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We do not know which irresponsible Israeli prime minister will take office and decide to use nuclear weapons in the struggle against neighboring Arab countries. What has already been exposed about the weapons Israel is holding can destroy the region and kill millions.

Benjamin Netanyahu has made the official policy of the Israeli government the two-state solution, at a time when he had opposition from many quarters. That is his official position. He remains publicly committed to it, but not just publicly; also in diplomacy, totally committed to moving swiftly toward that solution.

Every single attempt has never achieved national dominance of the political system and the reason because they don't have the deep roots in the Israeli ideological system,

Every day, they are hitting any town, any city, any suburbs. This is something that's becoming a daily practice of the Israeli army.

Different Israeli governments have dithered on this matter in recent years. The time has come to talk plainly and take the necessary steps.

first time that an Israeli prime minister agrees to give in on Jerusalem. It is the first time that an Israeli prime minister agrees to have, I would say, another government ruling -- I speak about the Palestinians -- in Jerusalem.

The United States believes we have a right to defend our people, ... The U.S. is very clear we have to give the best security to the Israeli people.

Israel is a wonderful place to be an artist - a place where imagination flourishes. Israeli culture is refreshingly avant garde - making films, music, performance art and visual art that continues to push the envelope, inspire and empower.

Israel is a democracy; everyone can say what they would like to. But they are a very very small minority in Israeli public opinion.

Israeli mainstream political parties are rejecting the Palestinian right of return and withdrawal from (East) Jerusalem to the 1967 borders and are refusing to dismantle Jewish settlements. The dilemma of the US policy is that it puts Israeli interests ahead of its own. That's what creates a crises for it in the region ... It is in the interest of the United States to change its biased foreign policy.

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

Israel cannot afford that an Israeli citizen will not be able to visit part of his country, not to speak about the holiest place for the Jewish people.

Israel and the Palestinians had been at the table together for decades until the Obama/Mitchell/Rahm Emanuel decision to demand a total end to Israeli construction froze not the settlements but the diplomacy.

The withdrawal has created a new legal reality in Gaza. The dismantling of the Israeli military government brings to an end Israeli authority over the area and transfers its responsibility to the Palestinians.

The security meetings were good, but it's clearly not enough. What's important is what happens on the ground, and what's happening on the ground is continuous violence against Israeli civilians.

The State of Israel has faced obstacles and challenges to its very survival, with conventional military attacks leading the way to suicide bombers who have killed innocent Israeli men, women, and children.

The situation in the region is flammable and may explode at any moment, because of the crucial events and because of the absence of justice in executing the international legitimacy resolutions, regarding the Israeli Arab cause and the oppression on Palestinians by Israelis.

The secretary is always hopeful but thinks significant gaps remain between the Israeli and Palestinian positions. She will work to overcome those gaps but at this time has no reason to believe we're in a position to bridge those gaps. She is nether optimistic nor pessimistic but believes the process cannot go on indefinitely.

The tectonic plates of Israeli politics are moving to the center. Because Sharon could speak to both the right and the left, he could carry out this almost impossible mission of disengagement.

The tectonic plates of Israeli politics are moving to the center, ... Because Sharon could speak to both the right and the left, he could carry out this almost impossible mission of disengagement.

The murderers continue to go about their business. The Oslo (peace) accords that put the question of protection of Israeli citizens in the hands of a war criminal by any law continue to cause bloodshed,

The movement declares an end to its operations from the Gaza Strip against the Israeli occupation, which came . . . in response to the assaults by the enemy,

Some entertainers simply don't know much about history. Such analogies pollute public discourse, by trivializing the brutal horrors committed by the Nazis. Hitler was a maniacal dictator whose regime systematically annihilated six million Jews, and launched a world war that caused the deaths of more than forty million people. How can any reasonable person put Hitler and the Nazis in the same sentence as American or Israeli leaders, or Black conservatives?

Some entertainers simply don't know much about history, ... Such analogies pollute public discourse, by trivializing the brutal horrors committed by the Nazis. Hitler was a maniacal dictator whose regime systematically annihilated six million Jews, and launched a world war that caused the deaths of more than forty million people. How can any reasonable person put Hitler and the Nazis in the same sentence as American or Israeli leaders, or Black conservatives?

Some say let's not give them too much power. But we need power to do the things we believe in and change Israeli politics. In coalition talks, we don't want to have to compromise on what we believe in.

a reprehensible act of a bloodthirsty Jewish terrorist who sought to attack innocent Israeli citizens.

are central bases for terrorist factors responsible for the murder of scores of Israeli civilians.

As an Israeli company, security is of the utmost importance to us and we require rigorous security measures from terminal operators in every country in which we operate, but especially in Arab countries. And we are very comfortable calling at DP World's Dubai ports.

You're still not getting rid of me. I've already been at the front (of Israeli politics) for the past 60 years and I definitely plan to continue my job.

This is a supremely difficult diplomatic task. It is negotiating with multiple parties, dealing with the Israeli public that is reluctant to make concessions on either track and certainly is reluctant to make simultaneously large concessions on all tracks.

This is not news, ... This Israeli government is about consolidating the occupation. This Israeli government is about the expansion of settlements. So it doesn't come as a surprise at all. This is what we expect them to say.

This attack is particularly serious because they have penetrated an Israeli base.

They were huge and the whole team was over 6-5. We were basically a bunch of college guys, and we were pretty upset after the loss to the Israeli team.

They must say something to our public and to the Israeli public at least.

They don't have the organization behind them. They don't have the money behind them. And they're really based on one issue and one or two personalities and that's not enough to hold an Israeli party together.

There was never a situation where the formal political map was in such disharmony from Israeli civil society.

... There's a big difference between Israeli outlook on Hamas and Saudi outlooks. They do not regard Hamas as a terrorist organization and that's where the paths diverge in analysis from the beginning.

This is worst in the refugee camps, where there is the most poverty and the most frequent confrontations with Israeli soldiers.

This is a very strong statement of the Israeli economy and the aviation market.

There is the constant fear of suicide bombers, which is prevalent on every street. And you see a hopelessness because they are being occupied and feel they will never be removed from the yoke of Israeli occupation,

At Camp David in 2000, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak offered the Palestinian leader Yasir Arafat 94 percent of the West Bank; ten years later, Ehud Olmert offered Abbas 93.6 percent with a one-to-one land swap.

It is out of strength and not weakness that we are taking this step. We tried to reach agreements with the Palestinians which would move the two peoples towards the path of peace. These were crushed against a wall of hatred and fanaticism. The unilateral disengagement plan, which I announced approximately two years ago, is the Israeli answer to this reality.

It is true that this is not a shining path which will lead us to instant, magical solutions, but I am certain that only by going forward in this direction -- step by step -- will we be able to achieve security for the Israeli people, and reach the peace we all yearn for,

for a better government, for better security for Israeli citizens, for a better peace process.

It's clear that when young men strap dynamite to themselves and go into a crowded Israeli cafe, we are talking about terrorism, plain and simple.

They intended to lay explosives in the center of one of the Israeli towns and to inflict very heavy casualties,

They would come to this country, including U.S. spies, Israeli spies and British spies,

The militants will face Israeli courts and pay for the crimes they committed.

The international aid which is offered to our people is a humanitarian need for the Palestinian people who are still living under Israeli occupation.

The issue of public concern is not Sharon's health but the health of Israeli society.

The Israeli state is the aggressor and the occupier. The Palestinians are the victims. So who should recognize whom?

The Israeli say the road closures are to defend themselves, but it is really just a procedure to make our lives difficult, especially during Ramadan,

The Israeli police will be out there over the next few days, obviously to maintain security, to give the public obviously to feel confident.

The Israeli people are skeptical about the chances of a long-term peace, but if they saw it, they'd grab it. Any Israeli government that wants to be reelected should be interested in a lasting peace.

The Israeli occupiers should recognize Palestinian rights first.

The Israeli military believes it has destroyed all of Hamas's tunnels, or at least all the ones it knew about.

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 Israeli art market is difficult because people don't appreciate the amount of time and energy each piece requires. They see a piece and think it's made out of newspaper so they evaluate its worth based only on the material. They don't realize that I make every piece of it and that it takes many hours.

I identify with your pain, ... We know you moved there based on your conscience and the decision of Israeli governments.

I know the Israeli negotiating team, headed by our foreign minister, Shlomo Ben-Ami, left here with a feeling, with a sense that we do have something to work with and it is possible to move forward.

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

If our expected partners in the negotiations in the framework of the road map do not uphold their commitments, we will preserve the Israeli interest in every way.

In the spring of 2007, Israeli intelligence brought to Washington proof that the Assad regime in Syria was building a nuclear reactor along the Euphrates - with North Korean help. This reactor was a copy of the Yongbyon reactor the North Koreans had built, and was part of a Syrian nuclear weapons program.

Instead of being happy and celebrating the Israeli departure from Gaza, they are whining and crying, ... This will not help them build a future Palestinian state. What will the Israelis say if they are asked to make any more sacrifices? I don't know, but they may think it's not worth it if this is the result.

I remember in our first or second year, we had an Israeli who was walking outside the bunk at 2 o'clock in the morning. We said, 'Why aren't you sleeping?' He said, 'I can't fall asleep because I am afraid the Palestinian kid in my bunk is gonna knife me.

In accordance with the implementation of the disengagement plan 2005 law and following the decision of the Israeli government, you are required to leave your home and the Gaza Strip today, Monday 15/08/05.

If the method is noble - to liberate our land, to liberate our people from the Israeli deals, to reconstruct what is destroyed by Israel's long-standing occupation - at that time we can discuss.

can understand why Israeli officials are nervous ... because, if this is going to be successful, then the Israelis will be faced from their side with having to fulfill their obligations from the road map.

But with regards to Hezbollah, we are in a state of confrontation with Israeli occupiers and the battle is not over yet. It is still going on.

I am an Israeli-born American citizen.

He spoke in favor of Oslo. Who speaks in favor of Oslo anymore? ... If he goes on with these types of economic policy and foreign policy, I don't think he will draw the middle of Israeli society.

There was no such thing as Palestinians, they never existed.

I don't see how the Israeli people are served by another house here, another house there, when the big picture is to create a partnership with the Palestinians.

He also expresses concern about a marked increase in rocket attacks by Palestinian militants against Israeli targets.

Gradually, we want to separate our economy from the Israeli economy in agriculture, industry, health, and environmental issues.

It took me many years to understand that my identity is more Israeli than Jewish.

You can say for sure that the U.S. did not know about the Israeli raid before it happened.

These are places where Arabs and Jews would not normally travel and people they would not normally meet. The journalists write about what they find, how they feel and what they experience on these visits. Often their reactions are not necessarily what you would expect. It opens the door to a new type of dialogue between very different sectors of Israeli society.

These Israeli decisions are part of the policy of repression, terrorism and collective punishment against our people.

The escalation that has occurred is because (Palestinian Authority President Yasser) Arafat gave a green light to a variety of Palestinian organizations ... to attack Israeli targets.

The claim that Israel seeks to annihilate the Palestinians is simply a lie. Israel seeks to stop rocket attacks and tunnel invasions, and as long as Hamas is dedicated to those actions, they can expect a forceful Israeli reaction.

Everybody is in the pocket of the Israeli lobbies.

The list of U.S. vetoes at the Security Council to protect Israeli aggression and occupation is huge.

The Israeli strategy has been proven to be a complete failure.

Still, the American administration is following blindly the Israeli advisers in your policy, while they are pushing you to more and more disasters.

The Amman Agreement failed because there was American pressure, and Israeli pressure, on Jordan to deal alone.

In 1982, when Alexander Haig and [Ariel] Sharon put this plan to invade the south of Lebanon and Beirut, they imagined that in two or three or five days, they can demolish the PLO and destroy its infrastructure. What happened? The longest Arab - Israeli confrontation.

There will be competitors for Microsoft and for Israeli companies coming out of those countries although today the success, particularly in India, has mostly been in the software services area, outsourcing work, doing call centers and things like that,