“As a Palestinian today I speak of a Palestinian and Arab demand for a state on 1967 borders. It is true that in reality there will be an entity or a state called Israel on the rest of Palestinian land. This is reality but I don’t deal with it from the point of view of recognizing or admitting it.” StatesRealityTodaySpeakTermDealsLandDemandIsraelBordersPalestinianEntityAdmitting Author:Khaled Mashal
“The history of warfare has not yet enabled any army, any civilized army, the army of a democracy like Israel, to be able to deal with a ruthless terrorist enemy that uses civilians as a human shield without having some incidental civilian casualties.” HumansUseAbleDealsEnemyDemocracyArmyIsraelTerroristCivilizedWarfareCiviliansShieldsRuthlessCasualtiesCivilian Casualties Author:Benjamin Netanyahu
“I think there are hard-liners inside of Iran that think it is the right thing to do to oppose us, to seek to destroy Israel, to cause havoc in places like Syria or Yemen or Lebanon, if they don't change at all, we're still better off having the deal.” IfsThinkingStillsHardCausesChangeDealsIsraelThings To DoRight ThingIranSyriaBetter OffDon't ChangeLebanonHavocYemen Author:Barack Obama
“The notion that we would condition Iran not getting nuclear weapons in a verifiable deal on Iran recognizing Israel is really akin to saying that we won't sign a deal unless the nature of the Iranian regime completely transforms. And that is, I think, a fundamental misjudgment.” ThinkingNatureDealsConditionsWeaponsFundamentalsNotionIsraelNuclearIranRegimesNuclear WeaponsRecognizingIranian Author:Barack Obama
“Gaza is such a tremendous humanitarian problem, it's way beyond Israel's capability to do anything significant about. It's a world problem, but the world doesn't want to do anything about it. That the world has packed them like sardines in a tiny piece of territory run by a fanatic Islamic group, run by a fanatic group like Hamas. Unless the world decides it wants to tackle this problem, that they want to deal with refugees there, prepare to absorb some of the refugees.” WorldWayWantProblemRunningDealsPiecesGroupsIsraelHumanitarianTinySignificantIslamicTerritoryCapabilityRefugeeFanaticsGazaHamasWorld ProblemsSardines Author:Moshe Arens
“I don't want to involve myself in the various arguments about why Israel was created . . . . . I want to deal with the situation at hand which is the ongoing killing on both sides. . . . . . . It's true that there's also much oppression of Palestinians in Arab countries, where Palestinians aren't allowed to vote or own property and are treated as second class citizens and pawns in the fight against Israel. But I'm not going to spend my time on this since there is isn't a whole lot I can do about it.” WantI CanCountryWholeHandsFightingSidesCan DoDealsSituationClassCitizensArgumentVotePropertyKillingVariousIsraelTreatedOppressionMy TimePalestinianBoth SidesOngoingPawnsSecond Class Citizens Author:Michael Moore
“Beyond that is the fear that the United States will end up negotiating and agreeing to a deal with Iran. The Israelis do not like that either because they fear the deal will come at the expense of Israel's security interests. From an Israeli perspective, the NIE makes the risk of some sort of settlement much greater.” EndsStatesInterestUnitedDealsUnited StatesGreaterRiskSecurityPerspectiveIsraelIranExpensesIsraeliSettlementNegotiating Author:Trita Parsi