One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present.

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We can forgive [the Arabs] for killing our children. We cannot forgive them for forcing us to kill their children. We will only have peace with [the Arabs] when they love their children more than they hate us...

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There will be peace in the Middle East only when the Arabs love their children more than they hate Israel.

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If we have to have a choice between being dead and pitied, and being alive with a bad image, we'd rather be alive and have the bad image.

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There is no such thing as a Palestinian people... It is not as if we came and threw them out and took their country. They didn't exist.

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Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.

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The world hates a Jew who hits back. The world loves us only when we are to be pitied.

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Those that perished in Hitler's gas chambers were the last Jews to die without standing up to defend themselves.

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We can forgive you for killing our children, but we can never forgive you for making us kill your children.

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We Jews have a secret weapon in our struggle with the Arabs; we have no place to go.

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