Ehud Barak Quotes

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• If we thought that instead of 200 Palestinian fatalities, 2,000 dead would put an end to the fighting at a stroke, we would use much…
• If I were a Palestinian of the right age, I'd eventually join one of the terrorist organizations.
• But I should tell you honestly that this administration under President Obama is doing in regard to our security more than anything that I can…
• But at the end of the day, when the military command looks up, it sees us — the minister of defense and the prime minister.…
• We are talking about a major change in reality that has to come about, ... We are not idiots. If it turns out that this…
• At this place, Jews have prayed throughout the generations, and it is fitting that the message of brotherhood should go out from here.
• Iran poses the most serious long-term threat to regional stability.
• Until the wolf shall lay with lamb, we'd better be the wolves.
• The Palestinians are like crocodiles, the more you give them meat, they want more.
• Israel is surrounded by a raging sea, parts of which are not willing to accept us as a partner with equal rights among the nations.…
• I want to study, to write to live and have a good time.
• I delivered lectures, and I was also a consultant for international companies in finance, both private equity and big venture capital funds.
• I don't do anything to impress anyone, quite successfully I can tell you.
• I don't feel opportunistic ever, in anything.
• I'm no wealthier than Bibi Netanyahu or Arik Sharon. I don't feel that I'm more hedonistic than Ehud Olmert, or Yitzhak Rabin or Shimon Peres.
• I'm such a failed politician that all of my rivals have disappeared, on both sides.
• In Israel, generally speaking, politics is much more familiar than any other place. We all know each other.
• We want peace, but not at any price.
• Since the Six-Day War, the whole world, which is the real arena of battle between us and the Palestinians, believes that Israel is right in…
• There is a thin line between peace of the brave and peace of the hostage... between compromise - even calculated risk - and irresponsibility and…

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