#rae

We can forgive the Arabs for killing our children. We cannot forgive them for forcing us to kill their children. We will only have peace with the Arabs when they love their children more than they hate us. ↗

— Golda Meir

#sad-truth #forgiveness

Russia contains one fourth of the inhabitants of all Europe, and one half of the entire number of Israelites. ↗

— Isaac Mayer Wise

#entire #europe #fourth #half #inhabitants

Now, when I hear that Christians are getting together in order to defend the people of Israel, of course it brings joy to my heart. And it simply says, look, people have learned from history. ↗

— Elie Wiesel

#christians #course #defend #getting #hear

But if Sharon wants to occupy Gaza, let him come. Israel will pay the price. ↗

— Ahmed Yassin

#gaza #him #israel #occupy #pay

It is an exaggeration to call the Hamas and Islamic Jihad announcement a military alliance. It is rather a message that our people are united in the face of Israeli aggression. ↗

— Ahmed Yassin

#alliance #announcement #call #exaggeration #face

Our main battle has always been against Israeli soldiers and Jewish settlers. ↗

— Ahmed Yassin

#always #battle #been #israeli #jewish

Since Israel does not differentiate between attacking this group or that, we are saying our people can work individually or collectively to face this aggression. ↗

— Ahmed Yassin

#attacking #between #collectively #differentiate #does

The attacks inside Israel are operations we carry out in response to Israeli crimes against our people. ↗

— Ahmed Yassin

#attacks #carry #crimes #inside #israel

We did not fight the Americans or the Europeans. We fight only the Israeli enemy that took our homes and homeland. ↗

— Ahmed Yassin

#enemy #europeans #fight #homeland #homes

The little boats cannot make much difference to the welfare of Gaza either way, since the materials being shipped are in such negligible quantity. The chief significance of the enterprise is therefore symbolic. And the symbolism, when examined even cursorily, doesn't seem too adorable. The intended beneficiary of the stunt is a ruling group with close ties to two of the most retrograde dictatorships in the Middle East, each of which has recently been up to its elbows in the blood of its own civilians. The same group also manages to maintain warm relations with, or at the very least to make cordial remarks about, both Hezbollah and al-Qaida. Meanwhile, a document that was once accurately described as a 'warrant for genocide' forms part of the declared political platform of the aforesaid group. There is something about this that fails to pass a smell test. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#al-qaeda #antisemitism #dictatorship #freedom-flotilla-ii #gaza