Hamad, Hamas representative, as broadcast on Hamas’s Al-Aqsa TV prior to the conflict

Surprising Admission

{image_1} “What will happen in the future, we shall not repeat the wrongs we did in leaving Gaza. It should have been done otherwise. I was for leaving Gaza. I feel myself as one of the persons mistaken…My problem is less whom to entrust with the role of prime minister but rather the candidate’s policies. The world is undergoing new situations and the new government must adjust its policies accordingly. I do not disqualify any Israeli who was duly elected.”