I am proud to be the president of the state of Israel.
Israel deserves America's friendship in reality - not just in rhetoric.
I am not afraid to appear in Israel, although when I come to a place like Israel, I know it's not a picnic by the Thames. I am aware of the tension and it saddens me.
If Bush had gone into Iraq for cynical reasons, we could cut our losses now. What's frightening is that he did it for ideological reasons, and therefore he's not going to get out. So it isn't ultimately about oil or about Israel, it's about a belief.
Controlling the master narrative of Israel means vigilantly controlling the narrative about Palestine.
I find it exciting to get any historical material from the ground. As you know, I love to put ancient Israel and its literature into their ancient contexts. And to rebuild - that is, to me, a very exciting historical task.
I'm not a single-issue person, but I spend so much time on Israel because it is so unfairly condemned around the world.
Second point is no one here could predict or know that Israel was involved or started producing the hydrogen bomb - the most advanced and powerful atomic bomb that can kill millions of people.
I was with a folk trio back in '63 and '64, and we traveled all across North Africa, Israel, and Europe.
With the same firmness with which I say that Iran represents a danger I tell Israel that you cannot and must not think of launching a pre-emptive attack because it would set the whole Middle East and the whole world on fire for who knows how many decades.
I'm going to Washington on a fateful, even historic, mission. I feel that I am an emissary of all Israel's citizens, even those who do not agree with me, and of the entire Jewish people
We shall try to spirit the penniless population across the border by procuring employment for it in the transit countries, while denying it any employment in our own country. . . . expropriation and the removal of the poor must be carried out discreetly and circumspectly.
The accomplishment of a world without America and Israel is both possible and feasible.
As someone who was born in Israel, you're put in a position of defending Israel because you know how much is at stake.
Virtually all informed observers agree that a fair and equitable resolution of the plight of the Palestinians would considerably weaken the anger and hatred of Israel and the US in the Arab and Muslim worlds - and far beyond, as international polls reveal. Such an agreement is surely within reach, if the US and Israel depart from their long-standing rejectionism.
We've always had a dual role in the region - friend of Israel, and honest broker. We've given up the honest broker role completely.
The Arabs of the land of Israel [ Palestinians] have only one functionleft to them -- to run away.
Don't touch the ark of God! It is the God of Israel who is wounding people with regards to their sin. Do NOT comfort the soul that God is breaking.
Of all the commandments, which is the most important?” “The most important one,” answered Jesus, “is this: ‘Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one. Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.
And when I'd be reporting in Israel, Palestinians would say, the Jews they're not like us, and the Jews would say the same things about the Palestinians, they don't want what we want. And I never bought it as a reporter and I don't buy it as a novelist. I think, you know, the sound of somebody crying for their lost child sounds the same.