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Quotes by Israeli Authors
"Anyone who believes you can't change history has never tried to write his memoirs."
"The international community is unwilling to accept the policies of the Iranian regime."
"The Israeli government has proved over the past year its commitment to peace, both in words and deeds. By contrast, the Palestinians are posing preconditions for renewing the diplomatic process in a way they have not done over the course of 16 years."
"That was my first lesson from Ben-Gurion. Then I saw him making peace, and I saw him making war. He mobilized me before the war. The man was a very rare combination between a real intellectual and a born leader. There is a contradiction between the two."
"It is true we have won all our wars, but we have paid for them. We don't want victories anymore."
"Ability hits the mark where presumption overshoots and diffidence falls short."
"Whether women are better than men I cannot say - but I can say they are certainly no worse."
"I explained that we would like to adjust our position on the Syrian question to theirs, as, in our view, they are the decisive factor in our relations with our neighbors, and Syria is unimportant."
"To be or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don't be."
"Without moral and intellectual independence, there is no anchor for national independence."
"Those who don't know how to weep with their whole heart, don't know how to laugh either."
"After Lockerbie, everyone thought, now we've learned the lesson of how to be proactive instead of being reactive. Unfortunately, September 11 came and we know the result. Thousands of people lost their lives. Security totally failed, not at one airport, at three different airports around the country."
"The best part of being a vegan is the purity and peace of mind one experiences and the strong connection I feel to the animal kingdom."
"There was one occasion when I was very young - eight years or seven years old - that Jewish businessmen went through the forest, and they were assassinated. And that was for the first time I saw in our paper where there were assassinations in our place."
"We know that the airports are not protected as they should be protected. The terminals are public areas, wide open - anyone can go and walk at any terminal he wants."
"We can just assume they have much more and powerful, more advanced technology, all the new computers, everything could be much more easier and help them to build much more and many more nuclear weapons."
"And I also take photos of hydrogen bomb, from another part of the building. It was not part of my job, but I succeeded to go and take photos of the hydrogen bomb."
"They can argue whatever they want. The problem is, when you interview every passenger, during the interviews you are looking for - you profile - you do profiling, to find the suspicious ones and put them out from the rest of the passengers."
"There is only so much negotiating and maneuvering that can be done while the aircraft is under siege in mid-air. Therefore, the best way to put a stop to hijacking is by having high levels of security implemented by qualified and trained personnel both on the ground and in the air."
"Fundamentalist governments and organizations endanger stability in the world."
"I was sued by a woman who claimed that she became pregnant because she watched me on television and I bent her contraceptive coil."
"One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present."
"We asked the workers to give up 25 percent of their salaries. Imagine! We asked the industrialists to freeze all costs, no matter what the inflation is."
"The Soviet government is the most realistic regime in the world - no ideals."
"So I decided the only place I can speak to the world is from outside Israel."
"Israel cannot afford to stand against the entire world and be denounced as the aggressor."
"That was my way, and I also use the music after five years, I started hearing opera, opera, it was very good instrument to keep the spirit very strong because you feel like you are yourself singing opera, and I used to hear a lot of opera, they send me tapes."
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