All Quotes

Israel no longer has allies in Egypt and in Tunisia, we are saying to the Zionist enemies that times have changed and that the time of the Arab Spring, the time of the revolution, of dignity and of pride has arrived.
‐‐ Ismail Haniyeh

Israel now has a reputation around the world of being not just a place to develop products and technology but to develop ideas.
‐‐ Naftali Bennett

Israel of the coastal plain, where eight out of ten Israeli Jews live far removed from the occupied territories, from the fiery Jerusalem, from the religious and nationalistic conflicts, is unknown to the outside world, almost unknown to itself.
‐‐ Amos Oz

Israel produces more conceptual products than any other country.
‐‐ Benjamin Netanyahu

Israel ranks her priorities in the following way: security, land, and water.
‐‐ Bashar al-Assad

Israel remains a foreign body in this large area, and it always proved that it is unable to coexist with this environment, because the, the scope of the massacres that it has committed does not permit it to coexist.
‐‐ Hassan Nasrallah

Israel reoccupied the cities of the West Bank by a unilateral action, and reestablished the civil and military occupation by a unilateral action, and it is the one that determines whether or not a Palestinian citizen has the right to reside in any part of the Palestinian Territory.
‐‐ Mahmoud Abbas

Israel's a small country but both the audience and programme-makers are very sophisticated.
‐‐ Gideon Raff

Israel's behavior when it comes to Egypt is that of a battered wife. Nothing but apologies.
‐‐ Avigdor Lieberman

Israel's capital will never again be a divided city, a city with a wall at its center, a city in which two flags fly. This city, will, in its entirety, absorb immigrants, welcome pilgrims and be the eternal capital of Israel forever.
‐‐ Yitzhak Shamir

Israel's creation was politically amazing and caused by a number of unusual events. And I understand. For centuries, Jews endured horrible suffering, and like other people, deserve the right to self-determination, but the way Israel is going now frightens me. Jews make awkward colonial overlords.
‐‐ Harvey Pekar

Israel's days without Jerusalem, Judea and Samaria and the Gaza Strip are gone and will not return.
‐‐ Yitzhak Shamir

Israel's doors are open to collaboration with Bulgaria.
‐‐ Shimon Peres

Israel's flexibility is dependent on its sense of security.
‐‐ Elliott Abrams

Israel's foreign policy has three points: the relationship with the U.S., the relationship with the U.S., and the relationship with the U.S.
‐‐ Reuven Rivlin

Israel's master strategy needs to be moving toward a regional arrangement that will enable a full normalization of relations with the Arab states and the establishment of a demilitarized Palestinian state alongside the State of Israel.
‐‐ Yair Lapid

Israel's middle class is paying for those below it, and that's fine, but also for those who are above it, and that's very wrong.
‐‐ Yair Lapid

Israel's pro-American orientation exists not just among Israeli elites but also among the whole population. Come what may in Israel, it's inconceivable that this fundamental orientation will change. Combined with its overwhelming military power, this makes Israel a unique and irreplaceable American asset in the Middle East.
‐‐ Norman Finkelstein

Israel's relations with the United States are a cornerstone, and without them, we cannot make our way in the current global climate.
‐‐ Avigdor Lieberman

Israel's secret services are allowed to profile.
‐‐ Ehud Barak

Israel's security doctrine is not that Israel must invade every place from which a threat to Israel emanates.
‐‐ Tzipi Livni

Israel's security policy is determined by our needs. I strongly reject all the unfounded publicity suggesting that Israel is prevented from taking action because of international pressure.
‐‐ Ariel Sharon

Israel sees the world just beyond its borders collapsing.
‐‐ Richard Engel

Israel should not feel satisfaction at my son's death, for he died on the battlefield, facing the conquerors as he wished, with a gun in his hand.
‐‐ Hassan Nasrallah

Israel specifically does not want Syria to hand over weapons, chemical or conventional, to Hezbollah.
‐‐ Richard Engel

Israel stands proudly at the forefront of international achievement. The world's leading corporations - Google, Intel and Motorola, to name but a few - maintain research and development facilities here, and our technology start-ups continue to be acquired by the likes of AOL, eBay and IBM.
‐‐ Ehud Olmert

Israel was born under the British mandate. We learned from the British what democracy means, and how it behaves in a time of danger, war and terror. We thank Britain for introducing freedom and respect of human rights both in normal and demanding circumstances.
‐‐ Shimon Peres

Israel was established as a homeland for the Jewish people and embraced all the Jews who had to leave Arab states. This should be also the true meaning of the future Palestinian state. It should be the answer for the Palestinians wherever they are - those who live in the territories, and those who are being kept as political cards in refugee camps.
‐‐ Tzipi Livni

Israel was not created in order to disappear - Israel will endure and flourish. It is the child of hope and the home of the brave. It can neither be broken by adversity nor demoralized by success. It carries the shield of democracy and it honors the sword of freedom.
‐‐ John F. Kennedy

Israel was seen as having demonstrated unmistakably it wanted peace, and the reason it wasn't available, achievable was because Arafat wouldn't accept it.
‐‐ Dennis Ross

Israel welcomes the wind of change, and sees a window of opportunity. Democratic and science-based economies by nature desire peace. Israel does not want to be an island of affluence in an ocean of poverty. Improvements in our neighbours' lives mean improvements to the neighbourhood in which we live.
‐‐ Shimon Peres

Israel will continue to act proactively to prevent the transfer of heavy missiles or advanced air defense systems from Syria to Hezbollah in southern Lebanon, which, of course, carries the risk of a military showdown.
‐‐ Ehud Barak

Israel will not and should not leave until it is clear that the West Bank can be policed by Palestinians and that the region will not be a source of terrorism against Israel, as Gaza and South Lebanon became when Israel left there.
‐‐ Elliott Abrams

Israel will not divide its land. We're already too small.
‐‐ Naftali Bennett

Israel will not tolerate a situation in which Iran has effective control of non-conventional weapons that can be used directly against the state of Israel.
‐‐ Ehud Olmert

Israel will not tolerate Iran developing nuclear power, even if Iran claims it is for peaceful purposes. If there is an attack, oil prices will go through the roof.
‐‐ Robert Kiyosaki

Israel won't be secure so long as Hamas is in power, and therefore, we need to come to a decision that we will break the will of Hamas to keep fighting.
‐‐ Avigdor Lieberman

Israel would not do that, both because we cannot afford to be accused by the world of aggression and because we cannot, for security and social reasons, absorb in our midst a substantial Arab population.
‐‐ Moshe Sharett

Israeli Arabs don't have to go. But if they stay, they have to take an oath of allegiance to Israel as a Jewish Zionist state.
‐‐ Avigdor Lieberman

Israeli Arabs have more political rights than any other Arabs in the Middle East, including their compatriots in the Palestinian Authority.
‐‐ Jack Schwartz

Israeli citizens deserve full-time ministers.
‐‐ Yair Lapid

Israeli governments cling to the two-state notion because it seems to reflect the sentiments of the Jewish Israeli majority, and it shields the country from international opprobrium even as it camouflages relentless efforts to expand Israel's territory into the West Bank.
‐‐ Ian Lustick

Israeli interests are not necessarily in harmony with the American interests.
‐‐ Bashar al-Assad

Israeli society is comprised of four principal tribes growing closer in size.
‐‐ Reuven Rivlin

Israeli suffering has to be understood.
‐‐ Mauricio Macri

Israelis and Palestinians are suspicious of each other and of promises from outside. But the need for a negotiated solution between the parties should not stymie international clarity and consensus about the endgame in terms of borders and other issues.
‐‐ David Miliband

Israelis are displaying buds of xenophobia.
‐‐ Eli Yishai

Israelis can be proud of the vibrant democracy that they have created, and I know that many Rhode Islanders share my deep appreciation for the close friendship between our two nations.
‐‐ Lincoln Chafee

Israelis want peace and security, and Palestinians want peace and justice - these are two very different things, and this is the real gap we have to close.
‐‐ Yair Lapid