Yair Lapid Quotes

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Yair Lapid

Profession : Politician

Birth : November 5, 1963

Facts cannot be replaced by opinion.

Yair Lapid

The settlers do not have a problem with the leftists but, rather, with Israelis who like settlers: Israelis who are unconcerned by the fact that national-religious youngsters are overtaking our elite units. Such Israelis actually appreciate the settlers for that.

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Intellectuals know how to answer the question, 'What God do I believe in?' not only through the question of 'What God do I abhor?' Intellectuals can also answer the question of 'What flag do I wave?' without having to answer the question of 'What flag do I burn.'

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Intellectuals are people who manage the world in their head. They look at life and try to see some kind of truth, and if they cannot find it, they attempt to create it.

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If, for 2,000 years, you dress up differently, believe in a different God, celebrate different holidays, and on top of it insist on telling everyone that you're completely different than them, ultimately they'll believe you.

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The democratic system is premised on trust in the masses' wisdom. We believe that the collective is wiser than its parts and that, at the end of the day, it shall make the right choices and take the right decisions.

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Even in an enlightened democracy, the media have to check themselves to make sure they are not contributing to an unnecessary mass hysteria.

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The Israeli media are very important to me. I've been part of them and they a part of me all my adult life.

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There is a clear interest within ISIS to drag Israel into a war with them. If they do so, they will be able to paint Israel as having an alliance with the states fighting against them.

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One of the greatest fears of the Arab world is a direct conflict between Israel and the Islamic State.

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Instead of personal security, citizens are afraid to walk down the street in Jerusalem.

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Netanyahu needs to stand before the Israeli public and say, 'I failed.'

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The Israeli public's willingness to enlist, the warm embrace for the soldiers and the residents of the south, and the desire to contribute and to give at any given moment really warm the heart, and it gives all of us strength.

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If you want to do stuff, you have to be able to handle controversy.

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Politics - when it's not cynical, it can be a creation.

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Israel was founded as a refuge for the Jewish people, but today it isn't a safe place. It is safer to be Jew in New York.

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I want to live in a country that is not just a place but also an idea, and Jerusalem is the heart of the idea. There may be practical considerations, but a country cannot exist without an ethos, and Jerusalem is an ethos.

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I like Tel Aviv; I live in Tel Aviv, but our right of return is Jerusalem. We did not return after 2,000 years for Tel Aviv but for Jerusalem.

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I don't feel we need a declaration from the Palestinians that they recognize Israel as a Jewish state.

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Judaism shouldn't be the jailhouse of ideas but a liberator of ideas; not a disintegrator of people but what brings people together.

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