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And this would normalize the existence of the Israeli and the Jew: a majority of Jews in the Land of Israel and a majority of Israelis among the Jewish People. -- Shimon Peres
Zionism is nothing more, but also nothing less, than the Jewish People's sense of origin and destination in the Land linked eternally with its name. It is also the instrument whereby the Jewish Nation seeks an authentic fulfillment of itself. -- Abba Eban
The driving force for the Arabs is hatred of Israel. Hatred of the Jewish people. -- Yitzhak Shamir
Zionism demands a publicly recognized and legally secured homeland in Palestine for the Jewish people. This platform is unchangeable. -- Theodor Herzl
For a long time I was convinced that the conflict between Jewish people and black people in this country was a media event. -- Toni Morrison
I marvel at the resilience of the Jewish people. Their best characteristic is their desire to remember. No other people has such an obsession with memory. -- Elie Wiesel
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
Without a Jewish state, the iron truth of history is that the Jewish people sooner or later become even more vulnerable to the next wave of anti-Semitism. -- Jack Schwartz
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
In North America, the greatest threat to the Jewish people is not the external force of antisemitism, but the internal forces of apathy, inertia and ignorance of our own heritage. -- Michael Steinhardt
The Jewish nation is indeed, the heart of the world and there is no reason for the existence of empires, kings, rulers, masses or systems aside from their reaction to the Jewish people. -- Meir Kahane
To be a Jew, essentially and not just accidentally, is to regard the Jewish people as one's sole primal community. Election by the unique God requires total and unconditional loyalty to one people. -- David Novak
I don't think I have accomplished what I still have to accomplish. There is one thing that I would like to do, and that's to bring security and peace to the Jewish people. -- Ariel Sharon
Bulgaria is a true friend of Israel, that stood up to save the Jewish people 70 years ago in Europe, and who stood by throughout the terror attack that took place in Burgas last July. -- Shimon Peres
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
Honestly, what can really be said about 'the Jewish people' as a whole? Is it not a lamentable stereotype to make large generalizations about all Jews, and to presume they all share the same political commitments? -- Judith Butler
It will not do to say that international law is the enemy of the Jewish people, since the Jewish people surely did not as a whole oppose the Nuremburg trials, or the development of human rights law. -- Judith Butler
Jewish people have put the interests of race over the interests of the American people... Jews are filled with more hatred and rage for our race, for our heritage, for our blood than perhaps you can imagine. -- David Duke
The spirit in which the offer was made must of necessity contribute to improving and alleviating the situation of the Jewish people without our renouncing one iota of the great principles upon which our movement is based. -- Theodor Herzl
The Jewish people asked nothing of its sons except not to be denied. The world is grateful to every great man when he brings it something; only the paternal home thanks the son who brings nothing but himself. -- Theodor Herzl
It goes without saying that the Jewish people can have no other goal than Palestine and that, whatever the fate of the proposition may be, our attitude toward the land of our fathers is and shall remain unchangeable. -- Theodor Herzl
Our forces saved the remnants of the Jewish people of Europe for a new life and a new hope in the reborn land of Israel. Along with all men of good will, I salute the young state and wish it well. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
When the Jewish people, after nearly 2,000 years of exile, under relentless persecution, became a nation again on 14 May 1948 the 'fig tree' put forth its first leaves. Jesus said that this would indicate that He was 'at the door,' ready to return. -- Hal Lindsey
Only if we accept the proposition that the state of Israel is the exclusive and legitimate representative of the Jewish people would a movement calling for divestment, sanctions and boycott against that state be understood as directed against the Jewish people as a whole. -- Judith Butler
Many Jews are not Zionists and many non-Jews are. Zionism is a political movement, not a race. To say Zionism is the Jewish people is like saying the Democratic Party is the American people. Jewish people who oppose Zionism, however, have been given a very hard time. -- David Icke
As a Jew, it is my historic responsibility to defend the Jewish people. I feel this responsibility for the survival of the Jewish people. We're not going to accept any decision by anybody else about security of the State of Israel. It is our role and only our role. -- Ariel Sharon
My dad left when I was a little boy and I grew up with my mother's family. There were foundations in the U.S. where Jewish people got together and sent money to Cuba, so we got some of that. We were a poor family, but I was always a happy kid. -- William Levy
My father was very disappointed by war and fighting. And he thought language could help us out of cycles of revenge and animosity. And so, as a journalist, he always found himself asking lots of questions and trying to gather information. He was always very clear to underscore the fact that Jewish people and Arab people were brother and sister. -- Naomi Shihab Nye
Faced with destruction, the Jewish people survived. -- Jonathan Sacks
You can't love God without loving the Jewish people. -- Corrie Ten Boom
I'd like it if people thought I was Jewish looking. -- Natalie Portman
For me, peace should provide security to the Jewish people. -- Ariel Sharon
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There are very close ties between the Jewish and Mormon people. -- Chuck Schumer
I really love how Israel operates, and I love the Jewish people. -- Joe Arpaio
There are three things Jewish people worship-God, Chinese food and wall-to-wall carpeting. -- Woody Allen
People always think I'm Jewish and changed my last name from Rabinowitz -- Nathan Lane
People always think I'm Jewish and changed my last name from Rabinowitz. -- Nathan Lane
It's typical of Mormon people to love all people, but especially Jewish people. -- Orrin Hatch
I have worked hard to build relationships between Jewish people and black people. -- Jesse Jackson
People do think I'm Jewish. But we're Irish Catholic. My father had a brogue. -- Martin Short
If you hate the Jewish people, you are not reflecting the teachings of Christ. -- Ted Cruz
I am not an anti-Semite! I have a great respect for the Jewish people. -- David Icke
The Jewish people, no matter where they are, they become the best in the world. -- Josef Mengele
Zionism wants to define the Jewish people as a national entity ... which is a heresy. -- Roger Garaudy
My music is really about people connecting with their identities, even if they aren't Jewish. -- Matisyahu
The sincere Christian knows that what died in Auschwitz was not the Jewish people but Christianity. -- Elie Wiesel
The Jewish people, ever since David slew Goliath, have never considered youth as a barrier to leadership. -- John F. Kennedy
I am Jewish. My real name is Chris Tuckenberg. A lot of people don't know about that. -- Chris Tucker
Sometimes people who are Jewish are held to a higher standard which sometimes we take great pride in. -- Gary Ackerman
People who criticize power in the Jewish community are regarded the way Ahab treated Elijah: You're a traitor. -- Noam Chomsky
Suddenly in high school, I'm in a predominantly Jewish atmosphere. Jewish people were my gate to white America. -- Anna Deavere Smith
The German debt to the Jewish people can never end, not in this generation and not in any other. -- Menachem Begin
I noticed that people were craving a way of reinterpreting tradition and of being Jewish without joining a synagogue. -- Jill Soloway
I do explicitly see Jewish people as a people - not either a religion or an ethnicity but a people. -- Ken Livingstone
The Holocaust is not only a tragedy of the Jewish people, it is a failure of humanity as a whole. -- Moshe Katsav
I'm always stunned when I find out people like Roosevelt and Tolstoy weren't Jewish. How could I love them so much? -- Mel Brooks
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I'm Italian, but some people think I'm Jewish because I work the Yiddish. I also work the Italian, by the way. -- Joy Behar
Most people are blown away by the fact that Beck is Jewish... and Billy Joel. I didn't know he was Jewish. -- Guy Oseary
I think my sense of humor is Jewish. I'm smarter than most white people, which is kind of a Jewish thing, too. -- Jim Goad
The election of the Jewish people is the result of God's falling in love with Abraham and founding a family with him. -- Meir Soloveichik
I have never talked publicly or privately about the Jewish people, including conversations with President Nixon, except in the most positive terms. -- Billy Graham
People are scared in this country [the US], to say wrong is wrong because the Jewish lobby is powerful - very powerful. -- Desmond Tutu
San Francisco is really fun and liberal, and it's my kind of politics. It's like being Jewish in front of Jewish people. -- Elayne Boosler
Donald Trump feels very warmly about the Jewish state, about the Jewish people and about Jewish people. There's no question about that. -- Benjamin Netanyahu
Without hesitation, I place Freud among the heroes. He dispossessed the Jewish people of the greatest and most influential of all heroes-Moses. -- Salvador Dali
There is no greater anti-Semite that the Jewish one, and none hates the Jewish people more than the Jewish traitor and apostate. -- Meir Kahane
I'm more Jewish than you think I am...I read the part of the Bible that said the Jews are God's chosen people. -- Rick Perry
A lot of black people believe that Jews in this country have become white. They behave like white people rather than Jewish people. -- Toni Morrison
There is a Jewish notion that holiness is found with other people. To understand what life really is, one has to share it. -- Harold S. Kushner
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
Anyone who makes the life of Jewish people difficult or grievous, as did the Pharaoh, as did Hitler, will be cursed by God. -- John Hagee
The ancient Jewish people gave the world the vision of eternal peace, of universal disarmament, of abolishing the teaching and learning of war. -- Menachem Begin
When I tell people I'm an Italian Jew, they're very amused by it. But obviously by blood I'm Jewish, because my mother is. -- Antonio Sabato, Jr.
The Jewish people, for their tiny numbers, have done superbly. They don't need me. They have Einstein. They have everybody - Maury Povich. -- Geraldo Rivera
My greatest accomplishment is Exodus. It changed a lot of peoples lives, it changed the conception of the Jewish people in the international scene. -- Leon Uris
I am one of the happiest people I know. And that's a weird place to have arrived at from being a depressed Jewish kid. -- Debra Winger
The struggle which is now beginning between the Zionist and Bolshevik Jews is little less than a struggle for the soul of the Jewish people. -- Winston Churchill
If every human rights atrocity is described as a Holocaust,[Adolf] Hitler's attempted obliteration of the Jewish people is diminished or de-recognised in our history. -- Jeremy Corbyn
It's just what they are â?? they're jokesâ?¦most jokes are about Jewish people, rednecks, black folksâ?¦I can't determine what offends another person. -- Paula Deen
The allied nations with the fullest concurrence of our government and people are agreed that in Palestine shall be laid the foundations of a Jewish Commonwealth. -- Woodrow Wilson
I believe that for the small numbers of Jewish people in the United States, they exercise a tremendous amount of influence on the affairs of government. -- Louis Farrakhan
I'm not saying I'm the only Jewish person who cares about Palestinian people, but unfortunately, their voices are not necessarily heard as loudly as they should be. -- Julian Schnabel
Fear of anti-Semitism almost is part of our religion. Throughout time Jewish people have experienced traumas that we relive in a lot of the things we celebrate. -- Jill Soloway
The religious doctrine of traditional Judaism entails the acceptance of the nationhood of the Jewish people and the everlasting sanctity of the Land of Israel for them. -- David Novak
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David Simon goes to the Jewish Weekly and said he's made all this money, but he can't enjoy it because of criticism by people like Ishmael Reed. -- Ishmael Reed
I certainly didn't have New York Jewish humor. But I was in three Mel Brooks films so people thought I was a connoisseur of New York Jewish humor. -- Gene Wilder
People ask how can a Jewish kid from the Bronx do preppy clothes? Does it have to do with class and money? It has to do with dreams. -- Ralph Lauren
I love being Jewish; I have no problem with it at all. But it did become like a scar, with all these people saying you don't look it. -- Lauren Bacall
My relationship to the Jewish people has become my strongest human bond, ever since I became fully aware of our precarious situation among the nations of the world. -- Albert Einstein
I'll admit it, the Holocaust was definitely a bad thing, but do we really need Jewish people around? They have big noses. I said it! I said it! -- Carlos Mencia
A creative, thoughtful, and accomplished people such as the Jewish people should be known by what they have done and not by what has been done to them. -- Deborah Lipstadt
The P.L.O., and later the Palestinian Authority, never truly accepted that Israel, as the national state and homeland of the Jewish people, was here to stay. -- Danny Danon
Nothing is sacred. Not even your own mother, not the Jewish martyrs, not even people starving of hunger. Laugh at everything, ferociously, bitterly, to exorcise the old monsters. -- Francois Cavanna
People value Halloween, like Valentine's Day, because they can tell themselves that it's not merely secularized but actually secular, which is to say, not Christian, Jewish, Hindu or Muslim. -- Amity Shlaes
It makes me furious to hear haters of all skin colors - especially Christian, Jewish, and Muslim fundamentalists - deride other people because of their different beliefs and lifestyles. -- Rita Dove
The Jewish people have to get rid of their fears so they see the positive things and they need to dare to look at the world through their Judaism. -- Csanad Szegedi
I have no patience for those in the American Jewish community who just go around slandering people as anti-Semites without realizing that what they're doing is really trivializing anti-Semitism. -- Zbigniew Brzezinski
With satanic joy in his face, the black-haired Jewish youth lurks in wait for the unsuspecting girl whom he defiles with his blood, thus stealing her from her people. -- Adolf Hitler
Three of my children married Jewish people. One did not and that marriage didn't last more than half a dozen years or so. The others are still very close. -- Vera Rubin
Leading the Jewish people is not easy -- we are a divided, obstinate, highly individualistic people who have cultivated faith, sharp wittedness and polemics to a very high level. -- Shimon Peres
It is beyond belief that someone could come to the launch of a report on antisemitism in the Labour Party and espouse such vile conspiracy theories about Jewish people. -- Ruth Smeeth
Jewish people, we don't need the money. We're doctors and lawyers. It's the Christians who can't hold a steady job and have to go on TV and ask for money. -- Andy Kindler
I am not conventionally religious, but I am an ongoing student of the Old and the New Testament and the history of the Jewish people and the birth of Christianity. -- Robert Littell
Jewish people have given me all the breaks you can possibly have. But of course, it's wonderful when you feel that your own nationality has made it. It gives you hopes. -- Jamie Farr
I got into the situation where I was extreme right. It turned out that my mother is Jewish, my grandmother is Jewish. I am Jewish. So I can't hate Jewish people. -- Csanad Szegedi
The present map of Palestine was drawn by the British mandate. The Jewish people have another map which our youth and adults should strive to fulfill: from the Nile to the Euphrates. -- David Ben-Gurion
Today, I, too, wish to reaffirm that I intend to continue on the path toward improved relations and friendship with the Jewish people, following the decisive lead given by John Paul II. -- Pope Benedict XVI
People need to know why we, as the Jewish people, have a right to be here. We need to tell people what we are doing here... My tourism guidebook is the Bible. -- Ariel Sharon
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The fact that 'Scrubs' is so popular in Israel is very important to me. I feel like I'm helping to cancel out the thousands of years of oppression the Jewish people have suffered. -- Zach Braff
When the Temple was destroyed, the Jewish people faced a crisis unlike any other in its history. For centuries, the sacrificial system had served as the primary medium of atonement before the Almighty. -- Meir Soloveichik
His cold eyes stared at me. At last, he said wearily: "I have more faith in Hitler than in anyone else. He alone has kept his promises, all his promises, to the Jewish people. -- Elie Wiesel
Everybody around us was weeping. Someone began to recite Kaddish, the prayer for the dead. I don't know whether, during the history of the Jewish people, men have ever before recited Kaddish for themselves. -- Elie Wiesel
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 -- Samantha Power
And the founder of Christianity made no secret indeed of his estimation of the Jewish people. When He found it necessary, He drove those enemies of the human race out of the Temple of God. -- Adolf Hitler

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