Views
Northern Israel
"Opportunity is here now, clear and shining for both our [peoples]. To reject it or ignore it or fritter it away will bring us all the long reproaches of the aftertime." ~Winston Churchill
Temple in Jerusalem
The Golan Heights
Children's Memorial at Yad VaShem
"Let, then, the world see that she can bear prosperity: and that her honest virtue in time of peace, is equal to the bravest virtue in time of war." ~Thomas Paine
"The catastrophe which recently befell the Jewish people - the massacre of millions of Jews in Europe - was another clear demonstration of the urgency of solving the problem of its homelessness by re-establishing in Eretz-Israel the Jewish State, which would open the gates of the homeland wide to every Jew and confer upon the Jewish people the status of a fully priviledged member of the community of nations." ~The Declaration of the Establishment of the State of Israel
"To give security to these countless homes, they must be sheilded from the two giant marauders, war and tyranny." ~Winston Churchill
The Western Wall, Jerusalem
Close-up of the Western Wall, Jerusalem
"Palestine is the homeland of the Arab Palestinian people; it is an indivisible part of the Arab homeland, and the Palestinian people are an integral part of the Arab nation." ~The Palestinian National Charter
"This right is the natural right of the Jewish people to be masters of their own fate, like all other nations, in their own soverign State." ~The Declaration of the Establishment of the State of Israel
The Negev Desert
"Revenge is an act which you want to commit when you are powerless and because you are powerless: as soon as the sense of impotence is removed, the desire evaporates also... Unfortunately, there is often a need of some concrete incident before one can discover the real state of one's feelings." ~George Orwell