Richard Ben Cramer Quotes

My conviction is that the best strategy to defend the West is to defend Israel.

Africa, and Zambia in particular, drifted away from the West for a long time, and we have to reconcile.

Both Bibi and Obama realize that they are going to have to face the problem of Iran together.

When the Egyptians decide something, probably it is not appropriate for the U.S. When the Americans decide something, this, of course, is not appropriate for Egypt.

We would like to have friendly regimes with enough broad participation of their populations to maintain long-term stability, so that we would have not only access to the region's wealth, but we would be able to ensure the security of our good friend Israel.

Syria and Iran have always had a pretty tight relationship, and it looks to me like they just cooked up a press release to put out to sort of restate the obvious. They're both problem countries; we know that. And this doesn't change anything.

Then the administration tied it in to the regional dispute between Israel and its enemies, as if that's about international terrorism. No, it's not.

The harm done to Israel is damage done to the West. And delegitimizing Israel is a delegitimization of the West.

Everything that could produce a clash between the Arab world and the West seemed dangerous to me.

I think Gadhafi is on the mark. And up until this point in time, I think they truly want to turn this around and become a positive player with the West after years and years of terrorism and stagnation.

Support for Israel is not only crucial for the United States but for the West.

Doesn't it seem awfully strange that the Iraqi government we support is an ally of the Iranians who are our declared enemies? Are we not now supporting the Iranians by propping up their allies in Iraq?

It has become increasingly clear that Pakistan’s chief aim in aligning with the West was to gain support against India

Saudi Arabia needs friends. We are in a war in Yemen, in a confrontation with Iran, so we need friends like Canada, Europe.

There should be no doubt why Israel, our best friend and greatest ally in the Middle East, has determined that Iran poses an existential threat.

Israel's relations with the United States are a cornerstone, and without them, we cannot make our way in the current global climate.

The United States provides Israel with crucial security and economic aid and invaluable political backing in the international arena.

There is nowhere I encounter greater understanding for Israel's existential issues than in the Oval Office.

I don't think that everything is a zero-sum game in which, when the president of the United States says something, that means that he is pro-Palestinian and anti-Israeli, or vice versa.

The U.S.-Israel relationship is so important.

The Iranians are abusing the Israeli-Palestinian conflict to gain more support from radical elements in the region.

The only good thing I can say about the deal with Iran is that it brought the Arab states and Israel closer together.

There would be those of us who say that in many ways, you worry about what the Jews in Israel are doing to themselves. Yes, they may at the moment have incredible power and are supported almost unconditionally by especially America, but most of the West as well. Yet what they are doing is contrary to the best teaching and highest teachings of their faith.

It's not a matter of rejection (of Israel's existence). Israel is here, present by power.

We are the only people on Earth asked to guarantee the security of our occupier...while Israel is the only country that calls for defense from its victims.