“Today I hope that the light of truth will shine, if only for a few minutes, in a hall that for too long has been a place of darkness for my country. So as Israel’s prime minister, I didn’t come here to win applause. I came here to speak the truth. The truth is —…
“Decisions that are binding on UN members pass through the Security Council. I am convinced that the activity of the US, which is deeply cooperating with us, as well as the activity of other governments with which we are also cooperating, will result in the failure of this attempt. The UN also has the General…
“History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.”—Abba Eban
“The American public has few foreign policy preferences that are this marked, this deep, this enduring—and this much at odds with public opinion in other countries.”—Walter Russell Mead of the Council on Foreign Relations writing about the US’s position on Israel.
“The crucial element determining the success or failure of American policy is the fate of Israel.”—-Ronald Reagan
“Obama’s preference for posture over policy is nothing new. It has been his standard operating procedure throughout the region. When the Iranian people rose up against their regime in June 2009 in the Green Revolution, Obama stood on the sidelines. As is his habit, he acted as though the job of the US President is…
“Only those who cry out for the Jews may also sing the Gregorian chant.”—Dietrich Bonhoeffer, leading voice among German protestant theologians against Hitler
“It is highly unlikely that the Fatah-Hamas partnership will last. Apart from their mutual vilification of Israel, the two factions cannot agree on the color of hummus.” Jonathan Schanzer, Political Pundit for Commentary
“Those who hammer their guns into plows, will plow for those who do not.”—Thomas Jefferson
“What is permanent in the kingdom of God under the Old Testament is PRESUMED in the New.”—David Brown, nineteenth century Bible commentator