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The only holiday of independence which I can never leave out is the celebration of the independence of the Jewish State of Israel. -- Milos Zeman
Now, when we say we want peace, what we want is really for our Palestinian neighbours to have a demilitarized state next to us that recognizes the Jewish State. We're willing to recognize their state, the Palestinian state. But we ask them to recognize the Jewish state. -- Benjamin Netanyahu
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President Obama himself has attributed the legitimacy of the Jewish State not to its historic identity as Jewish territory, but to the Holocaust. -- Ben Shapiro
I prefer a powerful and proud Jewish State that is hated by the entire world than an Auschwitz that is loved by one and all -- Meir Kahane
It is the duty of Israeli leaders to explain to public opinion, clearly and courageously, a certain number of facts that are forgotten with time. The first of these is that there is no Zionism, colonialization, or Jewish State without the eviction of the Arabs and the expropriation of their lands. -- Ariel Sharon
Were I to sum up the Basle Congress in a word- which I shall guard against pronouncing publicly- it would be this: 'At Basle, I founded the Jewish State. If I said this out loud today, I would be answered by universal laughter. If not in 5 years, certainly in 50, everyone will know it.' -- Theodor Herzl
I strongly believe that a small Jewish clique which has contempt for the mass of Jewish people worked with non-Jews to create the First World War, the Russian Revolution, and the Second World War. This Jewish/non-Jewish Elite used the First World War to secure the Balfour Declaration and the principle of the Jewish State of Israel. -- David Icke
Israel, as the Jewish state, must disappear from the map. -- Ahmed Yassin
The disappearance of the Jewish state will not mean the disappearance of anti-Semitism. -- Jack Schwartz
I think that peace will require two states, a Palestinian state that recognizes the Jewish state. -- Benjamin Netanyahu
Our policy is very simple. The Jewish state was set up to defend Jewish lives, and we always reserve the right to defend ourselves. -- Benjamin Netanyahu
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
The purpose of the Jewish state is to secure the Jewish future. That is why Israel must always have the ability to defend itself, against any threat. -- Benjamin Netanyahu
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
It simply cannot be disputed that for decades the Palestinian leadership was more interested in there not being a Jewish state than in there being a Palestinian state. -- Alan Dershowitz
We want Israel as a democratic and Jewish state. So you have to maintain a Jewish majority, and you want to do that by legal means, by democratic means. -- Benjamin Netanyahu
A solution of two national states - a Jewish state, Israel; an Arab state, Palestine. The Palestinians are our closest neighbors. I believe they may become our closest friends. -- Shimon Peres
Hamas is a terrorist organization dedicated to annihilating the Jewish state. It runs a theocratic totalitarian state in Gaza, with no individual liberty, and no freedom of speech or press. -- Dennis Prager
The fact is, that with the creation of the Jewish state in 1948, hundreds of thousands of Jews fled Arab countries, almost all of whom left behind all their property for which compensation was never paid. -- Meir Kahane
I would like Israel to be a Jewish state, and therefore not to annex over 2 million Palestinians who live in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip to Israel, which will make Israel a bi-national state. -- Yitzhak Rabin
All the other members of the U.N. were admitted, at the outset or subsequently, but Israel was created by the U.N. as a Jewish state, on the motion of Stalin's ambassador, seconded by President Truman's. -- Conrad Black
There are eleven million Jews in the world. I don't say that all of them will come here, but I expect several million, and with natural increase I can quite imagine a Jewish state of ten million. -- David Ben-Gurion
I see all this and know that if we are to save the Jewish state and its three-and-a-half million Jews from terrible horrors, we must rise up and demand a fundamental change in the very system of government. -- Meir Kahane
I know that elections must be limited only to those who understand that the Arabs are the deadly enemy of the Jewish state, who would bring on us a slow Auschwitz - not with gas, but with knives and hatchets. -- Meir Kahane
I enter negotiations with Chairman Arafat, the leader of the PLO, the representative of the Palestinian people, with the purpose to have coexistence between our two entities, Israel as a Jewish state and Palestinian state, entity, next to us, living in peace. -- Yitzhak Rabin
As a Zionist youth leader in the 1940s, I was among those who called for a binational state in Mandatory Palestine. When a Jewish state was declared, I felt that it should have the rights of other states - no more, no less. -- Noam Chomsky
Both peoples, both nations, deserve a nation-state of their own. Palestinians, if they wish so, will go to the Palestinian state; Jews, if they so wish, can go to the Jewish state. And we'll have to have security and demilitarization agreements between us. -- Benjamin Netanyahu
The Israeli military plays more than a critical role in defending the citizens of the Jewish state. It also plays an important social, scientific and psychological role in preparing its young citizens for the challenging task of being Israelis in a difficult world. -- Alan Dershowitz
What should be the future of Israel? Is the land the most important choice, and for that reason to keep the whole of the land at any cost, or to have a partition and build the Jewish state on part of the land? And the other part? -- Shimon Peres
Since Hiroshima and the Holocaust, science no longer holds its pristine place as the highest moral authority. Instead, that role is taken by human rights. It follows that any assault on Jewish life - on Jews or Judaism or the Jewish state - must be cast in the language of human rights. -- Jonathan Sacks
We're saying this to both countries: We want a two-state solution. We want a Jewish state of Israel and alongside a independent Palestinian state. Unilateral measures are not helping at all to bring about this cause, and we agree that we wish to cooperate very closely on this, because as we both say, time is of the essence. -- Angela Merkel
I believe that the Jewish state will exist forever. -- Ariel Sharon
If the choice is one-state, Israel can either be Jewish or Democratic. It cannot be both. -- John F. Kerry
The official Hamas charter calls for the murder of Jews and destruction of the Jewish state. -- Aaron Klein
I'm confident President Obama will continue his unambiguous commitment to the Jewish state in his second term. -- Ed Koch
When the Jewish state is established - it is very possible that the result will be transfer of Arabs. -- Moshe Sharett
There is no Zionism, colonization, or Jewish state without the EVICTION of the Arabs and the expropriation of their lands. -- Ariel Sharon
I should much rather see a reasonable agreement with Arabs based upon living together than the creation of a Jewish state. -- Albert Einstein
If you don't have two states, you have one state, already the non-Jewish population outnumbers the Jewish population in one state. -- John F. Kerry
If you want to be a Jewish state and you want to remain a democracy, you have to have a two-state solution. -- John F. Kerry
If whole branches of Jews must be destroyed, it is worth it, as long as a Jewish state in Palestine is created. -- Theodor Herzl
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
The real reason we haven't had peace is because of a persistent refusal of the Palestinians to recognize a Jewish state in any border. -- Benjamin Netanyahu
That's what I am standing up for - Israel's future as a Jewish and democratic state living side-by-side in peace and security with its neighbors. -- John F. Kerry
I don't think a Jewish or Christian or Islamic state is a proper concept. I would object to the United States as a Christian state. -- Noam Chomsky
The state of Israel seems to owe its very existence to the American Jewish vote, while at the same time consigning the non-religious to political oblivion. -- Richard Dawkins
Israel, the Jewish state, the only democracy in the Middle East, continues to shine as a beacon of light in the darkest region of the world. -- Brigitte Gabriel
My privilege as a white Jewish American in Israel is a major factor in getting me so much access to the key institutions of the Jewish state. -- Max Blumenthal
If the Jewish state becomes a fact, and this is realized by the Arab peoples, they will drive the Jews who live in their midst into the sea. -- Hassan al-Banna
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
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
I don't think the Palestinians are in this position they're in, divided with Hamas and the P.A., unwilling to allow - or recognize Israel as a Jewish state. -- David Brooks
We continue to believe that a two-state solution is the only way for the long-term security of Israel, if it wants to stay both a Jewish state and democratic. -- Barack Obama
One of the things that feels so challenging is how questioning Israel and the idea of a Jewish state somehow opens the door for other sorts of questions - and wounds. -- Jill Soloway
The opportunities which the present position open up for a lasting and radical solution of the most vexing problem of the Jewish state are so far-reaching as to take one's breath away. -- Moshe Sharett
I'm not naÃ¯ve. I know perfectly well that there isn't a single Arab or Muslim in the world who would say: There has to be a Jewish state in the Middle East. -- Daniel Barenboim
There is no question that Israelis - indeed, all concerned Jews - have to continue to work out a Jewish public philosophy that truly justifies a Jewish state in the land of Israel. -- David Novak
I believe the Palestinians have never indicated a willingness to meet our minimum requirements, which are recognition of Israel's permanence and legitimacy as a Jewish state and end of claims and end of conflict. -- Michael Oren
I don't want a single state. And I talked about two states where a demilitarized Palestinian state recognizes the Jewish state, and I stand by that. I haven't retracted my position; I haven't changed it. -- Benjamin Netanyahu

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