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Elie Wiesel Writer, Holocaust Survivor
Israel

"Will you join me in hearing the case for keeping weapons from those who preach death to Israel and America?"

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Edward Said Literary Theorist, Critic, and Author
Israel

"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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Hugo Chavez Politician
Israel

"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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Hugo Chavez Politician
Israel

"Israel criticizes Hitler a lot, so do we, but they've done something very similar, even worse, than what the Nazis did."

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Desmond Tutu Theologian, Activist
Israel

"Is Zionism racism? I would say yes. It's a policy that to me looks like it has very many parallels with racism. The effect is the same. Whether you call it that or not is in a sense irrelevant."

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Israel

"SodaStream is a company that is not only committed to the environment, but to building a bridge to peace between Israel and Palestine, supporting neighbors working alongside each other, receiving equal pay, equal benefits and equal rights. That is what is happening in their Ma'ale Adumim factory every working day."

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Noam Chomsky Linguist, Philosopher, Activist
Israel

"People who call themselves supporters of Israel are actually supporters of its moral degeneration and ultimate destruction."

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Martin Buber Philosopher
Israel

"In the story of the Creation we read: ". . . And behold, it was very good." But, in the passage where Moses reproves Israel, the verse says: "See, I have set before thee this day life and good, and death and evil." Where did the evil come from? Evil too is good. It is the lowest rung of perfect goodness. If you do good deeds, even evil will become good; but if you sin, evil will really become evil."

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Leila Khaled Politician
Israel

"Like Mahmoud Abbas. He is not gaining anything. He puts conditions and Israel ignores them. Israel doesn’t give him any hint that they will accept a single one of his conditions. Let me tell you. Arafat went to Oslo and signed [the agreement]. What did Israel do? They confined him in Muqata in one room and killed him."

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Golda Meir Politician
Israel

"A story once went the rounds of Israel to the effect that Ben-Gurion described me as 'the only man' in his cabinet. What amused me about is that he (or whoever invented the story) thought that this was the greatest compliment that could be paid to a woman. I very much doubt that any man would have been flattered if I had said about him that he was the only woman in the government!"

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Alice Walker Novelist, Poet
Israel

"Israel is guilty of apartheid and persecution of the Palestinian people, both inside Israel and also in the Occupied Territories."

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Khaled Mashal Political Leader
Israel

"Resistance will continue as long as the occupation and aggression continues. There is no recognition of Israel, no matter what the cost is."

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