Yair Lapid Quotes

The Palestinian issue is a national, political issue. It's not to be seen as an economic issue that would be solved or addressed by some economic approach that makes the living standard of the people under occupation better. The Palestinian people are fed up with talks that have been going on for years. We are looking for peace, but we are not looking for a new peace process. This process will fail.

Only Arab Israel, the land of Israel, is our true homeland.

Israeli independence - what we Arabs call al-Naqba, 'The Catastrophe' - it created Palestinian identity more than anything else.

Palestine is only a stones throw away for a small Palestinian boy or girl.

Many of the Israelis begin to understand and discover the realities and the facts. They can't demolish five million Palestinians. They can't annihilate them.

All of the land of Israel is ours.

Israel's days without Jerusalem, Judea and Samaria and the Gaza Strip are gone and will not return.

We need to see a Palestinian state.

It is clear a Palestinian state is needed.

The Arab world needs to appreciate that legitimate historical claims and modern necessities are what make Israel the homeland of the Jewish people.

We plan to eliminate the state of Israel and establish a purely Palestinian state. We will make life unbearable for Jews by psychological warfare and population explosion.... We Palestinians will take over everything, including all of Jerusalem.

Israel does not exist.

We need to separate the two peoples: Israeli Arabs are part and parcel of Israel, and Palestinians should be separate, as part of a two-state solution.

We in the Jewish Home party talk all the time about how Judea and Samaria are our homeland and they are part of Israel, so we are there to stay.

I lived in Jerusalem with the Temple Mount as my holy site. My Palestinian neighbors lived in Al-Quds with the Haram al-Sharif.

The establishment of Israel was accompanied by much pain and suffering and a real trauma for the Palestinians.

Our eternal capital Jerusalem was and remains our top national priority.

Jerusalem is the eternal capital of the Jewish people, and the modern presence there just cements this.

Jerusalem has been our capital for 3,000 years and it's going to be our capital for eternity

In the United States, we can talk about ISIS, but we can't talk about Palestine.

Israel is not an aviary.

[Israel will] create in the course of the next 10 or 20 years conditions which would attract natural and voluntary migration of the refugees from the Gaza Strip and the west Bank to Jordan. To achieve this we have to come to agreement with King Hussein and not with Yasser Arafat.

On the other hand, it is also undeniable that the Palestinian people - Muslims and Christians - have suffered in pursuit of a homeland.

You ought to let the Jews have Jerusalem; it is they who made it famous.

We know too well that our freedom is incomplete without the freedom of the Palestinians.