The Case for a Larger Israel Quotes

“But what choice does it have? As long as Israel is perceived by its enemies to be vulnerable, many Arabs and radical Muslims will continue to make Israelis kill them... When Israeli soldiers kill Arabs by accident, they mourn—and it causes psychological damage to those soldiers, and to all of Israeli society. The wars the Arab states have instigated are bloody and cruel, and a heavy price is paid by Israel, even when it wins. And win it must, because one loss means the loss of Israel.”
― David Naggar, The Case for a Larger Israel

“The question is: How large does Israel need to be in order to be a viable state? All other questions are not matters of life and death. It is not a prerequisite that Arabs and Muslims love Israel for it to prosper. As for Palestinian Arabs, they can live happy full lives in a Jewish state if they accept that they live in a Jewish state. They can resettle and live happy full lives in any one of a number of states with Arab and Muslim majorities. They can also live happy full lives in a new state that can be created for them from within the other Arab states. The Jews of Israel, on the other hand, have nowhere else to go: It is the only state in which Jews are the majority, and so, Israel must be viable.”
― David Naggar, The Case for a Larger Israel

“What is important here is not to establish the exact size of a future Israel, but rather to refocus the international debate away from how to implement an unworkable two state
solution within the confines of Israel and the territories and toward a debate about the size Israel should be to be a self-sustaining, viable state.”
― David Naggar, The Case for a Larger Israel

“If one called this entire zone Arab-Judeo land, and then split it fairly between its residents—289 million Arabs, and 5.4 million Jews—the Jews would be entitled to a state that is at least 10 times the current size of Israel and the territories. To arrive at this figure one must simply divide the number Jews in Arab-Judeo land by the number of Arabs and Jews combined living in Arab-Judeo (5,400,000 Jews divided by 294,400,000). The result is that Jews total only 1.834% of the people of Arab-Judeo land. But 1.834% x 6,155,939 square miles yields nearly 113,000 square miles, a landmass nearly 14 times the size of pre-1967 Israel, and over 10 times the size of Israel and the territories taken together. Apportioning the land evenly on a per person basis is fair and moral in light of the fact that until the de facto expulsion of Jews in the middle of the last century, there were Jews all over Arab-Judeo land.”
― David Naggar, The Case for a Larger Israel

“Palestinians have learned to use civilians as both swords and shields: they target Israeli civilians, then hide behind Palestinian civilians when the Israeli military comes after them...They deliberately place their bomb-making factories adjacent to schools, hospitals, and other civilian buildings.” “To reward rejection and violence with even-handedness is to encourage such conduct. There must be a high price paid by those who reject peace in favor violence, as the Palestinians have done since the 1920s”
― David Naggar, The Case for a Larger Israel

“Jews are painted by the brush strokes of thousands of years of persecution. Repeatedly reminding the world of the pogroms and the holocaust is both tiresome and has worn thin. But these atrocities are worth remembering. For when Arab fanatics and radical Muslims call for all Muslims to fulfill their duty to kill all Jews wherever they may be found, they are talking about each and every Jew, everywhere, and they are not joking. They are deadly serious.”
― David Naggar, The Case for a Larger Israel

“literally. They suffer little international wrath for their crimes against civilians—civilians oftentimes in their midst to lend a helping hand. Israel does not enjoy the same luxury. Most of the free press in the Middle East operates out of Jerusalem. This makes sense since Israel is the only democracy in the region. Only in Israel can the press freely operate. It is easier and much safer for a journalist to question Israel than to challenge any other entity in the region.”
― David Naggar, The Case for a Larger Israel

“Some don’t accept that in order for Israel to actually survive, terrorists, the agents of those who wish Israel destroyed, must be fought. Fighting terrorists isn’t always so clean. Innocent people get hurt.”
― David Naggar, The Case for a Larger Israel

“True peace and true stability in the Middle East will only come when Israel’s enemies realize that they cannot destroy Israel by any means. For this to happen, Israel must be viable, and to be viable it must be larger. The sooner the international community understands that it must participate in making Israel viable in every respect, the sooner there will be peace.”
― David Naggar, The Case for a Larger Israel

“One could argue that enlarging Israel is fair because Jordan illegally uprooted the Jews from the area that they are now resettling, even though international bodies call foul on
the Jews for doing so. One could argue that enlarging Israel is fair because 850,000 Jews were thrown out of Arab countries in the mid 20" century, in a grand ethnic cleansing enterprise. One could argue that enlarging Israel is fair because Hitler wiped out six out of every seven Jewish Europeans, and that
it is fair that Jews be allowed a decent sized piece of the earth to repopulate. Some would even argue that enlarging Israel is fair because of Israel’s biblical claim. Fairness, however, is not widely seen as a benefit to the world.”
― David Naggar, The Case for a Larger Israel

“Strategic and tactical military size would matter less if Arab states were peaceful and democratic, with individual rights, freedom of worship, freedom of the press and constitutional limits on governmental power. Presumably as democracies with true freedoms, they would be more inclined toward peaceful coexistence. But the tolerance found in true democracy appears to be a long way off in these Arab states.”
― David Naggar, The Case for a Larger Israel

“It bears repeating that there are twenty-one Arab League member states and fifty-seven member states of the Organization of the Islamic Conference. There is one tiny Jewish state.”
― David Naggar, The Case for a Larger Israel

“The notion that all problems in the Middle East flow from Palestinian oppression, that Palestinian oppression flows from Israel’s occupation of “Palestinian lands,” and that if the occupation were ended, all problems in the Middle East would end, is false.”
― David Naggar, The Case for a Larger Israel

“Israel must not be larger just to be larger. It must be larger to be economically self-sustaining. It must be larger so that it is strong enough to win political allies. It must be larger so that it will be in a better position to do more good for more people throughout the world.”
― David Naggar, The Case for a Larger Israel

“This man at the pinnacle of Islam had this to say about 9/11.
“Our enemies weave many lies about us, which we are not necessarily aware of. For example: One day, we awoke to the crime of 9/11, which hit the tallest buildings in New York, the Empire State Building (sic). There is no doubt that not a single Arab or Muslim had anything to do with these events. The incident was fabricated as a pretext to attack Islam and Muslims... - and Allah knows that the Arabs and Muslims are innocent of it – in order to serve as a pretext to attack Islam and the Muslims... I believe a dirty Zionist hand carried out this act. Zionism has taken the opportunity to escalate the war in Palestine, killing hundreds of thousands so far, while we watch from the sidelines in astonishment and ask: What's going on?'?”
― David Naggar, The Case for a Larger Israel

“Why does one society sing for peace, while another sings to glorify hate and killing? This cannot be the road to peace.”
― David Naggar, The Case for a Larger Israel

“Theoretically, if each state accepted the universal protection of human rights, individuals and groups could survive and flourish under any regime and in any condition. This would suit the leading powers in the West who have the most vested in protecting the international “world order” status quo. But there is no agreement on which human rights are the essential rights, and states by the very way in which they are supposed to operate resist external intrusions into what they deem to be their internal affairs. On the other hand, when it is self-serving, all states are quick to take up the cause of the human rights of another state’s citizens. Thus, there is a natural tension between the ideas of non-interference with the internal workings of another state, and human rights. Besides internal pressures from disaffected groups,”
― David Naggar, The Case for a Larger Israel

“Today, the Internal Atomic Energy Agency has all but confirmed that Iran is seeking nuclear weapons, notwithstanding Iran’s protests to the contrary. But it is difficult to stop Iran because Iran has the economic clout to destabilize world economies by turning off oil exports. Its threat to do so has stopped the world from meaningful action. Only if Iran overplays its hand, will the fear of possible global economic pain from the ensuing instability, force the international community to meaningfully act.”
― David Naggar, The Case for a Larger Israel

“Take Jordan—arguably the friendliest government to Israel in the region. Jordan provides that citizenship is open to any person who is not Jewish.’ Jews once lived in the area that became Jordan, but they are not allowed to live there now-—and this on land that the international community had once set aside to form a Jewish state. Ever wonder why there is never a call to divest assets from Jordan? It is not in the political interest of the leaders of great economies to upset the Arabs.”
― David Naggar, The Case for a Larger Israel

“If Israel defends itself too fully from people who joyfully wish it harm—people who behead others as a negotiating tactic—the world will choke Israel economically. If they don’t defend vigorously enough, more of its citizens get killed. The world has imposed the Vietnam standard on Israel: it isn’t currently allowed to end local terrorism by winning! And so, there will be a next war”
― David Naggar, The Case for a Larger Israel

“With the exception of the United States—from time to time—and perhaps one or two other small countries, it seems that every nation on earth, plays international politics strictly as a game of real politic. And this they do at everyone else’s expense. The question they ask is not, “Is it right?” The question they ask is, “Is it good for my country economically and politically?”
Today it is never in any other country’s perceived self-interest to take Israel’s side when the competing interests are a block of 21 states that run from the western tip of Africa to the middle of Asia, and the full 57 member states of the Organization of the Islamic Conference.”
― David Naggar, The Case for a Larger Israel

“Israel is often accused of applying a “disproportionate use of force” against people who publicly call for its annihilation. What could be disproportionate when faced against such an enemy? There is no middle ground. There is no room for negotiation. Such an enemy must be destroyed before it destroys. A more reasonable question is this: Why isn’t it considered a “disproportionate use of force” by so many in the international community when terrorists bomb teenagers eating in pizza parlors?”
― David Naggar, The Case for a Larger Israel

“Self-interested parties often revise, manipulate, and even trample the truth to maximize public support and minimize public opposition for their particular geopolitical aim.”
― David Naggar, The Case for a Larger Israel

“Abba Eban, Israel's first ambassador to the United Nations.
He said, “Nobody does Israel any service by proclaiming its ‘right to exist.’ Israel's legitimacy is not suspended in midair awaiting acknowledgment... There is certainly no other state, big or small, young or old, that would consider mere recognition of its ‘right to exist’ a favor, or a negotiable concession.”
― David Naggar, The Case for a Larger Israel

“The problem is not 1967. The problem is the profound nonrecognition by the Arab world of Israel’s birthright.”
― David Naggar, The Case for a Larger Israel

“If one views the problem as a dispute between Israel and only the Arabs living in and around Israel, one may incorrectly conclude that the stateless Palestinians just wish Israel harm because they are being oppressed. These Arabs will be viewed as victims of the military stronger Israelis. But if one uses a wider scope, the global context of the conflict become crystal clear. The overwhelming majority of Arabs, Sunni and Shi’a alike, in twenty-one separate Arab states and in the West Bank and Gaza, together with Muslims in Iran and beyond, wish to eliminate Israel – albeit some in an extended time frame. Through this lens, the tiny Jewish state, which must fend off political, military and economic onslaught, is fairly views as the aggrieved party.”
― David Naggar, The Case for a Larger Israel

“The first predicament Israel faces is that the majority of Palestinians wish to push it into the sea, and hundreds of millions of Arabs and Muslims worldwide wish Israel the same deadly fate. To put it plainly, minimizing the size of a Jewish homeland is unlikely to end the large conflict, even if local Palestinians were appeased by this action.”
― David Naggar, The Case for a Larger Israel

“Ultimately, if the Israeli-Palestinian problem cannot be solved without risking Israel’s demise, then the problem, as viewed with conventional wisdom, and taking into account current international constraints, cannot be successfully solved.”
― David Naggar, The Case for a Larger Israel

“To Hamas, duly elected by the Palestinians – yet subverted by Fatah – nothing short of the destruction of Israel is an acceptable final outcome to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. It’s in their charter. They do not hide it. They proclaim it with full candor: “Israel with exist and will continue to exist until Islam will obliterate it, just as it obliterated all others before it.”
― David Naggar, The Case for a Larger Israel