George Galloway during the Zionist assault on Lebanon in 2006.
"They are bombing entire cities, it is a true genocide. Where will this madness end? God only knows! It extends from Iraq to Lebanon and Palestine. Let's hope it doesn't spread further."
Hugo Chavez
"The most virulent, loud, and high-handed critics of North Korea are the same ones that, in view of Israeli aggression against innocent men, women and children, say nothing."
Imam Khomeini of Iran. - June 4, 1983
"I warn the governments of the Islamic countries…They should know that Israel, as I have said again and again and as you have heard time and again, will not be satisfied with these agreements. It sees the Arab governments from the Nile to the Euphrates as usurpers, and sooner or later with the help of America it will put its malicious plan into action if, God forbid, it should find the opportunity and if the Arab governments do not awaken from their deep slumber. Is it not a source of shame for the Muslims and the governments of the Islamic countries that America, from the other side of the world, can govern their destinies and through the usurping infidel, Israel, can ensnare and ruin them all?"
Marc Grossman, Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs, March 19, 2003
"And in terms of whether the first thing they (Iraqis) do will be to recognize the State of Israel, I have no idea. But I certainly hope it's among the very first things that they do."
William Kristal writes in Weekly Standard (July 24, 2006)
Why is this Arab-Israeli war different from all other Arab-Israeli wars? Because it's not an Arab-Israeli war. Most of Israel's traditional Arab enemies have checked out of the current conflict. The governments of Egypt, Jordan, Iraq, and Saudi Arabia are, to say the least, indifferent to the fate of Hamas and Hezbollah. The Palestine Liberation Organization (Fatah) isn't a player. The prime mover behind the terrorist groups who have started this war is a non-Arab state, Iran, which wasn't involved in any of Israel's previous wars…What's happening in the Middle East, then, isn't just another chapter in the Arab-Israeli conflict. What's happening is an Islamist-Israeli war.
Senator Joseph Biden as reported by the Jewish weekly - The Forward
There has never been progress in the Middle East without the United States acting as a catalyst. We should have some very important person on the ground there, ready to explore all the initiatives… In the meantime, we should not be out there proposing a route of settlement, imposing a route of settlement… The idea that we don't have somebody 24/7 available to the leaders of Israel, on the ground - thinking of nothing but the Israelis' interest and how they negotiate through this incredibly dangerous neighborhood they live in - is a big mistake."
The Jewish Forward boasting about the power of Jewish groups
Despite the tensions on the Gaza border, Israel has won some notable diplomatic victories in recent days, few of them more dramatic or gratifying than the twin victories scored last week. On June 21, the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies voted overwhelmingly to admit Israel to membership, after decades of exclusion. A day later, the Presbyterian Church (USA) overturned its 2004 decision to divest from certain companies doing business with Israel. Both victories came largely as a result of intensive diplomatic efforts by American Jewish organizations, which used every political, philanthropic and interfaith-dialogue tool at their collective disposal to overcome these gratuitous assaults on Israel's legitimacy.
http://www.forward.com/articles/diplomatic-victories/
