Ariel Sharon Quotes

Jews outside Israel live in permanent contradiction. I think they should come home.

Zionism and pessimism are not compatible.

Most students have thoughts about emigrating to Israel. A significant number go on aliyah. We are proud of our Israel programs, which come at a considerable cost to the university.

If I have to advise our brothers in France, I'll tell them one thing - move to Israel, as early as possible. I say that to Jews all around the world, but there I think it's a must and they have to move immediately.

Shall They Return to Jerusalem Again?

There are eleven million Jews in the world. I don't say that all of them will come here, but I expect several million, and with natural increase I can quite imagine a Jewish state of ten million.

I think a lot of Jews make Israel the centerpiece of their Judaism. It becomes the centerpiece of their Jewish existence and of their faith. I have always felt that that's not for me.

Israel has been a stage on which American Jews have played out their fantasies of toughness - often from Martha's Vineyard.

It's hard for a Jew of my generation, an American Jew, who is philo-Zionistic, not to romanticize Israel.

I was born in Israel, to Canadian parents. My father immigrated in 1948, part of a wave of young men and women who came as pioneers, to fight for a Jewish homeland. Their motive was in large part a reaction to the Holocaust, and their slogan was 'Never Again.'

At the age of nineteen and a half, I went to the Land of Israel to till its soil and live by the labour of my hands. As I did not find work, I sought my livelihood elsewhere.

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.

I have no fear that the candle lighted in Palestine years ago will ever be put out.

If ever I have the occasion to help in the restoration of the Jewish people to Palestine, I shall surely do so.

I hope that a Jewish Army 100,000 strong will to move into Palestine and reclaim it as a Judean kingdom..

If the Jews all gather in Israel, it will save us the trouble of going after them worldwide.

We Arabs, especially the educated among us, look with the deepest sympathy on the Zionist movement …. We all wish the Jews a most hearty welcome home.

The Jewish State Der Judenstaat

I really wish the Jews again in Judea, an independent nation.

My thinking is dominated by the future of Israel and the Jewish people wherever they are—in 30 years or 300 years.

My family's dream, and my own, was to live in Israel, and our eventual voyage to the port of Jaffa was like making a dream come true. Had it not been for this dream and this voyage, I would probably have perished in the flames, as did so many of my people, among them most of my own family.

I am a Jew, and I'm convinced that Israel is the homeland.

The Jewish journey started in the land of Israel, and it always strove to return there against all odds and all limitations.

I respect Israel as hugely special, especially given all the sensitivities around it. The Jews managed to build a country, to elevate it, without anything except people and brains.

But we wish to give the Jews a Homeland. Not by dragging them ruthlessly out of their sustaining soil, but rather by removing them carefully, roots and all, to a better terrain.