Ariel Sharon Quotes

I'm more Jewish than you think I am...I read the part of the Bible that said the Jews are God's chosen people.

For thousands of years, we Jews have been nourished and sustained by a yearning for our historic land …. I believed and to this day still believe in our people's eternal and historic right to this entire land.

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

Open a Jewish daily prayer book used in any part of the world, and Zionism will leap out at you.

The whole point of Israel was to create a place where Jews could live the best life - and liveliest - in accordance with their values.

The first thing to be said about 'Prague Winter,' former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright's new book, is that she very wisely chooses to confront early on in it her apparent surprise at learning late in life that she was born Jewish.

The Land of Israel needs to build and be built, period.

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

My whole life has a Jewish flavour.

I grew up happily immersed in Jewish culture and community.

In my DNA, the Zionist gene is extremely strong.

I believe that the Jewish state will exist forever.

My grandparents and great-grandparents were classic East European/Russian Jewry. Quasky was the name until Grandpa Quasky changed it in 1948.

I love Israel, am proud of it.

I love the people of Israel. I love the land of Israel. I love the Torah of Israel. I love the Israel Defense Forces. I love our soldiers. If you feel the same way I do, you have a home.

It matters a great deal that I come from a Jewish background.

I'm not a practicing Jew but my great-grandparents were. It's part of our family history.

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.

All the Jewish tradition I had came from my grandmother, who grew up in Palestine and eloped with my grandfather and went to New York. She lived very close to us until she died when I was around 20. She sang a lot of songs, led the Passover seders. It was a very rich part of my life, and my grandmother was a big part of my life.

I was born in Israel. My parents came in 1925.

We were at a kibbutz, and we were at a Shabbat service, and I opened up the prayer book, and on the first page, it said that the prayer book was in thanks to the sponsorship of this family in a temple in Kansas City. For me, it was a moment when I really kind of connected in a real serious way with my personal identity as a Jew.

United Jerusalem has been and will forever be the capital of the Jewish People.

We are one family, and the connection between all Jews, all over the world, is very important to the State of Israel.

I love the nation of Israel. I love Jewish people. My King was Jewish, and I embrace that.

Judaism is a big part of my background, obviously, and my reality.