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We have to be able to say that Israel’s treatment of Palestinians is apartheid. Period.

The fundamental unavoidable reality at the heart of the [Israel-Palestine] conflict is that there is an asymmetry of power here. One side is the occupier. The other side is occupied.

I will not support an effort to enable war crimes and human rights abuses and violence. We cannot be talking only about Israelis’ need for safety at a time when Palestinians are living under a violent apartheid system and are dying from what Human Rights Watch has said are war crimes.

Israel has managed to maintain its oppressive system using not just the guns of soldiers, but also by keeping this nuclear gun pointed at the heads of millions.

The so-called Iran threat could be dealt with by establishing a nuclear-weapons-free zone in the Middle East. Everyone is in favor of that, including Iran. The U.S. blocks it because they would have to open up Israeli nuclear weapons to inspection.

Joe Biden should end the US pretence over Israel’s ‘secret’ nuclear weapons.

Every time we do something you tell me America will do this and will do that . . . I want to tell you something very clear: Don’t worry about American pressure on Israel. We, the Jewish people, control America, and the Americans know it.

Take a look at Israel’s history and you would know who the terrorist is.

Bombing children and targeting houses of worship is wrong. I pray that I never pledge allegiance to any ideology or methodology that would stop me from believing that.

The Israeli government has such an assumption of impunity. It can do anything and get away with it and have the complicity of the media in the United States and in the West.

The pro-Israel lobby has been remarkably successful in suppressing criticism. Politicians challenge it at their peril because of the lobby’s ability to influence political contributions.

The United States should not be rubber-stamping weapons sales to the Israeli government as they deploy our resources to target international media outlets, schools, hospitals, humanitarian missions and civilian sites for bombing. We have a responsibility to protect human rights.

The reason the American debate over Israel-Palestine could shift dramatically and quickly is that many Democratic politicians don’t need to be convinced that what Israel is doing is wrong. They just need to be convinced that they can say so without hurting their careers.

Israel would not be in 20 years, it would be gone. It certainly will not be a democracy. It will be an apartheid regime and the world will just reject it as they did South Africa. I’m now saying it will be gone.

Arabs and Mulims are not terrorists.The world should unite against Israel.

You cannot continue to victimize someone else just because you yourself were a victim once—there has to be a limit.

There won’t be a Palestinian state within Israel.

In more than a decade of his right-wing rule in Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu has cultivated an increasingly intolerant and authoritarian type of racist nationalism.

The propaganda machine that comes out of Israel when it comes to the precious humanity of Palestinians is just sad. But it has so much to do with mass complicity. It has to do with The New York Times and The Washington Post, and CNN and MSNBC, and others, not wanting to be truthful about themselves.

They [Israel] say their collapse is nearing, and they won’t make it to their 80th birthday. We said a few years ago they wouldn’t reach the next 20 or 25-year point. But they themselves are in a rush and want to leave sooner.

The [Israeli] Supreme Court has regularly authorized illegal settlements, illegal occupation measures, brutal restrictions on Palestinians within the occupied territories, almost daily occurrences of violence.

If the American Government withdraws its support for Israel and stop all military aid to the regime, Israel would not have carried out the genocide and mass murders of Palestinians with impunity.

And I also think that as a Jewish person, like I was fed a huge amount of lies about Israel my entire life. You know, they never tell you, that oh by the way, there were people there. They make it seem like it was– just sitting there. Oh the fucking door’s open!

Were there not an Israel, the United States of America would have to invent an Israel to protect its interests.

Israel and its IDF are the terrorists. The United States is blatantly supporting terrorists. So what is the United States?

Israel is dropping bombs on a concentration camp full of children. No matter how much you shriek about Hamas or call people names like terrorist supporter or anti-semite, Israel will still be dropping bombs on a concentration camp full of children, and it will still be evil.

The Jews took Israel from the Arabs after the Arabs had lived there for a thousand years. Israel, like South Africa, is an apartheid state.

We must have the same level of accountability and justice for all victims of crimes against humanity. We have seen unthinkable atrocities committed by the U.S., Hamas, Israel, Afghanistan, and the Taliban.

I have said to people when they ask me if this Capitol crumbled to the ground, the one thing that would remain is our commitment to our aid — and I don’t even call it aid — our cooperation with Israel. That’s fundamental to who we are.

I point you to Jared Kushner’s own document, which explicitly states that any reduction in tensions between Saudi Arabia and Iran is a threat to the durability of the Abraham Accords. […] in order for Israel and Saudi Arabia and the UAE to continue to have enough strategic incentives to collaborate and have relations and all jointly forget about Palestinian suffering, there needs to be a threat from Iran.

The monstrous [Israeli] attack on the hospital in the Gaza Strip is certainly a war crime. And the final responsibility for it lies with those who cynically capitalize on wars in different countries and on different continents. Who recklessly hand out huge sums of money for weapons, loading their military-industrial complex. Who falsely broadcast their global mission to protect democratic values. The United States of America.

As the head of a religious party, I am not in favor of civil marriage or the full recognition of non-Orthodox converts in Israel.

What makes this current moment so stark, so unprecedented – so historic, perhaps – is that attitudes towards Israel and the Palestinians are clearly changing within the Democratic party and among liberal Americans in general.

The eyes and ears of America is Israel.

Israel is the most likely regime in the world to take the United States to Armageddon. I could paint you all sorts of ways we can do that and the ways we could get there.