More Quotes
“These laws will allow full integration of people with disabilities in the workforce. We are here to tell society: People with disabilities are first and foremost people, not disabled, and we are giving them the key to full social integration. They can vote, want to vote and are determined to prove themselves.” Itzik Shmuli MK (Zionist Union) on the passing of disability bills he co-proposed, 04/08/2016
“So today, when we see leaders in Gaza calling for the murder of every Jew around the world, we all have a duty to speak out. When we hear the Supreme Leader of Iran calling for the annihilation of Israel, we have a duty to speak out.” (Honore Gatera, Director of the Kigali Genocide Memorial in Rwanda, during his visit to Yad Vashem 28/07/2016)
“It’s almost obvious why Hamas decided to participate in the upcoming elections…. This is Hamas’s opportunity to ensure they will be part and parcel of any future political process” (Prof. Shaul Mishal, head of the Middle East program at the Interdisciplinary Center in Herzliya (IDC), on Hamas’s participation in the upcoming local elections, 02/08/2016)
“Everyone who visits our country walks away with a deeper understanding of our security challenges…..The aim here is to try and get them to change their voting patterns, in the UN and beyond.” (Danny Danon, Israel’s Ambassador to the UN, speaking during a delegation of UN ambassadors to Israel, 01/08/2016)
“In Arab societies, the picture of Israeli society is that it embraces a culture of death, wants to spill blood, and does not believe in peace. That [picture] is not correct….The Israeli society that I encountered embraces a culture of peace, has accomplishments it wants to [protect], wants coexistence, and wants peace.” (Abd al-Mujid al-Hakim, a member of the Saudi Arabian delegation that recently visited Israel and the West Bank, speaking to BBC Arabic, 30/07/0216)
“I am proud our nations have been in peace for nearly four decades. Through storms, turbulence, earthquakes, we have and shall remain in peace… Together we made history by showing the world that peace between Arabs and Israelis is possible and sustainable.” (PM Benjamin Netanyahu speaking at the residence of Egypt’s Ambassador to Israel on Egypt’s national day celebrations, 28/07/2016)