Quotes about Israel “Israel was not created in order to disappear- Israel will endure and flourish.” - John. F. Kennedy

OCTOBER 27, 2016 01:42

Updated: NOVEMBER 4, 2016 13:45

Powerful quotes about Israel which emphasize the statement that Israel is nothing but the only democracy in the Middle East which yearns for peace.

“From the day I started to think politically and to develop my own moral values, from my earliest youth, I have been an ardent defender of Israel.”

- Steven Spielberg

“Israel is the only democracy in the Middle East.”

- Jack Schwartz

“There will be peace in the Middle East only when the Arabs love their children more than they hate Israel.”

- Golda Meir

“As a people, our monuments never commemorate victories. They commemorate the names of the fallen. We don’t need the Arc de Triomphe; we have Masada, Tel-Hai, and the Warsaw Ghetto – where the battle was lost, but the war of Jewish existence was won.”

–David Elazar

“Israel itself is the strongest guarantee against another Holocaust.”

- Golda Meir

“Israel was not created in order to disappear- Israel will endure and flourish. It is the child of hope and the home of the brave. It can neither be broken by adversity nor demoralized by success. It carries the shield of democracy and it honors the sword of freedom.”

- John F. Kennedy

“The world hates a Jew who hits back. The world loves us only when we are to be pitied.”

- Golda Meir

“How can we return the occupied territories? There is nobody to return them to.”

- Golda Meir

“Our hope - the two-thousand-year-old hope - will not be lost:

To be a free people in our land,

The land of Zion and Jerusalem.”

- Naphtali Herz Imber

"In Israel, in order to be a realist, you must believe in miracles."

- David Ben-Gurion