More Quotes
“Our debate about the values of the IDF, about the courts, about the citizenship registry, about culture and creativity, and about the relative importance and significance of the ‘values’ in the balance between the Jewish State and the democratic state….is an important debate in which we must be scrupulously careful about the integrity of our arguments and of their implications.”
(President Reuven Rivlin speaking at the opening winter session of the Knesset, 31/10/2016)
“The best options for a last-minute Obama intervention [in the peace process] require a stepping up of the rhetoric and intentions. That would mean a UN resolution directly initiated by the US, or a policy speech that packed its punches rather than go over old ground.”
(Yossi Beilin, writing in Haaretz on the choices US President Obama faces in the peace process during his short time left in office, 30/10/2016)
“Israel is on the frontline of the West’s confrontation with Islamist terrorism and a crucial ally. One thing is clear: its expertise will help save European lives and act as a welcome guide in navigating the difficult moral, legal and tactical terrain ahead.”
(Former First Minister of Northern Ireland Lord Trimble and Robert Quick, member of the High Level Home Front Group examining responses to terrorism in democratic nations, writing in a jointly authored article in the Telegraph, 27/10/2016).
“Not only is this papyrus the earliest non-Biblical source that mentions Jerusalem in Hebrew writing, no other written documents on papyrus from the First Temple period were found in the Land of Israel until now, except one from the Wadi Marbaat…The document also highlights the unusual status of a woman in the administration of the kingdom of Judah in the seventh century BCE.” (Prof. Shmuel Ahituv, the Israel Prize laureate for Bible studies on recent papyrus discovery, 26/10/16)
“The Palestinians’ new campaign to highlight the ostensible illegalities and iniquities of the Balfour Declaration tells a different story. It shows an undimmed hostility to the very notion of Jewish sovereignty anywhere in the holy land, and an abiding refusal to accept Jewish legitimacy here.”
(David Horovitz writing in the Times of Israel on the Palestinian announcement to start their new campaign on the 100th anniversary of the Balfour Declaration, 25/10/2016)
“The gift of 117 earthquake tables to the children of Tainan is a wonderful example of the way design can contribute to the safety of children and enhance friendship between people. I am proud that we are educating our students to look at the many ways they can improve people’s lives, not only the rich and powerful, but rather the vast majority of people who need simple, trustworthy, accessible design solutions they can afford.”
(Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design’s Professor Ido Bruno on the delivery of tables which will provide shelter during earthquakes to Tainan, Taiwan, designed by an Israeli student, 19/10/2016)
