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It is because I recognize the brutality with which my own multi-branched ancestors have been treated that I can identify the despicable, lawless, cruel, and sadistic behavior that has characterized Israel's attempts to erase a people, the Palestinians, from their own land.

— Alice Walker

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

Why does Israel always have to suffer for others to feel bad for it?

— Zubin Mehta

Viewing Israelis and Palestinians from a psychological perspective, they would both be seen as victims of abuse; that is how they both understandably feel, and it's how they both understandably behave. The Jewish psyche is in victimized reaction to the Holocaust, and the Palestinian psyche is in victimized reaction to the Israelis.

— Marianne Williamson

Being an Israeli is to know that you have risen from the ashes of those who were killed and knowing you have a responsibility for the coming generations.

— Tzipi Livni

I've always been interested in justice. I think what is happening to the Palestinians represents the ultimate injustice. I also hate bullies and the effect of them, the way people side with them out of fear. The Israelis are the schoolyard bullies, with England and the United States siding with them.

— Bella Freud

To come and say about me that I'm destroying Israel, that I hate Israel, that's a bit insulting.

— Reuven Rivlin

I know the dangers and the seductions of the Middle East. It is part of my identity. I grew up among a people who routinely referred to the creation of the State of Israel as the Nakba - the catastrophe. And yet I fell in love with and married a Jewish American woman, the only daughter of two Holocaust survivors, both Jewish Austrians.

— Kai Bird

I'm not a single-issue person, but I spend so much time on Israel because it is so unfairly condemned around the world.

— Alan Dershowitz

The Israelis have suffered a great deal, we must condemn suicide bombers, and we must never say that the plight of the Palestinians justifies this terrible thing.

— George Carey

✗Opposing Perspectives

From the day I started to think politically and to develop my own moral values, from my earliest youth, I have been an ardent defender of Israel.

— Steven Spielberg

As an observer, I react to the realities of Israeli life with both envy and relief. Nobody wants to live under the threat of constant attack from enemies right next door, under ceaseless and often unfair international scrutiny, defending his homeland by day and living with the memories of mass genocide at night.

— Pete Hegseth