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" Facts cannot be replaced by opinion. "
Yair Lapid
Cannot
Replaced
Facts
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" Decisions are never easy. If they were easy, they wouldn't be called decisions. "
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" The State of Israel was not established by anxiety but, rather, through pride. "
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" Israeli teachers are not required to hold an academic degree, and their salaries are the lowest in the Western world. "
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" The democratic system is premised on trust in the masses' wisdom. We believe that the collective is wiser than its parts and that, at the end of the day, it shall make the right choices and take the right decisions. "
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" My children receive education that greatly emphasizes the fact they are part of a human group that has tradition, collective memory, and a state. I am a great believer in the need for Israel to be a Jewish state. I certainly believe my children will pass that on to their children. "
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" I'm not particularly fond of Shoah jokes, yet there is one I cannot forget: Why was Auschwitz an optimistic place? Because all the pessimists were already in New York by then. "
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" I have written to Israel's friends around the world, including the U.S. Congress and the E.U., and asked them to make funding for the United Nations dependent on ending blatant discrimination against Israel at the U.N. Human Rights Council. "
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" Israelis want peace and security, and Palestinians want peace and justice - these are two very different things, and this is the real gap we have to close. "
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" I'm going into politics because I think that the kind of discourse taking place in Israel is leading this country to oblivion, and I want to change it. "
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" I want to live in a country that is not just a place but also an idea, and Jerusalem is the heart of the idea. There may be practical considerations, but a country cannot exist without an ethos, and Jerusalem is an ethos. "
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