Israel Quotes by Richard Engel

ISIS is in many ways a creation of the Syrian regime.

— Richard Engel

If Israel sees weapons moving toward its border, it acts.

— Richard Engel

A lot of Iran's empowerment is a result of the war in Iraq.

— Richard Engel

By 2007, Iraqi society had completely collapsed.

— Richard Engel

Damascus was the seat of the Ummayad Caliphate in the 7th and 8th centuries.

— Richard Engel

Rockets fired by the Taliban generally aren't guided.

— Richard Engel

It's probably time to end the global war on terrorism.

— Richard Engel

9/11 was a terrible, horrific, tragic day.

— Richard Engel

The people of Gaza are trapped. Israel has sealed the border, and they have no way to leave the Gaza Strip to…

— Richard Engel

Afghanistan and Iraq were lumped together in what was called a 'global war on terrorism.'

— Richard Engel

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

— Richard Engel

Israel specifically does not want Syria to hand over weapons, chemical or conventional, to Hezbollah.

— Richard Engel

ISIS controls a territory roughly the size of Maryland where 8 million people live. If it's attacked and toppled, who will fill…

— Richard Engel

The Taliban mostly attacks international and Afghan security forces. They rarely carry out attacks in markets.

— Richard Engel

The U.S. presence and American missteps made ethnic violence in Iraq far worse than it would have been otherwise after Saddam Saddam…

— Richard Engel

Assad's regime helped ISIS grow by attacking other opposition forces and rarely targeting ISIS.

— Richard Engel

I don't think you're going to be seeing the U.S. employing large army divisions to deal with small terrorist groups again. I…

— Richard Engel

Turkey wants to see Bashar al-Assad go and wants to kind of expand its sphere of influence into Turkey so its Ottoman…

— Richard Engel

We know that al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula has some very dangerous, very important leaders who are tied directly to the…

— Richard Engel

When you look at Syria, and you look at all the militant groups on the ground, there are many groups in Syria…

— Richard Engel

Based on the people l've spoken to, I think the impression is: Is America safer from Al Qaeda? Yes. Is America weaker…

— Richard Engel

For decades, Saddam and his Sunni minority had imposed their will on Iraq, carrying on a 14-century tradition of Sunnis controlling Mesopotamia…

— Richard Engel

Many senior government officials, CIA, FBI, counter terrorism officials - when they look back at the decade, they effectively conclude that the…

— Richard Engel

The United States encouraged Iraqis to rise up after Saddam Hussein's army was driven out of Kuwait. Washington assumed Saddam was weak…

— Richard Engel

For years, Lebanese have known that Palestinian camps like Nahr al-Barid and Ain al-Helwe - hopeless slums crowded with generations of disenfranchised…

— Richard Engel

The Muslim Brotherhood is a fundamentalist group.

— Richard Engel

The Muslim Brotherhood is much more hardline than Turkish Islamists.

— Richard Engel

The Taliban may pine for a pre-industrial society, but most Afghans do not.

— Richard Engel

Israel is shutting out the Arab world and shutting itself in.

— Richard Engel

Israel sees the world just beyond its borders collapsing.

— Richard Engel

Afghanistan was always a backwater in the Islamic world.

— Richard Engel

To be slapped with a shoe is a dirty insult in the Muslim world.

— Richard Engel

Staying in a very public fight with the U.S. is exactly what Al Qaeda wants.

— Richard Engel

Hamas is a Palestinian political party with an aggressive militant wing.

— Richard Engel

Many governments are quick to condemn Assad, but a dwindling number of them would celebrate a rebel victory in Damascus.

— Richard Engel

The Arab Spring is over. The days of the protesters with laptops and BlackBerrys in Tahrir Square are long gone.

— Richard Engel

Under a decades-old agreement, Palestinian refugee camps are supposed to administer and police themselves. Lebanese troops are technically not allowed to enter…

— Richard Engel

If Syria collapses completely, the United States and the world would have to consider who, and what, fills the vacuum.

— Richard Engel

The truth was, there was never a connection between Iraq and Osama Bin Laden. There were no weapons of mass destruction, either.

— Richard Engel

Israel is becoming a fortress. Fences along the borders with Egypt, Lebanon, and Syria.

— Richard Engel