More Quotes
“We are doing our utmost to integrate minorities into the army… Serving in the army is a great platform to connect the Muslim community to the state… Our mission is to enlist as many as we can.”
(Col. Wajdi Sarhan, head of the IDF Minorities Unit, speaking to the BBC on the role of Arabs in the IDF, 08/11/2016)
“Following the election President Obama may…foolishly send the Israel-Palestine conflict to the United Nations. This would mean the end of the peace process, because the Palestinians would be disincentivised from entering into the kinds of direct negotiations without preconditions that the Israeli government continues to offer, and that is the only realistic road to peace.” (Alan Dershowitz writing in the Jerusalem Post on the consequence of UN involvement in the peace process, 07/11/2016)
“If we push for direct bilateral negotiations today, for some we would be dreamers, for others naive, but certainly we would not be realistic.”
(Nickolay Mladenov, UN Special Coordinator to the Middle East Peace Process, speaking at conference at the Netanya Academic College, 4/11/16)
“This poll underlines that the boycott movement, which is morally wrong and economically damaging, does not speak for the British people. It is a powerful signal that this country rejects the attempt to delegitimise and demonise the State of Israel, and recognises the antisemitism which underlies such attitudes.”
(Joan Ryan MP, Chair of Labour Friends of Israel, responding to new BICOM polling showing an increase in opposition to boycotts of Israel, 04/11/16)
“Israelis and Palestinians are Siamese twins. It is decreed that we must live together. Our future is entwined, one with the other…We must build bridges between people, not put up blockades.”
(Dr. Izzeldin Abuelaish, a Palestinian-Canadian doctor whose three daughters were killed during Operation Cast Lead in 2009 who has formed the Daughters for Life Foundation in memory of his daughters named.)
“An agreement, any agreement, will be dependent not only on maps and security arrangements but also on trust. If the Palestinians believe any dialogue with a Jew is a crime, and if supporters of the Palestinians think that the Jews are the ones who killed themselves in the Holocaust and they don’t deserve a state, who exactly are we supposed to talk with?”
(Yair Lapid, leader of Yesh Atid Party, writing in The Daily Telegraph, 01/11/2016)
