Israel Quotes by Ehud Barak

The Middle East is a region where predictions go to die.

— Ehud Barak

Benjamin Netanyahu seems to avoid any initiative.

— Ehud Barak

I tend not to believe radical Muslim movements.

— Ehud Barak

Israel's secret services are allowed to profile.

— Ehud Barak

The Islamization process in Arab countries is very disturbing.

— Ehud Barak

Israel cannot afford to be duped.

— Ehud Barak

I am the Israeli leader who met most with Arafat.

— Ehud Barak

ISIS has never fought a real battle.

— Ehud Barak

The Syrian rebels, weakened by infighting, have also been victims of the growing rift between the U.S. and its closest Arab allies.

— Ehud Barak

As prime minister, I was the Israeli leader who walked the greatest distance in his offers to the Palestinians.

— Ehud Barak

I do not believe the efforts of the international community to stop Iran's nuclear program will bear fruit.

— Ehud Barak

An independent, strong, thriving and peaceful State of Israel is the vengeance of the dead.

— Ehud Barak

The Palestinians are like crocodiles, the more you give them meat, they want more.

— Ehud Barak

Toward the Palestinians, Israel can only give. But when dealing with the entire Arab world, Israel can get a lot.

— Ehud Barak

Hezbollah will support Assad to the end because his continuing hold on power is critical to its own survival.

— Ehud Barak

There is no entity in the world that will dare attack Israel with chemical weapons.

— Ehud Barak

As long as in this territory west of the Jordan river there is only one political entity called Israel, it is going…

— Ehud Barak

The Israel legendary foreign minister, Abba Eban, used to say that the Palestinians had never missed an opportunity to miss an opportunity.

— Ehud Barak

If we thought that instead of 200 Palestinian fatalities, 2,000 dead would put an end to the fighting at a stroke, we…

— Ehud Barak

The aim of the Palestinian terror is not just to kill Israelis but also to break the will of Israeli society in…

— Ehud Barak

I hope any government formed in Egypt will understand there is no choice but to maintain the framework of international agreements, which…

— Ehud Barak

Israel fits into the zeitgeist of our era. It is true that there are demographic threats to its existence. That is why…

— Ehud Barak

Who can guarantee that if we allow the Palestinians to establish a state, we won't find rockets there as well, half a…

— Ehud Barak

I don't think that the Iranians, even if they got the bomb, they're going to drop it immediately on some neighbor. They…

— Ehud Barak

Israel is surrounded by a raging sea, parts of which are not willing to accept us as a partner with equal rights…

— Ehud Barak

The Arab leaders, they don't have a love affair with the Palestinians or the Palestinian leadership, but the publics have, and they…

— Ehud Barak

I remember my days as a graduate student at Stanford, within any leading university, a very active Israeli support, for Israel, Jews…

— Ehud Barak

Saddam Hussein has set an example of defiance, especially against the first President Bush, that other Arab leaders cannot and should not…

— Ehud Barak

For three years now, probably more, there is a clear common interest developed between Israel and the leading Sunni moderate entities. The…

— Ehud Barak

I compare the Middle East to a big condominium, we called shared residence? Well, you have many families that you don't like;…

— Ehud Barak

I cannot penetrate the soul of Arafat. I cannot know in advance whether, behind all the masks, he's the kind of leader…

— Ehud Barak

In Israel, there is a peace camp that can convene 200,000 people in central square of this city, on very short notice,…

— Ehud Barak

I think first of all that Iran is a problem for the whole world.

— Ehud Barak

Israel always has a special filter to look at things, and that is the attitude toward Jews.

— Ehud Barak

A strong, responsible Israel can become a stabilizer in such a turbulent region.

— Ehud Barak

You can easily justify to anyone about the need to keep supporting Israel. We get very generous support. We need it.

— Ehud Barak

Iran sees India, China, Pakistan and, allegedly, Israel around them with nuclear weapons.

— Ehud Barak

I am confident the Obama administration will work professionally with any Israeli government.

— Ehud Barak

International legitimacy is a fundamental source of power for Israel nowadays.

— Ehud Barak

In Israel, generally speaking, politics is much more familiar than any other place. We all know each other.

— Ehud Barak