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let the wise listen and add to their learning, and let the discerning get guidance-- for understanding proverbs and parables, the sayings and riddles of the wise. Proverbs 1 v5-6
I know full well what you are thinking, the schemes by which you would wrong me. Job 21 v27
Quotes
The quotes on this page are collected because of the way they encapsulate different aspects of the conflict in Israel in such concise, even witty terms. Even the comments by Israel's enemies are very telling in what they reveal.
"There are currently about 30 terrorist attacks per day in this tiny country of 5.2 million Jews. What if there were 30 terrorist attacks per day in Chicago or Los Angeles or Paris or London?" Maoz Israel Report - April 2002 (commenting on events of March 2002)"If the Arabs (Muslims) put down their weapons today there would be no more violence. If the Israelis put down their weapons today there would be no more Israel." Shira Sorko-Ram Maoz Israel newsletter May 2004
"Consistently, from the Hezbollah heartland, my message was that Hezbollah must stop this cowardly blending ... among women and children," . "I heard they were proud because they lost very few fighters and that it was the civilians bearing the brunt of this. I don't think anyone should be proud of having many more children and women dead than armed men." Jan Egeland U.N. humanitarian chief
"We will make the lives of the infidels hell - millions of martyrs marching on Jerusalem." Yasser Arafat ( in Arabic ) on Palestine Radio. ( It has been suggested that this could be a darker, coded, call to Muslim nations to attack Israel with weapons of mass destruction, even if it makes martyrs of millions of Palestinians )
"Tomorrow, our nation will sit on the throne of the world. [..] Tomorrow we will lead the world, Allah willing. Apologize today, before remorse will do you no good. Our nation is moving forwards, and it is in your interest to respect a victorious nation." Khaled Mash'al, leader of Hamas, calling on European nations to apologise to Islam. (Speech in Damascus, 3rd February 2006)
"I promise to crush Israel and return it to the humiliation and wretchedness of the Koran." 25th April 1972 by Anwar Sadat , president of Egypt who initiated the Yom Kippur war. He was later assassinated by his own countrymen after signing a peace agreement with Israel.
"The Palestinian people accepted the Oslo agreements as a first step and not as a permanent settlement, based on the premise that war and struggle in the land is more efficient than a struggle from a distant land . . . "The Palestinian people will continue the revolution until they achieve the goals of the '65 revolution." ( destruction of Israel ) Abd El Aziz Shahian PA MINISTER OF SUPPLIES [AlAyyam, 30 May 2000]
'We are discussing the current problems and when we speak about Jerusalem it doesn't mean we have forgotten about Hebron or about Jaffa or about Acre . . . We are speaking about the current problems that have priority at a certain time. It doesn't mean that we have given up . . . We have announced a number of times that, from a religious point of view, Palestine from the sea [Mediterranean] to the river [Jordan] is Islamic." Sheikh lkrima Sabri PA-APPOINTED MUFTI OF JERUSALEM AND PALESTINE [PATV, II January 2001]
'Had the US and Israel realized, before Oslo, that all that was left of the Palestinian national movement and the pan-Arab movement was a wooden horse called Arafat or the PLO, they would never have opened their fortified gates and let it inside their walls . . . This effort could have been much better, broader and more significant had we made it clearer to ourselves that the Oslo agreement, or any other agreement is just a temporary procedure, or just a step towards something bigger bigger . . . We distinguish the strategic, long-term goals from the politically phased goals, which we are compelled to accept temporarily due to international pressure . . . Palestine according to the higher strategy is "from the river to the sea." Palestine in its entirety is an Arab land, the land of the Arab nation.' Faisal Husseini PA REPRESENTATIVE FOR JERUSALEM AFFAIRS [Al-Arabi, Egypt, 24 June 2001]
'Whether they return to negotiations or not, and whether they fulfill the agreements or not, the political plan is a temporary agreement, and the conflict remains eternal, will not be locked, and the agreements being talked about are regarding the current balance of power. As to the struggle, it will continue. It may pause at times, but in the final analysis, Palestine is ours from the sea to the river.' Abdullah AI-Hourani CHAIRMAN, PALESTINIAN COUNCIL POLITICAL COMMITTEE [Al Hayat Al Jadida, 14 April 2000]
'When we picked up the gun in '65 and the modem Palestinian revolution began, it had a goal. This goal has not changed, and it is the liberation of Palestine.' Al Hayat Al Jadida, 20 January 2000]
"We fight side by side with our Palestinian brothers against Israel." Fahid Abu Shamala, a fixer for the BBC and other foreign media in the Gaza Strip. (The source of impartial news in the UK ?)
"It isn't poverty that breeds terrorism, but terrorism that breeds poverty." Dan Gillerman, Israel's ambassador to the U.N.
“Our terrorist sons are an end-product of our corrupted culture,” Abdulrahman al-Rashed, general manager of Al-Arabiya television wrote in his daily column published in the pan-Arab Asharq Al-Awsat newspaper. It ran under the headline, “The Painful Truth: All the World Terrorists are Muslims!”
" A society that produces suicide murderers in quantity is essentially committing its own suicide." Hiam Harari, Physicist and author of "A View from the Eye of the Storm."
"I have no hesitation in saying that we must consider giving the Arab side a large enough force, including a large enough nuclear force, to persuade Israel that it cannot simply do whatever it wants. That is the policy my country [France] pursued in the 1970s when it gave Iraq a nuclear force." French EU parliamentarian Paul Marie Couteax Standing before the EU parliament in Brussels on May 16 2001, after condemning Israel's actions to defend itself against Palestinian terrorism as the "theocratic excesses of this religious state." Couteax declared that Europe should supply the Arab world with nuclear weapons.
[Yasser Arafat] has "feasted on all sorts of funds flowing into the PA, including aid money, Israeli tax transfers, and revenue from a casino and Coca-Cola bottler. Much of the money appears to have gone to pay off others. New Finance Minister Salaam Fayad is cleaning up the PA's finances, cutting off much of Arafat's cash flow." 'Forbes' (the Rich List people) revealing that Yasser Arafat is worth $300m. Reported in Jerusalem Post, Jerusalem; Feb 28, 2003
"There won't be peace in the Middle East until Yasser Arafat learns to love Palestinian children more than he hates the Jews." Richard Booker, quoting former Israel Prime Minister Golda Meir, "We will achieve peace when the Arabs love their children more than they hate us."
"How is it that half a billion hostile Arabs have managed to successfully portray themselves as the victims of five million Israeli Jews? . . . . . How did more than a dozen Arab tyrannies successfully portray Israel, the region's lone democracy, as the bad guys in the Middle East? . . . . What Israel has failed at utterly is framing the conflict with the Palestinians in moral terms. This is not a dispute over land. Rather it is a conflict between good and evil . . . . . . . Whatever grievances the Palestinians claim to have against Israel, choosing to settle them by maiming and murdering innocent men, women and children is a crime against God and a sin against humanity. The Jews were put into ghettos and turned into piles of ashes by the Nazis. But they never retaliated by machine-gunning German schoolgirls. . . . . " Rabbi Shmuley Boteach. Jerusalem Post Jan 9th 2003
"He who defines the terms, controls the debate." Mike Evans, commenting on the practice of using euphemisms instead of the word "Terrorist", but equally valid to debates on the "Middle East Crisis", which all use Palestinian defined terminology.
"All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing." Edmund Burke 1729-1797.
"During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act." George Orwell.
"Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch." Benjamin Franklin
"It's not that I place less value on Palestinian lives, but that Chairman Arafat and his chums in Hamas do." Mark Steyn - Daily Telegraph March 30 2002. (Commenting on the practice of dressing up little Palestinian children as suicide bombers and glorifying martyrdom)
"I don’t want to involve myself in the various arguments about why Israel was created . . . . . I want to deal with the situation at hand which is the ongoing killing on both sides. . . . . . . It’s true that there’s also much oppression of Palestinians in Arab countries, where Palestinians aren’t allowed to vote or own property and are treated as second class citizens and pawns in the fight against Israel. But I’m not going to spend my time on this since there is isn’t a whole lot I can do about it." Michael Moore, scourge of George Bush in particular and American government in general, justifying why, in his book, "Stupid White Men" he holds forth on the Middle East and condemns Israel without looking any deeper than the usual Anti-Israel media stereotypes.
"Islam isn't in America to be equal to any other faith, but to become dominant." Omar Ahmad, chairman of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR)
Yusuf Al-Qaradawi - sometimes called a moderate Muslim cleric, whose visit to the UK caused controversy with the following.
"The Israelis have nuclear bombs but we have the children bomb and these human bombs must continue until liberation." Yusuf Al-Qaradawi
"We must all realise that the Israeli society is a military society - men and women. We cannot describe the society as civilian .... they are not civilians or innocent." Yusuf Al-Qaradawi
"We will conquer Europe, we will conquer America!" Yusuf Al-Qaradawi
"It has been determined by Islamic law that the blood and property of people of Dar Al-Harb (non Muslims) is not protected. Because they fight against and are hostile towards the Muslims, they annulled the protection of his blood and his property." Yusuf Al-Qaradawi
"It is not suicide; it is martyrdom in the name of God. I consider this type of martyrdom operation as an indication of the justice of Allah almighty. Allah is just. Through his infinite wisdom, he has given the weak what the strong do not possess and that is the ability to turn their bodies into bombs as the Palestinians do." Yusuf Al-Qaradawi
"The two sides that fought in World War I lived in the same century but in different places. The same is true for World War II. In World War III, both sides are almost everywhere, but they live in different centuries." Hiam Harari.
"If you pursue an evenhanded policy between a cat and a mouse, do you help the mouse to survive - aor allow the cat to eat half the mouse?" Hiam Harari
"Bombs take hours or days to reach every corner of the earth. Words arrive instantly and kill more people. They are a weapon of mass destruction." Hiam Harari
"The fact that he accepted hospitality may be above board. But some people may feel it will have an impact on his approach to the Middle East. The Prime Minister is paid enough not to have to accept hospitality." Norman Baker, MP for Lewes, on Tony Blair's family holiday at the Egyptian government's expense.
"We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart." -H. L. Mencken
Much of the church has acted, and still acts, as though it has been grafted into a Christmas Tree - flashing its attractive lights and decorations, but unconcerned about its loss of roots and wondering why it is spiritually drying up and dying." Chuck Cohen, in "Roots of Our Faith"
"Jesus Christ is the most famous Jew of all time, but is today remembered as a Christian. Surprisingly, the Jewish community has accepted this distortion of history, and tends to regard Jesus as an apostate. How odd that the Jews would accept a Christian version of one of their brethren rather than seeking to discover the man entombed beneath the myth." Rabbi Shmuley Boteach, Discovering the Jewish Jesus (Jerusalem Post 7th July 2005)
How odd
Of God
To choose
The Jews William Norman Ewer
But not so odd
As those who choose
A Jewish God
But spurn the Jews T E Brown
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