Amos Oz Quotes

I think America has to do more than be a broker now. Because both the Palestinians are weak and Israel is very weak.

The United States should encourage Israel to take further steps to improve the Palestinian economy.

Our two party platforms were emphatic about Jerusalem being the capital of Israel. For the Obama administration to remove this language from the Democratic Party platform drives a wedge into one of the few issues that our two parties agreed on.

I want to see Netanyahu speak to the Congress and speak to the American people about the real situation in Israel, and let me just say, I stand with Israel 100 percent, and I will never waiver on that.

I think the Barack Obama position and the majority position of American Jews and a lot of Americans is a two-state solution between Israel and Palestine. Settlements get in the way of that. If they're not stopped soon, there is no prospect for that type of solution.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel has denounced negotiation with Iran as a 'historic mistake' that is making the world 'a more dangerous place.' His partners in Washington vigorously echo that view.

We do not build new Jewish communities in Samaria, Judea and Gaza. The United States has never accepted our building of communities or of the fence. Yet, I've managed to develop relations between Israel and the United States even though President Bush never supported settlements.

The dissolution of the Oslo Accords would serve as the official act validating what we already know - that this failed framework is totally irrelevant in 2013.

American foreign policy has been - and must continue to be - based on unequivocal support for Israel's right to exist and to be free from terror.

On taking office in 2009, U.S. President Barack Obama put Israeli settlements at the center of U.S. policy in the Middle East.

The Bush Administration's failure to be consistently involved in helping Israel achieve peace with the Palestinians has been both wrong for our friendship with Israel, as well as badly damaging to our standing in the Arab world.

I had assumed that Bush's seemingly inflexible policy to support Sharon was for political reasons of his getting elected. But as to whether he really believes his actions are going to hasten the day of the final conflict, I do not know.

If America is truly Israel's greatest ally, we should not be asking it to put its citizens and future at risk by forcing the establishment of a hostile Palestinian state as the only option.

As the Palestinian leadership never seems to pay any penalty for its words, America's seriousness about the peace process is in doubt.

It is time to change our policy of appeasement toward the Palestinians, to strengthen our ties with the nation of Israel.

Unless and until something concrete is done about addressing the Israeli-Palestinian issue you won't get a real start on the war against terrorism.

How have the past four years served Israel or the Palestinians? We want a solution for the sake of humanity.

The future of Israel has been a key bipartisan concern for generations of Americans, and it is almost axiomatic that if the Palestinians have no viable future, neither does Israel.

To put it simply, my support of Israel will be just as strong the day after Prime Minister Netanyahu's address as it is today.

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

Israel is the only country in the world that is ready to make compromises - even though it did not lose any wars.

I didn't go into politics out of concern for the Palestinians but out of concern for Israel.

No one was talking about a two-state solution until the '90s, then it became an acceptable solution.

If America would really stand behind the two-state solution, they could make real pressure on Israel.

Obama has been the single worst president in modern American history in dealing with the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.