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" The liberals will surely argue that every person has the right to fall in love with no regard to religion, creed or gender, but I am not that liberal. "
Yair Lapid
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" In politics, there is only one crime that is unforgivable - showing weakness. "
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" Succeeding in life is a difficult business - you need to work 16 hours a day, face failures along the way, remember that nobody owes you a thing, and take risks. "
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" The Human Rights Organisation deceives the world by calling itself a human rights council. "
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" Arab society features apartheid of women, apartheid of homosexuals, and apartheid of Christians, Jews, and democracy. "
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" The Palestinians must be brought to an understanding that Jerusalem will always remain under Israeli sovereignty and that there is no point for them in opening negotiations about Jerusalem. "
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" An old friend of mine, an economist by trade, once explained to me that the statistical definition of 'dilemma' is 49.9% in favor and 50.1% against. If the gap is greater, there is no dilemma, because the answer is clear. "
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" Netanyahu needs to stand before the Israeli public and say, 'I failed.' "
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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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" The settlers, as we know, are the only people in Israel who take the Left seriously. When you read the settlers' publications, you think that the leftists are everywhere: The leftists infiltrate the government, the leftists run the Defense Ministry, the leftists dominate the legal establishment, and the leftists control the media, of course. "
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" The Israeli public's willingness to enlist, the warm embrace for the soldiers and the residents of the south, and the desire to contribute and to give at any given moment really warm the heart, and it gives all of us strength. "
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" I'm willing to take a polygraph test to prove that I'm happy about Kahlon's return to politics. He's a good man, a man who cares. It's good to have people like that in politics, I have no problem with that. "
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" People in Israel are sick and tired of the old politics. "
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" I think that haredi children should study the core subjects and that their parents must work, and I believe that there are many haredim who think like me and would be glad to discover that someone is fighting the radical functionaries and rabbis who embitter their lives. "
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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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" Judaism shouldn't be the jailhouse of ideas but a liberator of ideas; not a disintegrator of people but what brings people together. "
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" Jerusalem will remain under Israeli sovereignty and will not be divided. "
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" I like Tel Aviv; I live in Tel Aviv, but our right of return is Jerusalem. We did not return after 2,000 years for Tel Aviv but for Jerusalem. "
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" The Israeli media are very important to me. I've been part of them and they a part of me all my adult life. "
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" Israel's middle class is paying for those below it, and that's fine, but also for those who are above it, and that's very wrong. "
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" Holocaust survivors came to Israel in order to establish a new human society where nobody would be able to hurt them just because they're Jewish. This is both a furious and vulnerable message. "
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" One of the greatest fears of the Arab world is a direct conflict between Israel and the Islamic State. "
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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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