Aaron Klein Quotes

As a youth, I was much more of a Zionist. But Israel was very different then. Israel's changed, and so have I.

I very much favor democracy, but when there is a contradiction between democratic and Jewish values, the Jewish and Zionist values are more important.

We established Israel as a Jewish country. I want to provide an Israel that is a Jewish, Zionist country.

Israel will not be deprived of its status as a strong, Jewish and democratic state.

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

As a Jew, support for Israel is in my DNA.

For those who share my view that the Jews as a people have a right to self-determination, Zionism as a national movement of the Jewish people is the embodiment of this very right, which its opponents want to deny.

With all its being, the Labor Party supports Israel as a Jewish and democratic state. Labor built the state, and its leaders formulated the Declaration of Independence, the foundational document that anchors Israel as a Jewish state.

This is why I am a Zionist: because Diaspora leads to hatred and the Holocaust.

The malady of the Jews is that they don't see territory as part of their identity.

Israelis are the total Jews.

We cannot separate Judaism from the Jewish State; we have to decide how to live with it.

Jewish existence in the Land of Israel depends only on the Jews, and on what the Jews think of themselves.

Israel always has a special filter to look at things, and that is the attitude toward Jews.

Breitbart is the most pro-Israel site in the United States of America.

Zionism is a revolutionary process. And in a revolution, you must be ready not to think too much about sentiments or human weaknesses.

Moses Montefiore loved Jerusalem, lived for Jerusalem, and even made it our family motto. A Zionist before the word was invented, he believed in the sacred idea of Jewish return as a religious Jew's duty, and in Jewish statehood.

I think that 'Judaizing the Galilee' is not an offensive term. We used to talk like that.

Americans are connected to the situation in the West Bank and Gaza and Israel because, generally speaking, Jewish Americans were always there, and many American Jewish people connect their nationality to the Israeli one.

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

Before the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948, Jewish leaders were intent on discovering and laying claim to their heritage in the region. They took an intense interest in archaeology, embarking on quests to bring significant items of Judaica to Palestine.

We in the Jewish Home party talk all the time about how Judea and Samaria are our homeland and they are part of Israel, so we are there to stay.

Something happened to the State of Israel. What was morally obvious in 1948 is not so obvious anymore. When the State of Israel was established, it was, for the parents and grandparents of these young Jews, a miracle. It was David and Goliath. We were the just cause. It was about values. We were small, but we were the good guys in the world!

It's very hard to talk about Palestine to Jewish people - they see me as a betrayer.

From a personal standpoint I really like that Bernie Sanders is making so much noise.