#wish

Children wish fathers looked but with their eyes; fathers that children with their judgment looked; and either may be wrong. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#either #eyes #fathers #judgment #looked

The driving force for the Arabs is hatred of Israel. Hatred of the Jewish people. ↗

— Yitzhak Shamir

#driving #driving force #force #hatred #israel

The opportunities which the present position open up for a lasting and radical solution of the most vexing problem of the Jewish state are so far-reaching as to take one's breath away. ↗

— Moshe Sharett

#breath #far-reaching #jewish #jewish state #lasting

Israel may have the right to put others on trial, but certainly no one has the right to put the Jewish people and the State of Israel on trial. ↗

— Ariel Sharon

#israel #jewish #jewish people #may #others

As a Jew, it is my historic responsibility to defend the Jewish people. I feel this responsibility for the survival of the Jewish people. We're not going to accept any decision by anybody else about security of the State of Israel. It is our role and only our role. ↗

— Ariel Sharon

#accept #any #anybody #decision #defend

I don't think I have accomplished what I still have to accomplish. There is one thing that I would like to do, and that's to bring security and peace to the Jewish people. ↗

— Ariel Sharon

#accomplished #bring #i #jewish #jewish people

It is impossible to have a Jewish, democratic state and at the same time to control all of Eretz Israel. If we insist on fulfilling the dream in its entirety, we are liable to lose it all. Everything. That is where the extremist path takes us. ↗

— Ariel Sharon

#democratic #democratic state #dream #entirety #everything

The sad and horrible conclusion is that no one cared that Jews were being murdered... This is the Jewish lesson of the Holocaust and this is the lesson which Auschwitz taught us. ↗

— Ariel Sharon

#being #cared #conclusion #holocaust #horrible

To the citizens of Israel, I say: we have passed difficult years, faced the most painful experiences and overcame them. The future lies before us. We are required to take difficult and controversial steps, but we must not miss the opportunity to try to achieve what we have wished for, for so many years: security, tranquillity and peace. ↗

— Ariel Sharon

#before #citizens #controversial #difficult #experiences

We have no desire to permanently rule over millions of Palestinians, who double their numbers every generation. Israel, which wishes to be an exemplary democracy, will not be able to bear such a reality over time. The Disengagement Plan presents the possibility of opening a gate to a different reality. ↗

— Ariel Sharon

#bear #democracy #desire #different #disengagement