Tom Paulin Quotes

Should we consider recognizing Israel?

The United States cannot want peace more than the Palestinians and the Israelis.

Iran is part of the problem, not the solution. And the Russian government is ignoring reality.

Britain, along with the U.S.A., is war weary, and after the travesty of Iraq and Afghanistan, has grave misgivings in any future involvement in the Middle East. The ghost of Tony Blair and his single-minded determination to attack Iraq, at any cost, has cast a long shadow over British politics. The British public have a long collective memory.

The Syrians lost out because they happened to have their revolution during an election cycle in America, France, and bizarrely, some kind of election cycle in Russia. Obama wasn't going to be seen to commit anything to Syria, that would be political suicide, but he's also got a Nobel Peace Prize sitting on his mantelpiece.

Most of the approaches to peace between Israel and the Palestinians, have been directed at trying to resolve the most complex problems, like refugees and Jerusalem, which is akin to building the pyramid from the top down.

The United States has dealt with the Middle East and surrounding regions for many decades in the context of the Cold War.

U.S.-Israel relations are often depicted as an extended honeymoon, but that's a false image.

I think that peace will require two states, a Palestinian state that recognizes the Jewish state.

Sanctions aren't about weapons of mass destruction. People need to understand that.

It is crystal clear to me that if Arabs put down a draft resolution blaming Israel for the recent earthquake in Iran it would probably have a majority, the U.S. would veto it and Britain and France would abstain.

This president failed so miserably in diplomacy that we are now forced to war.

I have never believed you go to war in Iraq, you go to war in Afghanistan, and believe that you can deal with those battlefields, those countries, in microcosms, or narrow channels.

The reason was the failure of both Japan and China to understand each other and the inability of America and the European powers to sympathize, without prejudice, with the peoples of East Asia.

Now, when we say we want peace, what we want is really for our Palestinian neighbours to have a demilitarized state next to us that recognizes the Jewish State. We're willing to recognize their state, the Palestinian state. But we ask them to recognize the Jewish state.

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.

I would like to see real peace and a state of Israel living peacefully alongside a state of Palestine.

The United Nations Security Council is there to protect the interest of the Americans and the British.

Historians in the future will surely wonder what went so wrong when the United States, for the first time ever, focused its foreign policy on the Islamic world.

There are a lot of starry eyed State Department boys busting to raise the standard of living of Arabs who should be all killed off… no State Department people should be permitted in a theater of war, nor at the peace treaty

I am saddened, saddened that this President [George W. Bush] failed so miserably at diplomacy that were now forced to war.

We are caught in the Middle East in supporting the bad guys in order to get rid of the worse guys.

We had to avoid wounding Austria too severely; we had to avoid leaving behind in her any unnecessary bitterness of feeling or desire for revenge; we ought rather to reserve the possibility of becoming friends again with our adversary of the moment, and in any case to regard the Austrian state as a piece on the European chessboard and the renewal of friendly relations as a move open to us. If Austria were severely injured, she would become the ally of France and of every other opponent of ours; she would even sacrifice her anti-Russian interests for the sake of revenge on Prussia.

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

No peace with Israel, no recognition of Israel, no negotiations with it