Ehud Olmert Quotes

One of the biggest problems that Egypt faces is the lack of border security - the importation of weapons on their way to Gaza, for example, coming out of Sudan.

The international community should pressure Iran to get the Houthis to agree to some peaceful understanding in Yemen. But at the same time, Saudi Arabia also needs to believe truly in democracy for Yemen.

We are not at war with Egypt. We are in an armed conflict.

You need to think, when you get involved in wars, how you're going to get out of them.

I can honestly say I've never sold any arms to a repressive foreign regime while reassuring everyone at home that the weapons will be used for nice things.

We must take the profit out of war.

War is a racket. It always has been... A few profit - and the many pay. But there is a way to stop it. You can't end it by disarmament conferences. You can't eliminate it by peace parleys at Geneva. Well-meaning but impractical groups can't wipe it out by resolutions. It can be smashed effectively only by taking the profit out of war.

In case of war, a treaty would have to be made at the end of the war.

War is failure of diplomacy.

Wars without military objectives have a tendency to go on forever.

Major General Thomas Jesup has committed an unprecedented violation of that sacred rule which has ever been recognized by every nation, civilized and uncivilized, of treating with all due respect those who had ever presented themselves under a flag of truce before the enemy, for the purpose of proposing the termination of warfare.

It's very easy to get into a war, but I don't know how you extricate from one.

War is no picnic. Wars should be prevented, and if you can't prevent them, you have to put them off.

The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it.

There's no doubt that our hearts are with the residents of Gaza. We and the whole world are unable to get to a situation in which Gaza can be rehabilitated. There needs to be an international initiative with Israel's participation, in order to bring an end to the enmity against us.

We need to restart political processes to end wars.

I cannot conceive of Israel withdrawing if Arab states do not recognize Israel, within secure borders.

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.

It is better for the Arab countries themselves to interfere out of their national, humanitarian, political and military duties and to do what is necessary to stop the bloodshed in Syria.

It cannot be too often stressed that Israel had no credible pretext for its 2008-9 attack on Gaza, with full U.S. support and illegally using U.S. weapons.

The failure to set standards for Palestinian conduct hurts the cause of peace.

I do not believe in terrorism, violence, destruction, murder, pre-emption, or War.

I guess if people couldn't profit from war I don't think there would be war.

We wanted this war and now we've got it, and I'm not sure that we know what to do with it.

Are these the Americans? People remain silent and placate the Americans. By God, they only deserve scorn. We slaughtered them yesterday and we will continue to slaughter them.