More Quotes
“The relationship we have between the UK and Israel, especially on technology and the hive of innovation that we have in Israeli businesses,has long been a source of inspiration and profitable collaboration between us. I hope that by working together we can continue to forge a very prosperous and effective relationship together on the industrial side, but also in the context of the great friendship that there is not just between the two countries but very much between the Conservative Party, in which we all very much count ourselves as friends of Israel.”
(Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Greg Clark speaking at an event organised by Conservative Friends of Israel at the Conservative Party Conference, 04/10/2016).
“Anyone who cares and wants things to change and for us to go forward, is here. Everything is on us, this people, (on) how many masses go outside and come with us demanding a peace agreement…Our group includes women and men together. We want a dialogue in feminine form, with more compassion, listening… We want women’s representation among the staff of committees, of (peace) talks, (we want there) to be women in the accords there. And we are together, women and men, but the voice we want to sound is the women’s attitude.”
(Hagit Lavi, marcher on the women’s peace march, 05/10/16)
“We have come here on behalf of all the [Arab] local authorities to participate in the deep grief of the Peres family. He believed in peace and equality, and the Peres Center for Peace says everything about this great person. We have come on behalf of Arab society—we undertake to continue to act in light of his actions for equality and peace.”
(Chairman of the Forum of Arab Local Councils Mazen Ghanem during the Arab delegation to the Peres Center for Peace, 02/10/2016)
“The Middle East has lost a fervent advocate for peace and reconciliation and for a future where all the children of Abraham build a better tomorrow.”
(Former US President Bill Clinton remembers former President of Israel Shimon Peres in a statement, 27/09/2016)
“He possessed an exuberant passion for anything about the future. I often wanted to discuss the past with him—Ben-Gurion, the War of Independence, the alliance with France—things that no one had been more involved with than he had. But he forcibly turned the discussion to completely different topics: nanotechnology, research of the brain, the age that will follow the electronic age, medical breakthroughs that will be able to improve upon human nature.
Indeed, he was certainly a man of dreams that were both naïve and sophisticated, but his dreams came true far more often than the doubts harbored by many others. Being a “dreamer” might be a formula for a hard life, but no one should envy a person who has lost the ability to dream. The man was brimming with curiosity, he inspired curiosity, and I loved him.”
(Writer Amos Oz remembers Shimon Peres, 28/9/2016)
“There are few people who we share this world with who change the course of human history, not just through their role in human events, but because they expand our moral imagination and force us to expect more of ourselves. My friend Shimon was one of those people.”
(US President Barack Obama pays tribute to former Israeli President Shimon Peres, 28/09/2016)
