David Littman Quotes

The only hope for the Middle East is for moderates to win.

In America, we're trying to find a peaceful solution in the Middle East and we're not going to be divided along any lines, including religious lines, including ethnic backgrounds.

It’s a fact that minds are poisoned throughout the Middle East.

The first thing we learned growing up was to hate Jews. I’ll never forgot the first song I learned in school, ‘Arabs our beloved and Jews our dogs.’ I used to wonder at that time who the Jews were, but repeated the words with the rest of the kids without any knowledge of the meaning.

The problem of Islam as a political force is an essential one for our time and for the years to come, and we cannot approach it with a modicum of intelligence if we start out from a position of hatred.

Israel will never surrender to hatred.

It should be a known fact that the Arabs never had a problem with anti-Semitism, but we need to state that over and over again.

if you learn to hate one or two persons... you'll soon hate millions of people.

I don't think we should do anything that should make the people hate the American people more.

The only way we can challenge Islamism is to engage with one another. We need to make it as abhorrent as racism has become today. Only then will we stem the tide of angry young Muslims who turn to hate.

War is not the answer, because only love can conquer hate.

Terrorists have failed to trigger mass conflict between Muslims and non-Muslims in Europe. We should draw strength from that fact.

We are not at war against Islam.

Investment in education and economic prosperity is the best way to cure fanaticism and for establishing a just peace in the Middle East.

The way to tackle Muslimphobia is to tackle prejudice against Muslims. What it is not is to pretend that Islamist extremism does not exist.

I am not a lover of Israel, of course. I have no reason to be. But I don't hate Jews.

Al-Qa'ida seeks to portray America as an enemy of the world's Muslims. But President Obama has made it clear that the United States is not, and never will be, at war with Islam.

In this part of the world, Jews and Arabs will live together forever.

We are proud to say we are racist and hate to see Whites fighting each other. I oppose the Wars.

Sometimes people who know our societies hate us worse that those who don’t… People who are our intellectual and educational equals feel humiliation even more so that the … peasant who is used to being downtrodden….

Pave the Arab roads with the skulls of the Jews.

I am familiar with what goes on in the Arab countries, and I'm sad to say that most of us want to annihilate Israel. We want to kill all the Israelis... Do you know what they used to say in the mosques in Egypt? "We want to go to the White House and turn it into the Islamic House..." We call upon the Arab countries to stop teaching hatred to the Arab children.

I am keen and anxious for the safety of both the Jews and the Palestinians.

Offending someone's religious sensibilities can never justify a violent response. There are no 'but' qualifiers, and the sooner that this lesson is internalized, the rosier our future will be.

There are roughly 22,000 Palestinians working side by side with what you call settlers in factories and malls in the West Bank. If you work together, you start understanding each other.