It is only in Hebrew that you feel the full meaning of it -- all the associations which a different word has.

When a Jew, in America or in South Africa, talks to his Jewish companions about 'our' government, he means the government of Israel.

It's not a matter of maintaining the status quo. We have to create a dynamic state, oriented towards expansion.

Not the absorption capacity of the land, but the creative ability of a people, is the true yardstick with which we can measure the immigration potentialities of the land.

In order to be a realist, you must believe in miracles.

If I knew that it was possible to save all the children of Germany by transporting them to England, and only half by transferring them to the Land of Israel, I would choose the latter, for before us lies not only the numbers of these children but the historical reckoning of the people of Israel.

I were an Arab leader, I would never sign an agreement with Israel. It is normal; we have taken their country. It is true God promised it to us, but how could that interest them? Our God is not theirs. There has been anti-Semitism, the Nazis, Hitler, Auschwitz, but was that their fault? They see but one thing: we have come and we have stolen their country. Why would they accept that?