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Jerusalem is united, will never be divided again. -- Yitzhak Rabin
But always I regarded myself as one who was born in Jerusalem. -- Shmuel Yosef Agnon
The victory march will continue until the Palestinian flag flies in Jerusalem and in all of Palestine. -- Yasser Arafat
The whole religious complexion of the modern world is due to the absence from Jerusalem of a lunatic asylum. -- Thomas Paine
The Palestinian Rifle is ready and we will aim it if they try to prevent us from praying in Jerusalem. -- Yasser Arafat
The view of Jerusalem is the history of the world; it is more, it is the history of earth and of heaven. -- Benjamin Disraeli
I am 73 years old. I was born in Jerusalem. I'm the first prime minister of Israel to be born here. I am the only former general to become a prime minister. -- Yitzhak Rabin
First of all, Arafat is wrong. Jerusalem is Israel's capital, will never be divided, and will remain the capital of the State of Israel, the capital of the Jewish people, for ever and ever. -- Benjamin Netanyahu
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
A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art. -- Benjamin Disraeli
I wanted to make Jerusalem as feature film. But we couldn't finance it only through theatrical release, we couldn't get all the money we needed. We had to get some money from television. So we said, ok, let's do it both ways. So we did it in four parts. -- Bille August
What has Athens to do with Jerusalem. -- Tertullian
What has Athens to do with Jerusalem? -- Tertullian
I come to Jerusalem. There, the sky is blue and memory becomes clear. -- Menachem Begin
I feel most strongly about Jerusalem, because architects ultimately have to address that city. -- Ben Nicholson
You ought to let the Jews have Jerusalem; it was they who made it famous. -- Winston Churchill
After all my possessions had been burned, God gave me the wisdom to return to Jerusalem. -- Shmuel Yosef Agnon
In the din and tumult of the age, the still small voice of Jerusalem remains our only music. -- Israel Zangwill
I would never call Jerusalem beautiful or comfortable or consoling. But there's something about it that you can't turn away from. -- Pico Iyer
I never thought I'd live to see the day that an American administration would denounce the state of Israel for rebuilding Jerusalem. -- Mike Pence
Jerusalem Syndrome is actually a rare psychological condition that occurs to some visitors to the Middle East. They get to Israel and just snap. -- Marc Maron
Jerusalem is a festival and a lamentation. Its song is a sigh across the ages, a delicate, robust, mournful psalm at the great junction of spiritual cultures. -- David K. Shipler
I don't think the area of Jerusalem should be part of a Jewish state; it belongs to all people, to Christians and Muslims and the Jewish people. -- Patti Smith
I returned to Jerusalem, and it is by virtue of Jerusalem that I have written all that God has put into my heart and into my pen. -- Shmuel Yosef Agnon
Perhaps areas of Israel where current large Palestinian populations and demographic realities exist could be exchanged for Israeli expansion into the West Bank to include most of East Jerusalem -- Geraldo Rivera
Where are the Muslim people's sponsors? Where are its kings? Where are its leaders? The Muslim people is calling upon you, Jerusalem is appealing to you, will anyone answer? -- Ahmed Yassin
We promise you that we will not cede a single part of Palestine, we will not cede Jerusalem, we will continue to fight and we will not lay down our arms. -- Ismail Haniyeh
The entrance into Jerusalem has all the elements of the theatre of the absurd: the poor king; truth comes riding on a donkey; symbolic actions - even parading without a permit! -- David Kirk
As a result of the historic catastrophe in which Titus of Rome destroyed Jerusalem and Israel was exiled from its land, I was born in one of the cities of the Exile. -- Shmuel Yosef Agnon
If they had connived a scheme, and Christ had not been raised from the dead, where would have been the hardest place on the face of the earth to convince anyone? In Jerusalem. -- Josh McDowell
I often hear them accuse Israel of Judaizing Jerusalem. That's like accusing America of Americanizing Washington, or the British of Anglicizing London. You know why we're called 'Jews'? Because we come from Judea. -- Benjamin Netanyahu
Now, my father Matthias was not only eminent on account of is nobility, but had a higher commendation on account of his righteousness, and was in great reputation in Jerusalem, the greatest city we have. -- Flavius Josephus
When General Allenby conquered Jerusalem during World War I, he was hailed in the American press as Richard the Lion-Hearted, who had at last won the Crusades and driven the pagans out of the Holy Land. -- Noam Chomsky
Most of the approaches to peace between Israel and the Palestinians, have been directed at trying to resolve the most complex problems, like refugees and Jerusalem, which is akin to building the pyramid from the top down. -- Benjamin Netanyahu
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
Wow, bad news. Mr. Obama now hates Israel because the Israelis want to build 1,600 apartments in their own capital city, Jerusalem. Russia hates Israel, too. So do the Europeans. So does Ban Ki-moon, a Korean who is secretary-general of the UN. -- Ben Stein
We are pushing towards the dream of having our independent state with Jerusalem as its capital. If there is a real project that aims to resolve the Palestinian cause on establishing a Palestinian state on 1967 borders, under full Palestinian sovereignty, we will support it. -- Ismail Haniyeh
Jerusalem is the capital of the Palestinian state. -- Yasser Arafat
Jerusalem meant one thing for Jesus: certain death. -- John Piper
The Old City of Jerusalem is in our hands. -- Moshe Dayan
Jerusalem is a port city on the shore of eternity. -- Yehuda Amichai
When will Labour learn that you cannot build Jerusalem in Brussels. -- Margaret Thatcher
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Martyrs, martyrs, martyrs,... we want a million martyrs to march on Jerusalem. -- Yasser Arafat
Jerusalem will remain the capital of Israel, and it must remain undivided. -- Barack Obama
Jerusalem is old, Jerusalem is new, Jerusalem can hold Moslem, Christian, Jew. -- Don McLean
Pray for the peace of Jerusalem and thine own soul shall be refreshed. -- Charles Spurgeon
After all, I think Jerusalem is part of the, of the world's heritage. -- King Hussein
I look at Jerusalem as being a beacon for the three monotheistic religions. -- Abdallah II of Jordan
I look at Jerusalem as being a beacon for the three monotheistic religions. -- Abdallah II of Jordan
Jerusalem is a time bomb that I fear is just waiting to go off. -- Abdallah II
The prophet Zechariah warns that any nation that touches Jerusalem will be cut off. -- David Wilkerson
I sometimes think of Las Vegas as the Jerusalem of chance. A holy city. -- Frank Scoblete
Jerusalem is a time bomb that I fear is just waiting to go off. -- Abdallah II
Endeavor to create heaven on earth and turn your heart into the new Jerusalem -- Bangambiki Habyarimana
It is not being in Jerusalem, but living a good life there that is praiseworthy. -- St. Jerome
Anyone who relinquishes a single inch of Jerusalem is neither an Arab nor a Muslim. -- Yasser Arafat
I always wanted to open a delicatessen in Jerusalem and call it 'Cheeses of Nazareth'. -- Sandi Toksvig
We will make the lives of the infidels hell - millions of martyrs marching on Jerusalem. -- Yasser Arafat
Israel must withdraw from Jerusalem so that it becomes the capital of a state of Palestine. -- Yasser Arafat
Jerusalem has been our capital for 3,000 years and it's going to be our capital for eternity -- Naftali Bennett
Jerusalem the golden, with milk and honey blessed, beneath thy contemplation sink heart and voice oppressed. -- John Mason Neale
The goal is the developed Kingdom of God, the New Jerusalem, a world order under God's law. -- R.J. Rushdoony
Israel's days without Jerusalem, Judea and Samaria and the Gaza Strip are gone and will not return. -- Yitzhak Shamir
Who cares about that stuff? This is America, not Jerusalem. I'm an American. Let Harry be a Jew. -- Arnold Rothstein
Here (Jerusalem), tears do not weaken the eyes, they only polish and shine the hardness of faces like stone. -- Yehuda Amichai
The Book of Revelation is a description of one path to the New Jerusalem, but this scenario is not inevitable. -- Barbara Marx Hubbard
Last Vegas is a counterfeit version of the New Jerusalem. And it shares something of the glorious reality that it mocks. -- Richard J. Mouw
From here [the Gaza withdrawal], our people begin the march towards establishing an independent Palestinian state with Jerusalem as its capital -- Mahmoud Abbas
Arab sovereignty in Jerusalem just cannot be. This city will not be divided-not half and half, not 60-40, not 75-25, nothing. -- Golda Meir
The new film I'm shooting in Jerusalem - which is partly why I'm here in Israel - is something I co-wrote. -- Meital Dohan
I found that each time I opened my camera and filmed Jerusalem, its image was overtaking what I wanted to express. -- Danae Elon
Infants, I note with envy, are receptive to enjoyment in a degree not attained by adults this side of the new Jerusalem. -- Margaret Halsey
Olmert made a proposal on the governing of Jerusalem that I do not believe his cabinet or the Knesset would have accepted. -- Elliott Abrams
Everybody knows we're entitled to one Jerusalem. History reveals very simply that this is our land from the days of the Bible. -- Jackie Mason
England! awake! awake! awake! Jerusalem thy sister calls! Why wilt thou sleep the sleep of death And close her from thy ancient walls? -- William Blake
I was born in Jerusalem in 1939 to a poor family that shared a rented four-room apartment with two additional families and their children. -- Ada Yonath
The Palestinian state is within our grasp. Soon the Palestinian flag will fly on the walls, the minarets and the cathedrals of Jerusalem. -- Yasser Arafat
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
For me, Jerusalem was united, will be under Israel sovereignty, will be the capital of Israel and the heart of the Jewish people. -- Yitzhak Rabin
To open the Bible is to open a window toward Jerusalem, as Daniel did (6:10), no matter where our exile may have taken us. -- N. T. Wright
The Olivet Discourse is not about the Second Coming of Christ. It is a prophecy of the destruction of Jerusalem in A.D. 70. -- David Chilton
I am the last person who would divide Jerusalem. I have said this many times. I don't plan to discuss any division of Jerusalem. -- Ariel Sharon
Jordan recognizes that east Jerusalem is the capital of the Palestinian state and Jordan rejects foreign sovereignty -- Israeli sovereignty -- over the holy sites -- Yasser Arafat
Jerusalem artichokes have a great affinity with nuts. I love them with chopped walnuts or almonds, lemon juice, garlic, herbs and plenty of olive oil. -- Yotam Ottolenghi
The fields from Islington to Marybone, To Primrose Hill and Saint John's Wood, Were builded over with pillars of gold; And there Jerusalem's pillars stood. -- William Blake
The Amorites founded Jerusalem, they formed the Nordic weft in later Galilee, that is, in the "pagan region" whence some day Jesus was to come. -- Alfred Rosenberg
Born in Jerusalem, Wadie Said went from being a dragoman to a salesman in the United States and thence to a hugely successful businessman in Egypt. -- Penelope Lively
A return to the 1967 lines and the abandonment of the settlements near Jerusalem would be such a psychological trauma for Israel as to endanger its survival. -- Henry A. Kissinger
I give you the end of a golden string,Only wind it into a ball,It will lead you in at Heaven's gateBuilt in Jerusalem's wall. -- William Blake
Why should these Palestinians, who have lived in Jerusalem for hundreds of years, be evicted from their homes so that Jews from Brooklyn can live in them? -- Norman Finkelstein
We believe strongly that the road to peace and two states living side by side does not go through New York, it goes through Jerusalem and Ramallah. -- Hillary Clinton
For me to propose a division of Jerusalem was really terrible. I did it because I reached a conclusion that without which there will not be peace. -- Ehud Olmert
I was born in Jerusalem with a religious background and a rabbi as a father... it was rather poor, but what we did have, we did have books. -- Ada Yonath
Let every Christian, as much as in him lies, engage himself openly and publicly, before all the World, in some mental pursuit for the Building up of Jerusalem. -- William Blake
You can't simply redefine Jerusalem. The Palestinian claim is based on legality, on the international recognition that the situation created by the war in '67 is not valid. -- Hanan Ashrawi
We are committed to free access and free practice, to the members of the other two religions, to the holy shrines in Jerusalem. To the Muslims, to the Christians. -- Yitzhak Rabin
Babylon violated diminishes Alexander; Rome enslaved diminishes Caesar; massacred Jerusalem diminishes Titus. Tyranny follows the tyrant. Woe to the man who leaves behind a shadow that bears his form. -- Victor Hugo
Perhaps areas of Israel where current large Palestinian populations and demographic realities exist could be exchanged for Israeli expansion into the West Bank to include most of East Jerusalem. -- Geraldo Rivera
I am a Christian. He who answers thus has declared everything at once-his country, profession, family; the believer belongs to no city on earth but to the heavenly Jerusalem. -- Saint John Chrysostom
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The Jewish calendar, which is lunar, is a calendar of witness. The Sanhedrin, Jewry's Congress, met in Jerusalem toward the end of every month to wait for the new moon. -- Joshua Cohen
The True's towns, with colorful names like Dry Bend, Jerusalem's Lot, Oree, and Sidewinder, were safe havens, but they never stayed in those places for long; mostly they were migratory. -- Stephen King
I invite President Assad to come to Jerusalem and to speak with me, with our parliament, with whomever he wants to speak in Israel and in the territories among the Palestinians. -- Yitzhak Rabin
Its a matter of principle. If Jews born in Brooklyn have a right to a state in Palestine then Palestinians born in Jerusalem have a right to a state in Palestine. -- Christopher Hitchens
The entrance into Jerusalem has all the elements of the theatre of the absurd: the poor king; truth comes riding on a donkey; symbolic actions - even parading without a permit! -- David Kirk
The resurrection proclamation could not have been maintained in Jerusalem for a single day, for a single hour, if the emptiness of the tomb had not been established as a fact. -- Paul Althaus
I swear to God, I will see [the Palestinian state], whether as a martyr or alive. Please, God, give me the honor of becoming a martyr in the fight for Jerusalem. -- Yasser Arafat
The place of my novels is Israel, almost without exception. All of them take place in Israel - in Jerusalem, in the desert, in the kibbutz, in small towns, in villages. -- Amos Oz
The Romans weren't trying to kill all the Jews, but they did destroy Jewish resistance to Roman rule. Jerusalem was turned into a Roman army camp, and it was a total devastation. -- Elaine Pagels
That can be achieved by termination of Israeli occupation to the territories according to the international resolutions related, so the Palestinian State can be establish with Jerusalem as capital for such State. -- Ali Abdullah Saleh
The Jewish connection to Jerusalem is an ancient and powerful one. Judaism made Jerusalem a holy city over three thousand years ago and through all that time Jews remained steadfast to it. -- Daniel Pipes
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The formula for the parameters of a unilateral solution are: To maximize the number of Jews; to minimize the number of Palestinians; not to withdraw to the 1967 border and not to divide Jerusalem. -- Ehud Olmert
There were only a few shepherds at the first Bethlehem. The ox and the donkey understood more of the first Christmas than the high priests in Jerusalem. And it is the same today. -- Thomas Merton
Vilnius was once known as 'The Jerusalem of Lithuania' because of the number of prayer houses and scholars there; in the first half of the 20th century, it became a center of Yiddish-language scholarship. -- Elizabeth McCracken
Praise the Lord, O England's Jerusalem: and Netherland's Zion, praise ye the Lord! He hath secured your gates, and blessed your possessions with peace, even here, where the threatened torch of war was lighted. -- Peter Stuyvesant
Evangelism was not a program in the Jerusalem church; it was a way of life. The believers' lives and behaviors created such favor with the population of Jerusalem that people we drawn to the Lord. -- David Jeremiah
No man saw the building of the New Jerusalem, the workmen crowded together, the unfinished walls and unpaved streets; no man heard the clink of trowel and pickaxe; it descended out of heaven from God. -- John Robert Seeley
Now, my father Matthias was not only eminent on account of is nobility, but had a higher commendation on account of his righteousness, and was in great reputation in Jerusalem, the greatest city we have. -- Flavius Josephus

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