Benny Gantz Quotes

A war in the Taiwan Strait would destroy China's international relations overnight. It would destroy Chinese - Japanese relations, not to mention Chinese - American relations.

You can't have a discussion about Israel and the region without including Iran and their nuclear ambitions.

There are two things that are very expensive in international relations: promises when they succeed and threats when they fail

On the global scale, if there's a shaky Middle East, there's a shaky world.

Both Israel and America should acknowledge that scraps of information cannot serve as the basis for action against Iran, and they should find new criteria for such a decision.

Both Bibi and Obama realize that they are going to have to face the problem of Iran together.

The Arab view that someone should bomb Iran and stop it from developing nuclear weapons is familiar to anyone who meets privately with Arab leaders, especially in the Gulf.

I don't think a wise thing at this moment is for Israel to launch a military attack on Iran.

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

Overwhelmingly, Israel's political and military establishment want the rest of the world to act diplomatically or otherwise to stop Iran. But if that doesn't happen, then the impulse toward the use of force will become quite strong.

The standards of the international community manifest firmness. Iran has no need for long-range missiles or to collaborate with terrorist organizations all over the world.

Any state surrounded by enemies will seek strategic depth.

We can't just pop off and drop a bomb on North Korea and think everything's going to be OK. It just doesn't work like that. It's a complicated puzzle.

I have long believed, especially after the unprovoked Western attack on Iraq and the ransacking of the Gaddafi regime in Libya, that North Korea would not desist from the full development of its nuclear weapons program, despite threats and sanctions from the West and even from China.

If China is not going to solve North Korea, we will.

Fundamentally, we have to recognize that Iran is not a partner.

We do not want war with Iran.

There are no second chances in the volatile Middle East.

We do not agree with policies that would lead to attempts at easing sanctions or lifting them and returning to business as usual with Russia. We believe that such behaviour will only embolden the aggressive behavior of Russia, as the last 12 years have shown, starting with Russia's attack on Georgia in 2008.

There is no common ground between us and Iran.

Iran is central to our foreign policy in the Middle East, a major player in global energy markets, and a key country in terms of our interaction with the Muslim world.

The Middle East is the tinder box of the world, and to be able to remove a nuclear threat of any kind out of Iran, that would have been a big deal, very positive step forward.

Being an occupier is not good for anybody's global standing. It is a catalyst for terrorist recruitment.

What's been happening in Iraq, what young Americans wearing flak jackets, helmets and flight suits have done is... created the circumstances under which Iraq can become our closest ally in that part of the world and still have a representative government. And that's going to be a very good thing considering what's going on in that neighborhood.

The United States prefers that Iraq meet its obligations voluntarily, yet we are prepared for the alternative.