Stopping all the violent and hostile actions means ending the smuggling of arms into the Gaza territory.
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I trust the integrity of the British government and the British soldiers.
EHUD OLMERT I never took a bribe. This is the truth, and there is no other.
EHUD OLMERT Many Palestinians have been living for decades in camps, disconnected from the environment in which ...
EHUD OLMERT Dictates are futile, and mutual accusations are nothing but useless word games.
EHUD OLMERT Every word I wrote in my book is documented, certified, true, and correct. The truth wins, and that ...
EHUD OLMERT Emerging from embattled and humble beginnings, the Jewish state has exceeded all expectations for it...
EHUD OLMERT Arafat is the greatest instigator of terror.
EHUD OLMERT As a citizen of a democratic state, I have always believed that when a prime minister is elected in ...
EHUD OLMERT Terrorist groups and their extremist state sponsors cannot be fought with kid gloves and flowery wor...
EHUD OLMERT I have reached a conclusion that when we have to make a choice between greater Israel or a Jewish de...
EHUD OLMERT Today is the birthday of prime minister Ariel Sharon. We all pray for his health and wish for his sp...
EHUD OLMERT We can never totally return to the indefensible pre-1967 borders, ... We simply cannot afford to mak...
EHUD OLMERT There will be no reverse in this decision, ... The Orient House has become a symbol of provocations,...
EHUD OLMERT We're under pressure because we haven't reached the point where we can form a stable government yet.
EHUD OLMERT Everything that can strengthen Abu Mazen is favourable.
EHUD OLMERT Palestinian violence is not a response to the capture of the West Bank and Gaza. Palestinian nationa...
EHUD OLMERT I was not interested in being minister of defense or minister of foreign affairs.
EHUD OLMERT The Palestinian Authority is ruled by Hamas, an organization committed to vehement anti-Semitism, th...
EHUD OLMERT Israel stands proudly at the forefront of international achievement. The world's leading corpora...
EHUD OLMERT The State of Israel, in partnership with Project Better Place and Renault-Nissan, is set to become t...
EHUD OLMERT When public figures write memoirs, there is always some indecision regarding how much they want to w...
EHUD OLMERT The Palestinians are facing a historic junction at which they will have to decide whether they want ...
EHUD OLMERT Promoting tolerance and human dignity is one of mankind's unfinished challenges.
EHUD OLMERT The military operation in Lebanon was the most successful military operation in recent Israeli histo...
EHUD OLMERT I've been mayor of the city of Jerusalem, which is perhaps, in some ways, more complex and more ...
EHUD OLMERT I want you to be ready to take my place, Ariel Sharon told me.
EHUD OLMERT When armed people from Hamas and armed people from Fatah are standing opposite each other, there is ...
EHUD OLMERT There is nowhere I encounter greater understanding for Israel's existential issues than in the O...
EHUD OLMERT Maaele Adumim is part of Israel. Gush Etzion is part of Israel.
EHUD OLMERT [Palestinian militants] started this terror, they have made the use of human bombs, those suicidal a...
EHUD OLMERT The history of the Zionist enterprise is well-known: surrounded and outnumbered by hostile neighbour...
EHUD OLMERT When it was not very comfortable, politically, for me, I said things which lots of people didn't...
EHUD OLMERT I'm not expressing any ultimatum. If we reach the conclusion that the Palestinians are not prepared ...
EHUD OLMERT It's no secret that we won't invest in coming years the same sums we once invested in construction a...
EHUD OLMERT When I addressed international forums as prime minister, the Israeli people expected me to present b...
EHUD OLMERT As one of the participants in the Aqaba summit, I can testify that Israel fully expected the Palesti...
EHUD OLMERT Palestinians want Israel to return back into boundaries, the width of which is 12 km., that can be c...
EHUD OLMERT This is a sign of absolute weakness by the prime minister of Israel ... if he will technically agree...
EHUD OLMERT We are in a war, a very brutal war that has been waged against every Jewish person in the heart of J...
EHUD OLMERT These two leaders are determined to carry on this fight against terror, not by making statements, no...
EHUD OLMERT Disengagement is a response to certain demographic realities, ... Within a few years, due to the hig...
EHUD OLMERT I have faith in his judgment and in his sense of responsibility.
EHUD OLMERT This is a difficult situation that we are not accustomed to.
EHUD OLMERT I have to think about the possible ramifications of an early retirement.
EHUD OLMERT I don't like this terminology that you have no choice. You always have a choice.
EHUD OLMERT I'm entirely free of any suspicions or complaints about the Obama administration. I think the Ob...
EHUD OLMERT We believe that some maybe are still under the wreckage here, and the special units of the army are ...
EHUD OLMERT simply don't trust the Palestinians.
EHUD OLMERT The current situation cannot last,
EHUD OLMERT We are talking about a desire to define the permanent borders of Israel in the framework of an agree...
EHUD OLMERT Bibi wants to destroy everything for his own personal interests.
EHUD OLMERT Otherwise there can be no progress with an administration in which there are terrorist organizations...
EHUD OLMERT I always wake up early Saturday morning, and I have a little bit more time, so I go to the gym.
EHUD OLMERT A prime minister must not promise things that can't be fulfilled.
EHUD OLMERT Historic scores cannot be settled, and scars cannot be obliterated.
EHUD OLMERT I have to make sure that I am doing the right thing. I can't afford to make any mistake.
EHUD OLMERT What's the logic of investing millions in agriculture if it will not pay off?
EHUD OLMERT I love my country more than anything else.
EHUD OLMERT There is a Western world. There is America. There is Great Britain and Germany and France and Russia...
EHUD OLMERT When you fight for the impossible, sometimes you lose everything.
EHUD OLMERT The United States is a superpower whose influence reaches across oceans and beyond borders.
EHUD OLMERT The fundamental interest - long-range strategic interest - of the state of Israel is that we will ha...
EHUD OLMERT There is a thin line between peace of the brave and peace of the hostage... between compromise - eve...
EHUD BARAK Iran sees India, China, Pakistan and, allegedly, Israel around them with nuclear weapons.
EHUD BARAK The Islamization process in Arab countries is very disturbing.
EHUD BARAK When you launch a surgical operation, you must already be well deployed to follow it through with la...
EHUD BARAK Once Iraq becomes a nuclear power, the very decision to go to war against it would become a totally ...
EHUD BARAK If Israel does not find the way to disengage from the Palestinians, its future might resemble the ex...
EHUD BARAK I will not discuss future hypothetical situations.
EHUD BARAK Israel cannot afford to be duped.
EHUD BARAK Prime Minister, you have blood on your hands.
EHUD BARAK At this place, Jews have prayed throughout the generations, and it is fitting that the message of br...
EHUD BARAK The red line must be drawn on Iran's nuclear enrichment program because these enrichment facilit...
EHUD BARAK a gimmick that has no importance.
EHUD BARAK I am confident the Obama administration will work professionally with any Israeli government.
EHUD BARAK I delivered lectures, and I was also a consultant for international companies in finance, both priva...
EHUD BARAK The Palestinian Authority cannot hold the stick at both ends: to incite violence, to participate in ...
EHUD BARAK I don't think the CIA should be involved in counting the number of policemen in the Gaza Strip to ch...
EHUD BARAK One of the lessons learned in the Middle East is to never try to anticipate the other side's mov...
EHUD BARAK There is a perception across the Middle East that America is weakened. I believe the perception is w...
EHUD BARAK The role of Europe, with Great Britain as a central player in it, could be to create an atmosphere o...
EHUD BARAK I still believe that Mr. Assad is a strong and reliable leader, ... He is the Syrian leader with who...
EHUD BARAK The Temple Mount is (the) only place under dispute,
EHUD BARAK Israel is much more effective when the Israelis are convinced that we are on the moral high ground: ...
EHUD BARAK I'm no wealthier than Bibi Netanyahu or Arik Sharon. I don't feel that I'm more hedonist...
EHUD BARAK we do not intend to drag our feet for another three years.
EHUD BARAK As a political leader, he is almost personally the dominant figure in every blunder that we have got...
EHUD BARAK I have to say in anguish that we have not yet succeeded, ... because we did not find a partner that ...
EHUD BARAK The people of the Middle East are ready for the dawn of a new era, ... I believe it is our duty, lea...
EHUD BARAK Your sensitivity, your gestures conquered the hearts of all Israelis.
EHUD BARAK Once there will be an agreement, if and when there will be an agreement, the enthusiasm within the p...
EHUD BARAK We want peace, but not at any price.
EHUD BARAK I believe the most complicated issue is Jerusalem , ... But I believe that if there will be a breakt...
EHUD BARAK hopeful that, in response to our readiness to take calculated risk, without violating our national i...
EHUD BARAK We came here to recommit to his way, we came here to tell him, 'Yitzhak, your way has won out, and w...
EHUD BARAK I cannot penetrate the soul of Arafat. I cannot know in advance whether, behind all the masks, he...
EHUD BARAK The Syrian rebels, weakened by infighting, have also been victims of the growing rift between the U....
EHUD BARAK We are filled with confidence that we will not let this opportunity get away from us. This time we w...
EHUD BARAK We came to tell you we are not afraid,
EHUD BARAK We do not lose hope,
EHUD BARAK Jerusalem and the Temple Mount are the cornerstones of Jewish identity. No Israeli prime minister wi...
EHUD BARAK Iran poses the most serious long-term threat to regional stability.
EHUD BARAK Time is running out, and I don't believe that President Clinton or Israel will be able to negotiate,...
EHUD BARAK I feel that the Israeli people want to see a new way of governing. The people want to see change, un...
EHUD BARAK I came here as a messenger of the people of Israel who have called for change and renewal. And I am ...
EHUD BARAK The true path requires courage ... and it is possible that the public is not fully ready for the pai...
EHUD BARAK In fact, we have finished displaying our positions. We displayed our readiness to examine ideas and ...
EHUD BARAK I'm sure that the people, like me, will stand by this government and do everything we can to help it...
EHUD BARAK Our children have to be educated in the values of equality, freedom of choice and democracy,
EHUD BARAK I suggest to everyone that you look less at gestures and more at action on the ground, ... Everythin...
EHUD BARAK There is a golden opportunity with Arafat in power, with Clinton still in power, with this governmen...
EHUD BARAK There are no negotiations, ... There are no discussions about renewing negotiations and first of all...
EHUD BARAK There is no failure, even though the level of expectation is very low.
EHUD BARAK In order to cooperate with him, you cannot weaken him beyond a certain point, you cannot humiliate h...
EHUD BARAK no reason to wait.
EHUD BARAK tough diplomatic battle. It is impossible to predict how long it will last or the results.
EHUD BARAK their own fate and the fate of their families, their children, all of us.
EHUD BARAK I stand my ground, look reality in the eye, remove the mask from (Palestinian President Yasser) Araf...
EHUD BARAK a true partner for (Yitzhak Rabin) all along his life, and the woman that carried the torch of the p...
EHUD BARAK We are doing what we are doing here to ensure that our children ... will be left with a stronger Isr...
EHUD BARAK united and eternal capital of Israel.
EHUD BARAK Just a year ago the public gave us a mandate to lead -- not to protect what exists, but to change th...
EHUD BARAK War is no picnic. Wars should be prevented, and if you can't prevent them, you have to put them ...
EHUD BARAK To think that you can - as a Zionist, Jewish independent state at the end of the 20th century - rule...
EHUD BARAK What we have is a bad atmosphere building up all over the Middle East, we have a new climate in whic...
EHUD YAARI It is a mathematical model of computation that is defined by a mathematical set of rules. By specify...
EHUD SHAPIRO This re-designed device uses its DNA input as its source of fuel.
EHUD SHAPIRO People are worried that fiber to the curb goes away. I don't think it's true.
EHUD GELBLUM In fact, we had a hard time counting all the ways (Chief Executive John) Chambers basically said Cis...
EHUD GELBLUM arbitrator, policeman and judge.
EHUD BARAK Since the Six-Day War, the whole world, which is the real arena of battle between us and the Palesti...
EHUD BARAK The Labor party under my leadership is working to bring the Israeli people together from all nationa...
EHUD BARAK I believe President Obama means everything he says about sticking to the unprecedented backing of Is...
EHUD BARAK We are living in an open world. There is a freedom of speech and, clearly, freedom of speculation.
EHUD BARAK Sometimes you have to subordinate strategic considerations to tactical needs.
EHUD BARAK Assad wanted Israel to capitulate in advance to all his demands. Only then would he agree to enter i...
EHUD BARAK Together with the president of the United States let us be able to bring peace and security to our p...
EHUD BARAK Leadership can change its mind; leadership can open its eye. Leadership can even be replaced.
EHUD BARAK Ladies and gentlemen, the relevant question is not when Iran will get the bomb. The relevant questio...
EHUD BARAK In Israel, generally speaking, politics is much more familiar than any other place. We all know each...
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