Al Pacino
Actor, Filmmaker
"Take a look at Israel's history and you would know who the terrorist is."
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Golda Meir
Politician
"We do not rejoice in victories. We rejoice when a new kind of cotton is grown and when strawberries bloom in Israel."
Golda Meir
Politician
"We can forgive [the Arabs] for killing our children. We cannot forgive them for forcing us to kill their children. We will only have peace with [the Arabs] when they love their children more than they hate us..."
Theodor Herzl
Journalist, Writer, Political Activist
"Were I to sum up the Basle Congress in a word- which I shall guard against pronouncing publicly- it would be this: 'At Basle, I founded the Jewish State. If I said this out loud today, I would be answered by universal laughter. If not in 5 years, certainly in 50, everyone will know it.'"
Ali Khamenei
Political Leader
"It is the mission of the Islamic Republic of Iran to erase Israel from the map of the region."
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"The banding together by the nations of the world against Israel is the guarantee that their time of destruction is near and the final redemption of the Jew at hand."
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"The Syrian civil war is a "crime initiated by the United States and the Zionist regime, Israel.""
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"There is no such thing as a Palestinian people... It is not as if we came and threw them out and took their country. They didn't exist."
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"Apartheid is a crime against humanity. Israel has deprived millions of Palestinians of their liberty and property. It has perpetuated a system of gross racial discrimination and inequality. It has systematically incarcerated and tortured thousands of Palestinians, contrary to the rules of international law. It has, in particular, waged a war against a civilian population, in particular children."
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"Israel is a hideous entity in the middle east which will undoubtedly be annihilated."
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"We shall try to spirit the penniless population across the border by procuring employment for it in the transit countries, while denying it any employment in our own country .... expropriation and the removal of the poor must be carried out discreetly and circumspectly."
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"If we have to have a choice between being dead and pitied, and being alive with a bad image, we'd rather be alive and have the bad image."
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"Between what is going on in Iraq and Mumia being locked up unjustly, things going on in Israel, Palestine, we don't really have anyone right now like Gandhi. We don't have anyone like Martin Luther King or Malcolm X anymore. It's really a reference to a vision of hope, like someone like Gandhi."
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"The zionist argument to justify Israel's present occupation of Arab Palestine has no intelligent or legal basis in history."
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"Our forces saved the remnants 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."
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"Iran's stance has always been clear on this ugly phenomenon (Israel). We have repeatedly said that this cancerous tumor of a state should be removed from the region. No one will allow a bunch of thugs, lechers and outcasts from London, America and Moscow to rule over the Palestinians."
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"There will be no recognition of Israel and there will be no security for the occupation and colonization forces. Resistance will remain our strategic option."
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"Let me tell you what the Cain Doctrine would be, as it relates to Israel if I were president. You mess with Israel, you are messing with the United States of America!"
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"The view of Jerusalem is the history of the world; it is more, it is the history of earth and of heaven."
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"This country exists as the fulfillment of a promise made by God Himself. It would be ridiculous to ask it to account for its legitimacy."
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"President Obama Tastes the Bitter Fruit of Appeasement...of Israel, not Iran"
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"Will you join me in hearing the case for keeping weapons from those who preach death to Israel and America?"
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"Take a young man from Gaza living in the most horrendous conditions - most of it imposed by Israel - who straps dynamite around himself and then throws himself into a crowd of Israelis. I've never condoned or agreed with it, but at least it is understandable as the desperate wish of a human being who feels himself being crowded out of life and all of his surroundings, who sees his fellow citizens, other Palestinians, his parents, sisters, and brothers, suffering, being injured, or being killed. He wants to do something, to strike back."
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"Israel has gone mad. It's attacking, doing the same thing to the Palestinian and Lebanese people that they have criticised - and with reason - the Holocaust . But this is a new Holocaust."
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"The fake Zionist [regime] will disappear from the landscape of geography."
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