All Quotes

Israel is a country that respects freedom - freedom of assembly, freedom of speech and freedom of worship.
‐‐ George Pataki

Israel is a mishmash of other cultures. It's like New Orleans; it's a meltdown of other cultures.
‐‐ Anat Cohen

Israel is a piece of real estate that neither Jew or Arab will let go of; neither will leave these shores. And so they will have to learn to live together.
‐‐ Zubin Mehta

Israel is a pretty crazy state.
‐‐ Noam Chomsky

Israel is a society governed by the rule of law.
‐‐ Ariel Sharon

Israel is a wonderful country. It's a beautiful country. It is ours. But it is a country with 10,000 problems that we have to solve and deal.
‐‐ Ariel Sharon

Israel is a wonderful place to be an artist - a place where imagination flourishes. Israeli culture is refreshingly avant garde - making films, music, performance art and visual art that continues to push the envelope, inspire and empower.
‐‐ Ryan Kavanaugh

Israel is an independent country with a large army, and it has the ability to do what it thinks is right.
‐‐ Ariel Sharon

Israel is becoming a fortress. Fences along the borders with Egypt, Lebanon, and Syria.
‐‐ Richard Engel

Israel is duty-bound to take in refugees.
‐‐ Isaac Herzog

Israel is following policies which maximise its security threats... policies which choose expansion over security... policies which lead to their moral degradation, their isolation, their delegitimation, as they call it now, and very likely ultimate destruction. That's not impossible.
‐‐ Noam Chomsky

Israel is grateful that America believes in us.
‐‐ Ehud Olmert

Israel is guilty of apartheid and persecution of the Palestinian people, both inside Israel and also in the Occupied Territories.
‐‐ Alice Walker

Israel is much more effective when the Israelis are convinced that we are on the moral high ground: that we are acting not just out of might, but also out of right.
‐‐ Ehud Barak

Israel is my past. My two boys are my future.
‐‐ Shai Agassi

Israel is not the safest place in the world for Jews. Melbourne in Australia is better. Teaneck, New Jersey, is safer.
‐‐ Naftali Bennett

Israel is not Vegas, and it will not be.
‐‐ Naftali Bennett

Israel is now sustaining a war for its own existence. A nation defending its citizens against terrorist bombings and a military and diplomatic onslaught by an array of Arab foes is practicing survival, not genocide.
‐‐ Jack Schwartz

Israel is one of the easiest places to play ball. When I say easy I am referring to the easy lifestyle an athlete has while in Israel. It's very easy to get around the country, because it's so small.
‐‐ Michael Kennedy

Israel is our strongest, most reliable ally in the Middle East. Of course, we're their most reliable ally, too.
‐‐ Ben Stein

Israel is part of the free world led by the United States, no matter what.
‐‐ Tzipi Livni

Israel is prepared for a compromise. The majority of Israelis understand this compromise will be serious, will be meaningful, and will be painful.
‐‐ Ehud Olmert

Israel is proud to be Jordan's partner and to stand at Jordan's side in promoting stability and quiet to our entire region.
‐‐ Reuven Rivlin

Israel is shutting out the Arab world and shutting itself in.
‐‐ Richard Engel

Israel is slightly smaller than New Jersey. Moses in effect led the tribes of Israel out of the District of Columbia, parted Chesapeake Bay near Annapolis, and wandered for forty years in Delaware.
‐‐ P. J. O'Rourke

Israel is so tiny. It's, you know, a little less than the length of Manhattan, without the West Bank, without Judea and Samaria.
‐‐ Benjamin Netanyahu

Israel is stronger than all those who curse it.
‐‐ Naftali Bennett

Israel is the agent and surrogate of the United States and as such is treated entirely differently from every other country in the region. How can anyone expect Iran to accept that it is right for Israel to have nuclear weapons while itself being disallowed?
‐‐ Martin Jacques

Israel is the canary in the mine. What happens to Israel will eventually happen to America itself.
‐‐ David Horowitz

Israel is the country of my birth. When I come here, I feel I'm coming home.
‐‐ Itzhak Perlman

Israel is the only country in the Middle East where Arabs can be elected to the parliament in a democratic election.
‐‐ Adam Michnik

Israel is the only country in the world that is ready to make compromises - even though it did not lose any wars.
‐‐ Ariel Sharon

Israel is the only democracy in the Middle East.
‐‐ Jack Schwartz

Israel is the only democracy in this part of the world.
‐‐ Ariel Sharon

Israel is the only democratic country in the Middle East.
‐‐ Eli Yishai

Israel is the strongest nation in the Middle East, but we have to apply our strength wisely.
‐‐ Ehud Barak

Israel is the vanguard of the free world against the Islamic terrorism of ISIS, Hezbollah, Hamas, and Iran.
‐‐ Naftali Bennett

Israel is thirsting for water, and Turkey is overflowing with it.
‐‐ Stephen Kinzer

Israel is under a dual terrorist attack, from within and from without. And terrorism from within is always more dangerous than terrorism from without.
‐‐ Avigdor Lieberman

Israel knew that there was no greater gift than to be given God's name, but that gift was a frightening reality that threatened to consume her. Israel, who would be tempted by the idolatrous presumption she possessed God's name, rightly never forgot she could not say God's name.
‐‐ Stanley Hauerwas

Israel lost its war. Will Assad's enemies lose, too?
‐‐ Robert Fisk

Israel lost their power to intimidate during the second war with Lebanon.
‐‐ Hassan Nasrallah

Israel made peace with Egypt, the largest Arab State. There are militant Islamists there, but there is also law. There are agreements and also defense arrangements there.
‐‐ Ayman Odeh

Israel may have the right to put others on trial, but certainly no one has the right to put the Jewish people and the State of Israel on trial.
‐‐ Ariel Sharon

Israel must take decisions that are good to Israel. We must not try to satisfy anyone else, including our closest ally, the United States of America.
‐‐ Danny Danon

Israel needs to change direction, and this is not just political. We're becoming more closed-in, more isolated, more scared. Those who talk tough are making the State of Israel very weak, very isolated - very Jewish, in the Diaspora-sense, in that 'everyone is against us.' We need to get out of this.
‐‐ Tzipi Livni

Israel needs to separate from Netanyahu in order to separate from the Palestinians.
‐‐ Isaac Herzog

Israel never interferes in the domestic issues of any other country. It's not our matter; it's not our policy.
‐‐ Avigdor Lieberman

Israel never targets civilians deliberately, period.
‐‐ Naftali Bennett