Mitchell Reiss Quotes

A peace deal requires agreements, and you don't make agreements with your friends, you make agreements with your enemies.

I believe however that peace is attainable regardless of the Arabs mentality, society or government.

Intervention only works when the people concerned seem to be keen for peace.

Peace is a question of will. All conflicts can be settled, and there are no excuses for allowing them to become eternal.

If you are going to make peace, you can't just meet nice people.

Sharon is capable of making peace.

You can only end a negotiation for peace if you begin it.

If you want to make peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.

If you want peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.

If you want to bring an end to long-standing conflict, you have to be prepared to compromise.

Peace is not wimpy. It's about sitting down and negotiating with people you hate. Ultimately, all occupation ends, and you have to deal with the enemy.

In order to have peace in the Middle East both sides are going to have to put away history and make a leap of faith.

A war is not won if the defeated enemy has not been turned into a friend.

According to the “ripeness theory,” every conflict reaches a point when the parties are tired of confrontation and determine it is in their interest to make peace. With practical steps, principled leadership, and encouragement from the international community, the peace process still represents a win-win for both sides.

It is impossible for either nations or individuals, in the management of a dispute, to have the benefit of two opposite chances. They may be, from the first, moderate, pacific, magnanimous; they will thus secure certain advantages, and they will lose possible advantages. They may, on the contrary, be haughty, warlike, and selfish ; their chances and advantages will then be the reverse of the former. It is impossible to unite the two.

You don't make peace with your friends. That's the bottom line. You end conflicts by trying to find some political resolution.

It's impossible to impose peace, only to create it.

Direct talks is the only possible way to build trust and to resolve the conditions for a peace perspective between Palestinians and Israelis.

There is no conflict in the world that cannot be solved.

Needless to say, if the Arab-Israeli conflict is about interstate disputes and the need to resolve the future of the West Bank and Gaza, it can be solved; if it is a religious conflict, nothing but violence is ahead.

There should be an honest attempt at the reconciliation of differences before resorting to combat.

Peace has to be created, in order to be maintained. It will never be achieved by passivity and quietism.

A peace talk is always difficult, always complicated.

If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner.

As Prime Minister of Israel, I will introduce a bill into the Knesset that will simply pay the Arabs not to shoot at the Jews.