Jerusalem Quotes

On filming Free Zone in Jerusalem: "I was sleeping five hours a night and we were running from location to location and making up the story as we went along. There`s a scene where my arms are uncovered and I`m very close to the guy. People got upset and we moved to another place. It was just crazy because they were calling us Nazis, and I think that`s a little much."

It was about this school teacher who went to Jerusalem and started bleeding from the palms. It just didn`t make an awful lot of sense to me.

Perhaps areas of Israel where current large Palestinian populations and demographic realities exist could be exchanged for Israeli expansion into the West Bank to include most of East Jerusalem.

We plan to eliminate the state of Israel and establish a purely Palestinian state. We will make life unbearable for Jews by psychological warfare and population explosion. We Palestinians will take over everything, including all of Jerusalem.

The Palestinian Rifle is ready and we will aim it if they try to prevent us from praying in Jerusalem.

The victory march will continue until the Palestinian flag flies in Jerusalem and in all of Palestine.

I am 73 years old. I was born in Jerusalem. I`m the first prime minister of Israel to be born here. I am the only former general to become a prime minister.

Jerusalem is united, will never be divided again.

Like the builders of the second Jerusalem temple, we were compelled to build with one hand and to bear the sword, as it were, in the other.

Israel of the coastal plain, where eight out of ten Israeli Jews live far removed from the occupied territories, from the fiery Jerusalem, from the religious and nationalistic conflicts, is unknown to the outside world, almost unknown to itself.

First of all, Arafat is wrong. Jerusalem is Israel`s capital, will never be divided, and will remain the capital of the State of Israel, the capital of the Jewish people, for ever and ever.

If they had connived a scheme, and Christ had not been raised from the dead, where would have been the hardest place on the face of the earth to convince anyone? In Jerusalem.

What has Athens to do with Jerusalem?

We can never, never abandon Jerusalem because the dignity of Jerusalem is the same as the dignity of a Muslim,

We plan to eliminate the state of Israel and establish a purely Palestinian state. We will make life unbearable for Jews by psychological warfare and population explosion. . . . We Palestinians will take over everything, including all of Jerusalem.

Jerusalem is a festival and a lamentation. Its song is a sigh across the ages, a delicate, robust, mournful psalm at the great junction of spiritual cultures.