I am not one of those who believes—as Obama is said to believe—that a solution to the Palestinian statehood question would bring an end to Muslim resentment against the United States. (Incidentally, if he really...

Pessimism is rife in Israel.

If an election in Israel will take place some time around March or April, we cannot expect to see a real revolution in the political dialogue between us and the Palestinians. It will have to...

If I wasn’t going to live in Israel, I had to live in New York.

[The United States and Israel] are cheeky humans, and they think that the entire world should obey them, … They destroy Palestinian families and expect nobody to object to them.

Israel will not be able to accept an Iranian nuclear capability and it must have the capability to defend itself, with all that that implies, and this we are preparing.

Israel is presenting 3,000 reasons why it is undermining the peace process, … This will destroy the possibility of a Palestinian state and the two-state solution.

It should be known that Israel is based on treachery.

There’s no one in Israel who appreciates more than me the importance of American support for Israel.

Israel has been willing to work with the Jordanian-Egyptian initiative to bring the current round of Palestinian violence against Israeli civilians to an end. Unfortunately, this morning we have seen the response from the Palestinian...

Israel bombed the Syrian nuclear reactor in 2007. What the Syrians did in response, nothing. Israel has killed a number of terrorist leaders in Syria. Response? Nothing.

The terrorist issue is everybody’s worst nightmare, … It’s a major negative. Israel is a major nightmare, as is the Middle East, because it’s a time bomb. But they always seem to be able to...

We believe peace is possible now and we are ready to negotiate with Israel to reach a true and lasting peace based on justice and international legitimacy,

Yes, if we have peace with God first.

…the Palestinian Arabs’ obsession with the Jews and rejection of all political compromise was inspired by Islamic teachings as well as by European fascism.

The linguistic and literary reality of the biblical tradition is folkloristic in essence. The concept of a benei Israel … is a reflection of no sociopolitical entity of the historical state of Israel of the...

Israel will have to define, by itself, its final borders, and that will involve the consolidation of smaller settlements into settlement blocs.

the president condemns in the strongest terms today’s attack on innocent in Israel.

In the time that we’re here today, more women and children will die violently in the Darfur region than in Iraq, Afghanistan, Palestine, Israel or Lebanon. So, after September 30, you won’t need the UN...

It’s clear Israel has suspended the peace process, despite the so-called moderation of the Arab world, because it has no interest in peace.

In America access is always about architecture and never about human beings. Among Israelis and Palestinians, access was rarely about anything but people. While in the U.S. a wheelchair stands out as an explicitly separate...

We discussed the serious security situation between us and Israel,

Hamas is regularly described as ‘Iranian-backed Hamas, which is dedicated to the destruction of Israel.’ One will be hard put to find something like ‘democratically elected Hamas, which has long been calling for a two-state...

Well, I myself am a 100% atheist. And I am increasingly worried that the Israeli-Palestinian struggle, which dominates our entire life, is assuming a more and more religious character.

Religion is the most powerful entity on earth. A phenomenon that has conscripted millions to give or sacrifice their lives without so much as a minuscule query about their chosen beliefs or particular ideology. And...

I was taken to a villa to meet Sabri al-Banna, known as ‘Abu Nidal’ (‘father of struggle’), who was at the time emerging as one of Yasser Arafat’s main enemies. The meeting began inauspiciously when...

We can never totally return to the indefensible pre-1967 borders, … We simply cannot afford to make Israel [9 miles] wide again at its center. We can’t allow the Palestinians to be a couple [miles]...

We are trying to do our best to find a resolution to the problem in the Middle East between Israel and the Palestinians, … We are making some consultations where we could help the two...

Israel is keeping Palestinians trapped in a revolving door of reoccupation,

For Israel should not be condemned, in the name of stability, to live in a region where despots threaten to ‘wipe them off the map,’

Well, I grew up between Holland and Israel and then moved to France when I was eleven.

It’s always convenient for certain people to heap accusations on Israel.

The Israeli lobby has clout in the U.S., which means that re-arranging the region and controlling its resources one way or another, will serve Israel through its control over the American administration.

The State of Israel can be proud of what we’re doing.

The closest thing to Kfar Darom in the United States is the Alamo. Imagine pulling people out of this place. They are heroes of Israel and we owe them a great deal after they are...

The president of Iran, with all of his statements, is a heinous anti-Semitic phenomenon. He is an Israel-hater. We must prevent Iran from reaching a technological know-how with everything that entails, and the international community...

satisfied with the clear statement that Israel takes into account our security concerns both for U.S. security and the security in the region.

It is incumbent upon Israel to turn this unilateral withdrawal into a positive step,

The will is there in Syria. The will is there in Israel. In the United States, your president is in a unique position. They all have faith in this man to bring them together. I’ve...

…British appeasement of the Palestinian Arabs led directly to the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Jews [in the Holocaust] who might otherwise have found refuge in Palestine.

It is time to put an end to conspiracy theories against Israel,

If there is need, Tel Aviv, Jerusalem and everywhere in Israel can become our target. Israelis must also know that we have already transferred the knowledge and the technology of producing rockets to the West...

Fifty-seven countries in the world, a third of the United Nations, do not recognize Israel. In a way, I think North Korea has better international relations than Israel.

Israel deserves to live in peace in the Middle East and the Jewish people deserve the respect of their neighbors. We have been very clear that incitement cannot be ignored.

Dennis Ross has to be very careful if he wants to adopt the Israel priorities and the Israel discourse, and really fall prey to this deliberate campaign of fabrications of false accusations that Israel has...

I have no interest in Israeli citizenship… Israel does not want me, nor do I want Israel.

For the Arabs in Israel there is always a tension between nationality and identity.

The new crimes that the US and Israel were committing in Gaza as 2009 opened do not fit easily into any standard category—except for the category of familiarity.

Israeli occupation exposes us very young to the extremes of our emotions, until we cannot feel except in the extreme.

I like his optimism,’ I said. ‘I like the way when he and some other rabbis saw a jackal in the ruins of Jerusalem, and the others began to cry, he laughed and said that...