The World Motivation
We have organized lobbyists in favor of Israel. You can't open your mouth. I can call the president of the United States anything in the book, but if you say one thing about Israel, and you're off limits.
“We have organized lobbyists in favor of Israel. You can't open your mouth. I can call the president of the United States anything in the book, but if you say one thing about Israel, and you're off limits.”
— Helen Thomas · Israel
We have organized lobbyists in favor of Israel. You can't open your mouth. I can call the president of the United States anything in the book, but if you say one thing about Israel, and you're off limits.
I covered two presidents, LBJ and Nixon, who could no longer convince, persuade, or govern, once people had decided they had no credibility, but we seem to be more tolerant now of what I think we should not tolerate.
It's time for women to make their voices heard. Their silence on the subject of war and peace is deafening.
The United States has tried for years to live down President Franklin D. Roosevelt's order during World War II to move Japanese-Americans on the West Coast to inland detention camps on grounds that they might be disloyal.
In my mind the city of Ariel is a thorn in Israel's side and a serious obstacle to peace.
Israel has an important principle: It is only Israel that is responsible for our security.
If history remembers me at all, in any way, I hope it will be as a man who loved the Land of Israel and watched over it in every way he could, all his life.
Israel does not start wars.
Israel may have the right to put others on trial, but certainly no one has the right to put the Jewish people and the State of Israel on trial.