Quote of the week
“Israel is the only state in the world whose legitimacy is widely denied, and whose destruction is publicly advocated and threatened.”–British historian Anthony Julius
“Israel is the only state in the world whose legitimacy is widely denied, and whose destruction is publicly advocated and threatened.”–British historian Anthony Julius
Richard Nixon said, “Americans admire a people who can scratch a desert and produce a garden. The Israelis have shown qualities that Americans identify with: guts, patriotism, idealism, a passion for freedom.”
Former Israeli Ambassador to the US Michael Oren said: “Were Jesus to come today to Bethlehem (or any number of other places He ministered, like the Temple Mount) He’d be labeled a “Jewish settler.”
“Our forces saved the remnant of the Jewish people of Europe for a new life and a new hope in the reborn land of Israel. Along with all men of good will, I salute the young state and wish it well.” Dwight D Eisenhower
“The Jewish faith is predominantly the faith of liberty.” Calvin Coolidge
“In an idolatrous world, Moses speaking at God’s behest, seems desperate to carve out one small territory where monotheism can grow unmolested.” Rabbi Joseph Telushkin
”Everyone expects the Jews to be the only real Christians in this world.” ― Eric Hoffer
“What is the Jew?… What kind of unique creature is this whom all the rulers of all the nations of the world have disgraced and crushed and expelled and destroyed; persecuted, burned and drowned, and who, despite their anger and their fury, continues to live and to flourish. What is this Jew whom they have…
“We were granted the right to exist by the God of our fathers at the glimmer of the dawn of human civilization nearly 4,000 years ago. For that right, which has been sanctified in Jewish blood from generation to generation, we have paid a price unexampled in the annals of the nations.”—Menacham Begin
“The Holy One, blessed be He, created days, and took to Himself the Sabbath; He created the months, and took to Himself the festivals; He created the years, and chose for Himself the Sabbatical year; He created the Sabbatical years, and chose for Himself the Jubilee year; He created the nations, and chose for Himself…