Molly Antopol Quotes

Israeli suffering has to be understood.

When people want to inspire you to turn against some group of people, they'll often use empathy. When Obama wanted to bomb Syria, he drew our attention to the victims of chemical warfare. And in both of the Iraq wars, politicians said, "Look at the horrific things that are happening." I'm not a pacifist. I think the suffering of innocent people can be a catalyst for moral action. But empathy puts too much weight on the scale in favor of war. Empathy can really lead to violence.

I was not pleased that Hamas has refused to announce its desire to destroy Israel.

Israelis must be encouraged to defeat the Palestinians.

I don't take sides for or against Hezbollah or for or against Israel.

And, you see, we are living in a world in which all wars are wars of defense.

The aggressive, unprovoked acts of violence against Israel by Hezbollah and Hamas are revealing. It is clear they don't want peace, but rather seek the ultimate destruction of Israel.

Hamas, also elected to governmental leadership in Palestine, includes the jihadists, people who have declared war on the United States of America and its ally, Israel.

The Iranians and the Syrians, sipping their coffee in their cafes discussing politics, want to fight the Israelis to the last Lebanese and the last Palestinian.

The long war of words and writing ends in blows.

The Arab League has made opposition to Israel the only common goal of its otherwise quarrelsome membership.

All efforts to render politics aesthetic culminate in one thing: war.

It takes a certain political initiative to make people kill one another.

I am familiar with what goes on in the Arab countries, and I'm sad to say that most of us want to annihilate Israel. We want to kill all the Israelis... Do you know what they used to say in the mosques in Egypt? "We want to go to the White House and turn it into the Islamic House..." We call upon the Arab countries to stop teaching hatred to the Arab children.

Perpetual war for perpetual peace.

War and democracy have never been happy bedfellows…. War has always threatened democracy.

Yasser Arafat is not preparing his people for reconciliation. He is preparing them for Jihad.

The Newspaper wants me to by neutral with respect to Germany, as if anyone could be neutral in this war.

Arafat carried out what I consider to be atrocities.

Arafat is the greatest instigator of terror.

In their war against Israel's existence, the Arab governments took advantage of the Cold War. They enlisted the military, economic, and political support of the communist world against Israel, and they turned a local, regional conflict into an international powder keg.

They say that truth is the first casualty of war. But there is another casualty as well: trust. As conflict escalates, trust between people and political leaders crumbles away as surely as night follows day.

The war against terrorism is terrorism. The whole thing is just bullshit.

Barack Obama has done more than anyone else to promote the dangerous illusion that we can choose whether to have a war or not. But our enemies have already made that choice. Retired Marine Corps General James Mattis said: “No war is over until the enemy says it's over. We may think it's over, we may declare it over, but in fact, the enemy gets a vote“.

I think about Syria when I go to bed at night.