Action Quote by Ronald Reagan

Most recently, terrorist forces have captured Israeli soldiers and fired rockets into Israeli cities - both unprovoked. These acts of aggression deserve the rapid…

— John Boehner

The problem in defense is how far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without.

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

Unprovoked attacks on Israel's borders, murdering Israeli soldiers, taking Israeli hostages and showering rockets targeting and killing Israeli civilians are not furthering any legitimate…

— Alcee Hastings

We target the Israeli occupation, not civilians. We are defending ourselves with the simple military means that we have at our disposal. We are…

— Khaled Mashal

We have switched from defense to offense and in this battle all the members of the Hamas leadership are legitimate targets.

— Tzachi Hanegbi

If you take a shot at someone, you keep firing until they can no longer return fire. Wound them, and you have an angry…

— Karen Traviss

Given the genocidal belligerence of Iranian threats against Israel, it is hard to take issue with Israel's right to preemptive self-defense.

— Conrad Black

Israel has the right to shell Palestinian hospitals and schools out of self defense...

— Elizabeth Warren

When Israelis in the occupied territories now claim that they have to defend themselves, they are defending themselves in the sense that any military…

— Noam Chomsky

It is natural that we should always expect an Israeli attack, even when it does not threaten.

— Bashar al-Assad

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

— Richard Engel

In fighting terror, you cannot let it interfere with the normal life of civilians in Israel.

— Yitzhak Rabin