Notable Quotes

Jerusalem in US Politics

{image_1}During a speech to the American Israel Public Affairs Council (AIPAC), a US pro-Israeli lobby group, on June 4, US Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama said that Jerusalem “will remain the capital of Israel, and it must remain undivided.”

More Rhetoric from Iran

“Those who think they can revive the stinking corpse of the usurping and fake Israeli regime by throwing a birthday party are seriously mistaken…Today the reason for the Zionist regime’s existence is questioned, and this regime is on its way to annihilation…[Israel] has reached the end like a dead rat after being slapped by the Lebanese [in reference to the 2006 Second Lebanon War].”

Israel—Don’t Mess with Us!

{image_1} “An Iranian attack will prompt a severe reaction from Israel, which will destroy the Iranian nation…Teheran is definitely aware of our strength. Even so, they are teasing us with their alliances with Syria and Hizbullah and supplying them with many weapons, and we have to deal with that.”

—National Infrastructures Minister Binyamin Ben-Eliezer, April 7, 2008

“No Terrorist Country alongside Israel”

{image_1} Israel Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni threatened a stalemate in the peace process if a Palestinian unity government is formed that does not recognize the right of Israel to exist. The comments came after Yemen attempted to restart dialogue between the Gazan government of Hamas and the Palestinian Authority led by Fatah.

“We Will Eliminate Israel”

{image_1} “The time has come to see the weakness and collapse of the Zionist regime and its supporters. They are doing everything in order to save it, but they will not succeed.

Russian Pamphlets: Jews Use Children’s Blood in Matzot

{image_1} Hundreds of anti-Semitic pamphlets were distributed in the Russian city of Novosibirsk warning residents of a supposed Jewish practice of kidnapping children to use their blood for Passover matzot [unleavened bread plural]. “Beware Russian parents. Keep watch over your children before the coming of April 2008, the Jewish holiday of Passover. These disgusting people still engage in ritual practice to their gods. They kidnap small children and remove some of their blood and use it to prepare their holy food [matzah]. They throw the bodies [of the children] out in garbage dumps,” the notices read.

“Iran’s not Stupid”

{image_1} “I think this is more [of a] political slogan than a real political decision to destroy Israel. I don’t think their political leadership is so stupid as to think they can do this [destroy Israel]. Iran wants to lead an international movement against the American presence in the region. They want to be one of the leaders, or maybe the most important leader, in the Muslim world. They need some strong political slogans. One of them [relates] to Israel.”

Notable Quotes

{image_1}Theodor Herzl
Founder of modern political Zionism

“Were I to sum up the Basel Congress [First Zionist Congress in Switzerland in 1897] in a word…it would be this: ‘At Basel, I founded the Jewish State.’ If I said this out loud today, I would be answered by universal laughter. If not in 5 years, certainly in 50, everyone will know it.”

—Journal entry, September 3, 1897

Enemy at the Gates

Palestinians Will Never Recognize Israel as a Jewish State

Just weeks before the Bush administration convened its Annapolis conference on the creation of Palestine, one of the PLO [Palestine Liberation Organization]/PA’s [Palestinian Authority’s] most senior spokesman, Saeb Erekat, declared that the “Palestinians” will never recognize Israel as a Jewish state. The words shone light on a central component of the deceptive, and usually hidden, PLO strategy whose end goal has always been the eradication of a sovereign Jewish state from the Muslim Middle East.

Boasts and Threats from the Other Side

{image_1}“Muslims Are Masters of the World”

“The Muslims and their societies are more advanced and more sublime than the West and its societies…are more perfect in value system and humanity. The fact that there are those who believe that these are Western values—it is a delusion and false, since the Muslims are masters of the world, its leaders and teachers, even if the West rejects this.”