December 31, 1999 speech on Qods Day, as quoted in "Iranian leader urges destruction of Israel", The Spokesman-Review (January 1, 2000)
1990s
“Israel Is A Hideous Entity In the Middle East Which Will Undoubtedly Be Annihilated.”
Ali Khamenei (1939) Iranian Shiite faqih, Marja' and official independent islamic leader
September 2, 2010 tweet https://twitter.com/khamenei_ir/status/22815824658 <br class="br">2010
“Marriage is like the Middle East, isn't it? There's no solution.”
Willy Russell Shirley Valentine
Shirley, page 14.
Shirley Valentine (1986)
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (1956) 6th President of the Islamic Republic of Iran
Paragraph 20
2006, Letter to George W. Bush, 2006
Andrei Sakharov (1921–1989) Soviet nuclear physicist and human rights activist
and with Britain in 1948 and 1956
Progress, Coexistence and Intellectual Freedom (1968), Dangers, Vietnam and the Middle East
David Ben-Gurion (1886–1973) Israeli politician, Zionist leader, prime minister of Israel
Israel's Proclamation of Independence, read on (14 May 1948)
Context: We extend the hand of peace and good-neighborliness to all the States around us and to their people, and we call upon them to cooperate in mutual helpfulness with the independent Jewish nation in its Land. The State of Israel is prepared to make its contribution in a concerted effort for the advancement of the entire Middle East.
Hosni Mubarak (1928) 4th president of Egypt
Address at a press conference, as quoted in "Mubarak : Arabs to fight 'scourge of terrorism'" at CNN (3 June 2003)
V. T. Rajshekar (1932) Indian conspiracy theorist
Brahminism. (2015) Gyan Publishing House, Annexure I
Barack Obama (1961) 44th President of the United States of America
Chicago Daily Herald (18 October 2004) http://www.democrats.org/page/speakout/unfit <br class="br">2004
P. W. Botha (1916–2006) South African prime minister
As Minister of Defence, speaking in Pretoria on 1 April 1968, Die Burger, http://www.sahistory.org.za/archive/extract-speech-made-heilbron-16-august-1968 2 April 1968
Dan Quayle (1947) American politician, lawyer
All three of the above are from "Future Quayle Quotes We Can Expect to Hear" by Al Jaffee, in MAD magazine, (October 1991), pp. 10–11
Cited in [John Kerry or George W. Bush Misquotes, http://www.snopes.com/quotes/candidate.asp, snopes.com, 2008-12-31, 2004-09-22, Barbara Mikkelson]
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