Israel

About Israel

Israel was Patriarch of the Church of the East in 961.

Position held: bishop of Kashkar, Catholicos Patriarch of the Assyrian Church of the East

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Israel was Patriarch of the Church of the East in 961.

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Notable quotes

“If the Jewish state becomes a fact, and this is realized by the Arab peoples, they will drive the Jews who live in their midst into the sea.”
— Hassan Banna, AIM TO OUST JEWS PLEDGED BY SHEIKH, New York Times, August 02, 1948
“When we returned to Palestine, the decisive question was: Do you want to come here as a friend, a brother, a member of the community of people of the Middle East or as the representatives of colonialism and of imperialism?”
— Martin Buber, "Jewish Newsletter," (June 2, 1958)
“In defeating terror, Israel’s cause is our cause.”
— Hillary Clinton, Hanukkah dinner speech at Yeshiva University (December 2005)
“It had a great and lofty wall and had twelve gates, and at the gates twelve angels, and names were inscribed which are those of the twelve tribes of the sons of Israel.”
— John the Evangelist, Revelation 21:12, New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures
“We have always said that in our war with the Arabs we had a secret weapon — no alternative. The Egyptians could run to Egypt, the Syrians into Syria. The only place we could run was into the sea, and before we did that we might as well fight.”
— Golda Meir, as quoted in LIFE magazine (3 October 1969), p. 32.
“Israel is a Western democracy … The so-called 'Middle East conflict' is not about land at all. It is not a territorial conflict. It's a conflict about ideologies; it's a battle between Islam and freedom.”
— Geert Wilders, remarks at the Free Speech Summit Columbia University, New York (21 October 2009)

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