Ehud Olmert Israel Quotations

I don't know that there is one serious American representative that will advise Israel to sit with a terrorist government and negotiate with them.

The military operation in Lebanon was the most successful military operation in recent Israeli history. Many in Israel don't recognise that.

When the President of Iran talks about removing Israel from the face of the Earth and is building nuclear bombs with a range of 3000km, you have to be worried.

Israel always has to be in a position to defend itself against any adversary and against any threat of any kind.

In Israel we tend to be carried away by our emotions.

Iran is a major threat to the well-being of Europe and America just as much as it is for the state of Israel.

I am focused on what needs to be done for the people of Israel. Period. I do not pity myself and I do not pat myself on the shoulder. I get up in the morning full of energy to fulfill my mission.

I never thought that Syria and Israel should engage in a violent confrontation because I don't think that there is any particular interest for any of us to do it.

There is no ceasefire. There will not be any ceasefire.

Who thinks seriously that if we sit on another hilltop, on another hundred meters, that this is what will make the difference for the state of Israel's basic security?

If the day comes when the two-state solution collapses, and we face a South African-style struggle for equal voting rights (also for the Palestinians in the territories), then, as soon as that happens, the State of Israel is finished,

Israeli lives are worth more than Palestinian ones.

Peace is important for Israel.

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.

I dont know that there is one serious American representative that will advise Israel to sit with a terrorist government and negotiate with them.

History has proven that when the people of Israel unite under a serious and responsible leadership, we know how to overcome all challenges and overcome all obstacles.

We clarified that without a clear abandonment of the path of terror, a recognition of Israel's right to exist in security and peace ... Israel won't have any contact with the Palestinians.

put Israel back into international isolation ... and cause friction with the United States -- our great friend -- and hostility with Europe.

There will be no reverse in this decision, ... The Orient House has become a symbol of provocations, of almost endless activities against the law of Israel and against the status of Israel in the united city of Jerusalem and as such it had to be closed.

If the Palestinians agree to act soon, we will sit at the negotiating table in order to create a new reality ... . If they do not, Israel will take its fate into its own hands.

The direction is clear: We are headed toward a separation from the Palestinians. We are headed toward the determination of a permanent border for the state of Israel. We will protect Jerusalem's unity. We will hold onto the main settlement blocs. But the borders we have in mind are not those Israel has today.