“The Bible is the most precious possession of the Jewish people. It is our mandate for our land.”— Levi Eshkol
“For in Palestine we do not propose even to go through the form of consulting the wishes of the present inhabitants of the country.”— Arthur Balfour
“His Majesty's Government view with favour the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people, and will use their best endeavours to facilitate the achievement of this object...”— Arthur Balfour
“Zionism is a return to the Jewish fold even before it is a return to the Jewish land.”— Theodor Herzl
“The Jewish question is a national question, which can only be solved by making it a political world-question.”— Theodor Herzl
“We have come back to the land of our forefathers to build it and be rebuilt by it.”— Yitzhak Navon
“Anybody who is familiar with history knows that the Zionist regime is a racist regime.”— Mahmoud Ahmadinejad