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If you will not stand with Israel and the Jews, then I will not stand with you. -- Ted Cruz
The banding together by the nations of the world against Israel is the guarantee that their time of destruction is near and the final redemption of the Jew at hand. -- Meir Kahane
Being from Israel and a Jew is complex already, but with France, there is a freedom and a mix of culture. I have met musicians from all over the world. -- Yael Naim
I think a lot of Jews make Israel the centerpiece of their Judaism. It becomes the centerpiece of their Jewish existence and of their faith. I have always felt that that's not for me. -- David Gregory
Throughout its history, the members of Shearith Israel have observed Thanksgiving by reciting in synagogue the same psalms of praise and gratitude sung by Jews all over the world on festive days like Hanukkah. -- Meir Soloveichik
To the Christian Church, the destruction of the Temple served as an ultimate sign that the Jews were no longer God's chosen people, divine favor having now been transferred to a newer and better Israel. -- Meir Soloveichik
We plan to eliminate the state of Israel and establish a purely Palestinian state. We will make life unbearable for Jews by psychological warfare and population explosion. We Palestinians will take over everything, including all of Jerusalem. -- Yasser Arafat
Modernity has been largely shaped for Jews by three momentous experiences: the acquisition of citizenship by individual Jews in secular nation-states, the destruction of one-third of Jewry in the Holocaust, and the founding of the State of Israel. -- David Novak
Israel of the coastal plain, where eight out of ten Israeli Jews live far removed from the occupied territories, from the fiery Jerusalem, from the religious and nationalistic conflicts, is unknown to the outside world, almost unknown to itself. -- Amos Oz
Israel's creation was politically amazing and caused by a number of unusual events. And I understand. For centuries, Jews endured horrible suffering, and like other people, deserve the right to self-determination, but the way Israel is going now frightens me. Jews make awkward colonial overlords. -- Harvey Pekar
People think of Jews as the Woody Allen stereotype, the nebbishy kind of thing, but that's not the kind of Jews I know. I know plenty of Israelis and plenty of tough guys that are Jewish. So, I think it makes sense that Jews play metal. -- Scott Ian
For those who have envisioned the State of Israel to be a democracy, which although primarily a Jewish polity for Jews is one in which non-Jews can become citizens and enjoy equal civil rights with the Jewish majority, the question of natural law is the question of human rights. -- David Novak
As a Jew, I recognize the importance of Israel historically, liturgically: its place in our history and in our sacred texts. I fully recognize and appreciate that. I just think that, for me, a sole focus on Israel gets in the way of the pursuit of a relationship with God and a more spiritual existence within Judaism. -- David Gregory
I lived through many battles - the 1973, I was young; in 1982 with the Israeli invasions, and 2006 between Hezbollah and Israel. Before I emigrated to the States in '83, I had my own very black and white views of the Israelis and the Jews in general. But you start to understand that no matter what you think, there are two perspectives. -- Ziad Doueiri
I am an American Jew and aware of the sensitivities involved in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. -- Steven Spielberg
Jewish status is defined by the divine election of Israel and his descendants. One does not become a Jew by one's own volition. -- David Novak
Israel has created a new image of the Jew in the world - the image of a working and an intellectual people, of a people that can fight with heroism. -- David Ben-Gurion
Israel has created a new image of the Jew in the world - the image of a working and an intellectual people, of a people that can fight with heroism. -- David Ben-Gurion
Jews, blacks and homosexuals are despised by the Christian and Communist majorities of East and West. Also, as a result of the invention of Israel, Jews can now count on the hatred of the Islamic world. -- Gore Vidal
Our Christian conviction is that Christ is also the messiah of Israel. Certainly it is in the hands of God how and when the unification of Jews and Christians into the people of God will take place. -- Pope Benedict XVI
Israel today is bad for the Jews, -- Tony Judt
Those who hate Israel hate America. Those who hate Jews hate Christians. -- Ted Cruz
If the Palestinians took up arms, went into Israel and killed all the Jews, it'd be alright -- Professor Griff
Most American media outlets that are controlled by Jews seem to be reflexively, or at least habitually, anti-Israel. -- Conrad Black
If they (Jews) all gather in Israel, it will save us the trouble of going after them worldwide. -- Hassan Nasrallah
The role of Jews who write in both the Jewish and [American] general press is to defend Israel. -- Norman Podhoretz
When are American Jews going to realize that the Republican Party is far better for Israel than the Democrats? -- Ben Stein
I`m very proud to be the prime minister of all of Israel`s citizens, Arabs and Jews alike. -- Benjamin Netanyahu
I am not a lover of Israel, of course. I have no reason to be. But I don't hate Jews. -- Mahmoud Darwish
Israel has been a stage on which American Jews have played out their fantasies of toughness - often from Martha's Vineyard. -- Norman Finkelstein
Without Hitler, the State of Israel probably would not exist today. To that extent he was probably the Jews' greatest friend. -- David Irving
In both Israel and America, Jews have experienced unparalleled freedoms, achieved great economic success, and exercised appropriate degrees of political power. -- Meir Soloveichik
The most important sign in Matthew has to be the restoration of the Jews to the land in the rebirth of Israel. -- Hal Lindsey
The Jews are trying to destroy all other cultures...as a survival mechanism...the only Nazi country in the world is Israel. -- David Duke
Israel is the only place on earth where Jews have the possibility to shape public life according to their own traditional ideals. -- Albert Einstein
Israel being condemned by the EU, which 66 years ago watched with glee as its Jews were being mass murdered. That is pretty rich. -- Ben Stein
Every Israeli government since 1967, of left or right, has asserted that Jerusalem is Israel's capital and has allowed Israeli Jews to build there. -- Elliott Abrams
Gaza will become part of sovereign Israel and will be populated by Jews. This will also serve to ease the housing crisis in Israel -- Moshe Feiglin
The argument that all Jews have a heartfelt investment in the state of Israel is untrue. Some have a heartfelt investment in corned beef sandwiches. -- Judith Butler
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. -- Roseanne Barr
The Jews took Israel from the Arabs after the Arabs had lived there for a thousand years. Israel, like South Africa, is an apartheid state. -- Hendrik Verwoerd
As long as I'm needed. I'll be ready to serve. I look forward with optimism. We need the Jews here. Move to Israel! Move to Israel! -- Ariel Sharon
Surely it is time for Jews, worried over the huge growth of Arabs in Israel, to consider finishing the exchange of populations that began 35 years ago. -- Meir Kahane
Just as we send young American Jews to Israel through the Birthright program, we need to also consider a 'reverse Birthright' for Israeli kids to come see America. -- Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
Not all Modern Orthodox Jews, at the present juncture, identify with what the Israeli government does. In Israel many religious Zionists strongly oppose the government because of the disengagement. -- Norman Lamm
If the Arabs put down their weapons today, there would be no more â??violence. If the Jews put â??down their weapons â??today, there would be noï»¿ â??more Israel'â?? -- Benjamin Netanyahu
Without the support of American Jews, Israel would shrink to its normal size. -- Israel Shamir

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