More Quotes
“This is a good opportunity to help and show them that their neighbours are wonderful people… What we are doing by creating this safe zone is preventing the departure of more refugees.” (Moti Kahana, founder of Syrian aid NGO Amaliah, on the recently authorised Israeli humanitarian aid deliveries into Southern Syria, 27/07/2016).
“This attack shows the true face of the brutal nature and horror of terrorism. This is an attack by radical extremists, terrorists, who have struck at the very symbol of peace and murdered in cold blood in a house of God, while they pretend to speak in His name.” (Israel’s President Reuven Rivlin on the attack on a church in France, 26/07/2016)
“The way it is now, we’re not going to be able to get very far in any kind of negotiation. Because negotiation requires a culture of peace and not a culture of death. So I am hoping that Mahmoud Abbas, who heads the PA, who heads the Fatah movement, will tear down that monument.” (Dore Gold, director-general of the Israeli Foreign Ministry, speaking on the impact of the PA’s policy to glorify terrorists, 25/07/2016)
“We need great leaders on both sides in order to sign a peace agreement. This is what I said during my meeting with General Anwar Eshki, a representative of the Saudi Royal Family… I also told him that Saudi Arabia has an important – even central – role in the process and General Eshki agreed.” (MK Omer Barlev on Anwar Eshki’s visit to Israel in a statement via Facebook, 22/07/2016)
“They will be marching for one principle: all human beings are equal, all human beings were created in God’s image, all human beings have a right to live their lives as they choose, with dignity and security.” (Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyhu on Jerusalem’s gay pride march in a Facebook post, 21/07/2016)
“Through this new partnership with the British Government, Palestinian graduate students are already contributing to world-leading research at the Hebrew University, and we are delighted to have them with us. This program not only advances science, but through it sends a message of hope and friendship, and of the importance of working together to find solutions that improve the health of our communities.” (Professor Menahem Ben-Sasson, President of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, on two new research programmes in which the UK government will work with Israeli and Palestinian scientists on water and health issues, 20/07/2016)