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" The State of Israel was not established so that the anti-Semites will disappear but, rather, so we can tell them to get lost. "
Yair Lapid
Get
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Israel
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" Twenty percent of students in Israel's schools are haredim; another 20% are retired; another 20% are Arab. I have no problem with any of them. "
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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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" Journalists always explain that people are mad at them because they tell the truth, which is often unpleasant or uncomfortable to hear. However, they fail in situations where there is more than one truth. "
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" I studied math, and I was terrible at it. "
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" Freedom of expression is tested during times of anger and conflict and enables all opinions and outraged expressions of dissent that we may not want to hear. But even for this there have to be limits. "
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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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" There's always a reason not to do anything... to flee the need to make decisions. "
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" Even in an enlightened democracy, the media have to check themselves to make sure they are not contributing to an unnecessary mass hysteria. "
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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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" One of the hardest things is to create hope. "
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" Hebrew is the language I use to thank the Creator and, also, to swear on the road. "
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" I am a man of tomorrow, but I also live my past. "
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Am
" If, for 2,000 years, you dress up differently, believe in a different God, celebrate different holidays, and on top of it insist on telling everyone that you're completely different than them, ultimately they'll believe you. "
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Celebrate
Dress
" Why doesn't anyone remember that the Palestinians already had four real opportunities to establish their state, yet each time they preferred to revert to terrorism? "
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Terrorism
" I do not deal with threats and ultimatums. "
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Threats
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" Yesh Atid is a Jewish, religious-secular party. Our DNA is center - both Left and Right. The difference between center-left and center-right is more emotional and hereditary than having to do with what people think about the Palestinians. "
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Right
Think
" 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 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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Politics
People
" 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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Always
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" Israeli citizens deserve full-time ministers. "
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" Politicians around the world are very different, but they all have one thing in common: The first thing they respond to is public opinion. "
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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 Internet, Facebook, synagogue pamphlets, and the plethora of TV channels and cellular networks in our lives increasingly blur the boundary between the public and private sphere. "
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" I want to do everything in my power to ensure the equality between all movements of Judaism in the state of Israel: Orthodox, Conservative, or Reform. In conversions, in budgets, in the eyes of the law. No one can claim ownership over the Jewish God. "
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" I am a Zionist. "
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" Facts cannot be replaced by opinion. "
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" People like to invent enemies. It spares us the need to address complex worldviews. "
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