“The story of modern Israel is essentially the story of the return to the ancestral homeland of exiles from persecution, insecurity, and fear in quest of freedom, human dignity, independence, and peace… We are a people who for 2,000 years believed in the impossible. And here we are, a socereign state.”

Prime Minister Golda Meir
Israeli Stateswoman

“I am a Zionist… The coming into being of a Jewish state … is on event in world history to be viewed in the perspective not of a generation or a century, but in the perspective of a thousand, two thousand, or even three thousand years.”

Prime Minister Winston Churchill
British Statesman and Nobel Laureate in Literature

“America and Israel share a special bond. Our relationship is unique among all nations. Like America, Israel is a strong democracy, a symbol of freedom, and an oasis of liberty, a home to the oppressed and persecuted.”

President Bill Clinton

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