More Quotes
“Instead of the anti-normalisation campaign, Palestinian interests require the implementation of a direct and strategic campaign to engage Israelis and to impress the Israeli public. Without cooperation, without communication and normalisation, peace is impossible. And that’s precisely our goal.”
(Professor Mohammed S. Dajani, peace activist and founder of the Wasatia movement of moderate Islam, speaking to the Washington Institute, 13/09/2016)
“At a time when we’re tightening our belts across the board, with the harmful sequestration spending cuts set to return in just a couple years, this Memorandum of Understanding nonetheless greatly increases our military assistance commitment to Israel. And that’s not an accident. It’s a reminder of the United States’ unshakeable commitment to Israel’s security.”
(US National Security Advisor Susan Rice speaking at the signing of the new ten-year military aid agreement between Israel and the USA, 14/09/2016)
“For as long as the state of Israel has existed, the United States has been Israel’s greatest friend and partner, a fact underscored again today.”
(US President Barack Obama, on the signing of a new military aid deal between the US and Israel, 14/09/2016)
“I can tell you exactly where I draw the line. If people call Israel nasty, I to some degree agree. But if they carry on saying that therefore there should be no Israel, that’s where anti-Zionism becomes antisemitism, because none of them ever said after Hitler that Germany should cease to exist, or after Stalin that there should be no Russia.”
(Israeli author Amos Oz speaking in an interview with BBC Newsnight, 13/09/2016)
“Vis-à-vis the US Israel should adopt a much smarter, effective and flexible foreign policy than it has today. The Americans understand that Israel has its own interests and that we will never bow to [the Americans]. They just don’t understand why this policy has to involve our insulting them, solely with the aim of accruing political gain here in Israel.”
(Yair Lapid, Chairman of Yesh Atid, speaking at the 16th International Conference on Counter-Terrorism held at the Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya, 12/09/2016)
“We remember the victims. We embrace their loved ones. We stand with our greatest ally, the United States of America, and with other partners in the battle against militant Islamic terrorism that spreads its fear, its dread, its murder around the world.”
(Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu marking the 15th anniversary of 9/11, 11/09/2016)
