Israel

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Israel is a country in the Asian continent on the Mediterranean coast.

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• WE DECLARE that, with effect from the moment of the termination of the Mandate being tonight, the eve of Sabbath, the 6th Iyar, 5708 (15th May, 1948), until the establishment of the elected, regular authorities of the State in accordance with the Constitution which shall be adopted by the Elected Constituent Assembly not later than the 1st October 1948, the People's Council shall act as a Provisional Council of State, and its executive organ, the People's Administration, shall be the Provisional Government of the Jewish State, to be called "Israel".
• THE STATE OF ISRAEL will be open for Jewish immigration and for the Ingathering of the Exiles; it will foster the development of the country for the benefit of all its inhabitants; it will be based on freedom, justice and peace as envisaged by the prophets of Israel; it will ensure complete equality of social and political rights to all its inhabitants irrespective of religion, race or sex; it will guarantee freedom of religion, conscience, language, education and culture; it will safeguard the Holy Places of all religions; and it will be faithful to the principles of the Charter of the United Nations.
  • Israeli Declaration of Independance

• It is permissible to destroy everything.
  • Haim Ramon [1]

• Ramallah is not Auschwitz. Israel is not the Third Reich. We have no death camps and we haven't massacred one third of the Palestinian population in gas chambers. Therefore, everything we do is quite all right. We may fill the occupied territories with tear gas and blood, we may kill and injure and torture and blackmail and dispossess, we may surround millions by electric fences and tanks in tiny enclaves, we may hold them under siege and daily bombing, we may make pregnant women walk to hospitals, and we shoot ambulances too, don't we. But as long as we fall even an inch short of the atrocities of Nazi Germany, it's all fine and good, and don't you dare make the comparison.
  • Ran HaCohen, "The Auschwitz Logic", Antiwar.com (2002-04-01)

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• This story about the danger of extermination has been a complete invention and has been blown up a posteriori to justify the annexation of new Arab territories.
  • Mordechai Bentov, cabinet minister, cited in Le Monde, June 3, 1972

• In June 1967 we again had a choice. The Egyptian army concentrations in the Sinai approaches did not prove that Nasser was really about to attack us. We must be honest with ourselves. We decided to attack him. This was a war of self-defense in the noblest sense of the term. The Government of National Unity then established decided unaminously: we will take the initiative and attack the enemy, drive him back, and thus assure the security of Israel and the future of the nation.
  • Menachem Begin, leader of Gahal Party, cited in New York Times, Aug. 21, 1982.

• To pretend that the Egyptian forces massed on our frontiers were in a position to threaten the existence of Israel constitutes an insult not only to the intelligence of anyone capable of analyzing this sort of situation, but above all an insult to the Zahal [Israeli army].
  • general Matityahu Peled, cited in Ha’aretz, March 19, 1972.

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• Americans admire a people who can scratch a desert and produce a garden. The Israelis have shown qualities that Americans identify with: guts, patriotism, idealism, a passion for freedom. I have seen it. I know. I believe that.
  • Richard Nixon

• Israel is still the only country in the world against which there is a written document to the effect that it must disappear.
  • Menachem Begin, on the PLO Charter, which calls for the elimination of Israel.

• No more wars, no more bloodshed. Peace unto you. Shalom, salaam, forever.
  • Menchem Begin, on signing the Egyptian-Israeli peace treaty, Washington, D.C., March 26, 1979.

• Peace will come when the Arabs will love their children more than they hate us
  • Golda Meir, 1957

• In Israel, in order to be a realist, you must believe in miracles.
  • David Ben Gurion, Israel's first Prime Minister

• ...the final goal of the resistance is to wipe this entity off the face of the earth. This goal necessitates the development of the capabilities of the resistance, until this entity is wiped out.
  • Hamas representative in Lebanon Osama Hamdan Justifies Suicide Bombings in Buses: Israeli Soldiers Ride Those Buses. MEMRI (August 06, 2007).
  • . Hamas representative in Lebanon Osama Hamdan Justifies Suicide Bombings in Buses: Israeli Soldiers Ride Those Buses

• This Zionist entity is aggressive by nature and by faith.
  • Yahya Abu Zakariya, Algerian writer, . Debate about a Newly-Formed Berber-Jewish Friendship Association in Morocco
  • Debate about a Newly-Formed Berber-Jewish Friendship Association in Morocco (July 21, 2007).

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