Pastoral Resources

I can certainly put myself in Israel's shoes. They are humans just like we are. They want peace and security inside their borders.

The idea that you can make love and not war really is pretty neat. That thing in Korea, the thing in Israel - that's all over the world. There must be a new way of thinking.

I have also written a book about the Giving of the Torah, and a book on the Days of Awe, and a book on the books of Israel that have been written since the day the Torah was given to Israel.

At the age of nineteen and a half, I went to the Land of Israel to till its soil and live by the labour of my hands. As I did not find work, I sought my livelihood elsewhere.

As a result of the historic catastrophe in which Titus of Rome destroyed Jerusalem and Israel was exiled from its land, I was born in one of the cities of the Exile.

Well, I grew up between Holland and Israel and then moved to France when I was eleven.

The Holocaust is a central event in many people's lives, but it also has become a metaphor for our century. There cannot be an end to speaking and writing about it. Besides, in Israel, everyone carries a biography deep inside him.

We plan to eliminate the state of Israel and establish a purely Palestinian state. We will make life unbearable for Jews by psychological warfare and population explosion. We Palestinians will take over everything, including all of Jerusalem.

Peace for us means the destruction of Israel. We are preparing for an all-out war, a war which will last for generations.

It's always convenient for certain people to heap accusations on Israel.

Israel has created a new image of the Jew in the world - the image of a working and an intellectual people, of a people that can fight with heroism.

Pakistan has not recognized Israel... any such decision would be taken in supreme national interests after due consultation of the parliament.

The Palestinian Authority refuses on an ongoing basis to take the necessary steps to prevent terrorists from getting into Israel.

Until 1956, America treated Israel not much differently from other friendly states.

The question is no longer whether the United States should contribute to assuring Israel's survival and prosperity; that goes without saying.

Not only must Americans admire Israel, there can be no doubt that we have an interest in, and special responsibility for, that valiant nation.

Israel is still the only country in the world against which there is a written document to the effect that it must disappear.

I've always been supportive of the right of Israel as a state, and I've always fought against anti-Semitism, even in my own community.

Our Christian conviction is that Christ is also the messiah of Israel. Certainly it is in the hands of God how and when the unification of Jews and Christians into the people of God will take place.

American foreign policy has been - and must continue to be - based on unequivocal support for Israel's right to exist and to be free from terror.