Bruce Dern Quotes

I'm not at all sure that Israel can determine what happens in Palestine, the Palestinian territories.

Yes, Israel's our ally. But, are the Palestinians our enemy? No, they are not.

When we distinguish between Israel's right to defend itself and settlements, then we legitimize its security needs; when we distinguish between isolated settlements and the blocs, then we legitimize the settlement blocs.

Israel never meant to take over the West Bank and Gaza - it got stuck with them after the 1967 war.

What happens in Israel should be decided between Israel and the Palestinians.

I am an American Jew and aware of the sensitivities involved in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

When the Israeli leaders launched their expansionist war in June 1967 they never envisaged that 40 years later they would still be haunted by the consequences.

I don't know where Bush is going - yet. But, Sharon obviously - I wrote somewhere in the last several months, that Sharon has adopted, essentially, the position of the Labor Party: that the Palestinians are here to stay.

The one thing that I'm absolutely sure about is that the people of Gaza aren't going anywhere. And neither are the people of Israel.

When a deeply sympathetic American president asks for concessions and compromises and appears able to cajole some from the Palestinians, which was the Clinton/Rabin and Bush/Sharon combination, Israel must respond.

While in Israel, Mitt Romney said something every sane person knows to be true: There is great cultural and political meaning in the fact that Israel has prospered while the Palestinians have festered.

Every Israeli government since 1967, of left or right, has asserted that Jerusalem is Israel's capital and has allowed Israeli Jews to build there.

We expect President Bush to implement his own vision of a two-state solution, the birth of the Palestinian State and the ending of the occupation that started in 1967.

It's not good for Israel to govern millions of Palestinians.

Jordan has a very important part in any Arab-Israeli peace process.

We use American influence with Israel not to promote economic growth in the West Bank, but to try and impede Jewish - never Arab - construction in the capital city.

He wants a two-state solution. He doesn’t know that the two-state solution is dead: dead and buried. And then he tells us we are occupying our own land [the Palestinian West Bank]. How can we occupy what is ours?”

Maaele Adumim is part of Israel. Gush Etzion is part of Israel.

The Palestinians have yet to demonstrate a commitment to the rule of law.

The Palestinians should have understood by now that what they haven't gotten today they won't be given tomorrow.

What we have really now is a one-state outcome in which Israel is the one and only state between the Jordan River and the sea. It can do whatever it wants virtually throughout the area. But that's not the kind of a state that's going to be a basis for peace and stability in the region.

So many people discuss, you know, Israel/Palestine as if it's people on a spectrum.

Netanyahu supports - and he truly does support - building a Palestinian state within Israel.

In my opinion, Israel has the right to its security in as much as the Palestinians have the right to resist occupation. Israel has the power in this perpetual stalemate, as it also has the power to break it and begin a meaningful peace process.

Palestine is the issue, and until this issue is resolved, there can be no peace.