Israel
See also: List of Israeli assassinationsThe Mossad has been suspect for a series of extrajudicial assassination sometimes committed abroad with alleged complicity of other government officials. The organisation has recently been blamed for the killing of Mahmoud al-Mabhouh, 49, a Hamas commander, in Dubai.
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Famous quotes containing the word israel:
“There is Israel, for us at least. What no other generation had, we have. We have Israel in spite of all the dangers, the threats and the wars, we have Israel. We can go to Jerusalem. Generations and generations could not and we can.”
—Elie Wiesel (b. 1928)
“For in the division of the nations of the whole earth he set a ruler over every people; but Israel is the Lords portion: whom, being his firstborn, he nourisheth with discipline, and giving him the light of his love doth not forsake him. Therefore all their works are as the sun before him, and his eyes are continually upon their ways.”
—Apocrypha. Ecclesiasticus 17:17-9.
“Never since has there arisen a prophet in Israel like Moses, whom the LORD knew face to face.”
—Bible: Hebrew, Deuteronomy 34:10.