Reuven Rivlin Quotes

The security and the future of Jordan is hand-in-hand with the future of the Palestinians and the Israelis.

I don't want to make people hate Israel or hate Palestine or hate Jews or hate Muslims.

What you have in the Middle East is tension not between Jews and Arabs, not between Israelis and Palestinians, but between the radical wing and the moderate people.

Israel is a piece of real estate that neither Jew or Arab will let go of; neither will leave these shores. And so they will have to learn to live together.

The only way to security for Israel and a humane life for Palestinians in their own land is political. No matter where the fault for past negotiating failures lies, there is no other path.

I feel that we don't have the luxury of asking whether or not the Palestinians and Israelis can achieve peace. I think we have to just ask the question of when and how.

If Catholics and Jews can today come together regularly for talks after so many tears and so much blood have been shed, than Jews and Arabs must be able to do the same.

I hope that France - and all of Europe - we would take an initiative for the year 2012 to be the year of peace between Israel and the Palestinians.

I think that a strong Israel is the only Israel that will bring the Arabs to the peace table.

In this part of the world, Jews and Arabs will live together forever.

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

Peace between Israel and Palestine is a top priority for the European Union, and it will remain a top priority in our political agenda.

Israel desperately needs peace if it is to come anywhere close to being the 'light unto nations' of Jewish dreams.

I believe that peace with the Palestinians is most urgent - urgent than ever before. It is necessary. It is crucial. It is possible. A delay may worsen its chances. Israel and the Palestinians are, in my judgment, ripe today to restart the peace process.

By focusing once and for all on helping the Palestinians build a free society, I have no doubt that an historic compromise between Israelis and Palestinians can be reached and that peace can prevail.

It is high time that the Arab world's professed desire for peace is matched by responsible action, and not more of the same equivocation.

In the Middle East, it is clear that peace will never be reached without solving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. A two-state solution must be found and enforced.

Moreover, resolving the mother of all problems - the Israeli-Palestinian question - requires cooperation between Europe and the U.S.

There is no solution to the conflict in this region except with the disappearance of Israel.

A precondition for any solution to the Arab Israeli problem must be a recognition on the part of all parties on the legitimacy of all parties. That is, you cannot build a political agreement on the premise that a Jewish state in Palestine is illegitimate.

Jews and Arabs have been living together for years and years

There is no such thing as a happy compromise. Israelis and Palestinians cannot become one happy family because they are not one, not happy and not family either. They are two unhappy families who must divide a small house into even smaller apartments. The first step, is to sign peace with clenched teeth, and after signing the contract, start working slowly on a gradual emotional de-escalation on both sides.

We must continue to foster relevant and constructive dialogue among Israeli and Palestinian communities.

You need to have a secure Israel, which is very clear, and you need to have a Palestinian community that feels it can have hope.

We have always realized, as Israelis and as Jews, that we are not fighting Islam and thus avoided turning the Temple Mount issue into a war of Jews against Muslims.