Yair Lapid Quotes

ISIS is in many ways a creation of the Syrian regime.

The fact is, the Middle East has been going crazy for 50, 60, 70 years. So it's not like, 'Oh, I need an ISIS joke.'

One of the greatest fears of the Arab world is a direct conflict between Israel and the Islamic State.

Syria is attracting a lot more Westerners than the Iraq War ever did because it's the perfect Sunni jihad.

ISIS is even at war with its most natural ally, al Qaeda in Syria.

We are tangled in a very significant Islamic insurgency in Iraq.

The presence of jihadis in Syria should be no surprise.

Israel lost its war. Will Assad's enemies lose, too?

Hamas has long been Israel's enemy, but in the wake of the Arab Spring, the group is empowered like never before.

I think it is absolutely correct to solve the problem of terrorism in Iraq and Syria and Libya.

ISIS despises the Russian government for its support of the Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad, and so it's no surprise that ISIS began targeting Russia in 2015, around the same time that Russia first intervened in the Syrian civil war.

ISIS is at war with America, but America is not at war with ISIS - not the president, nor the Congress, and certainly not the American people.

When you project weakness throughout the world, and you have a failed foreign policy, this is what you get. And now we have chaos in the Middle East, have ISIS taking over Iraq, Syria, Northern Africa, Egypt.

The threats against Israel are growing.

If anything caused ISIS, it was the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq.

Russia and Iran back Assad, but are they fighting Daesh? The answer is 'no.'

Syria is still the foundation of the axis of evil, and I'm not sure it's appropriate to transfer Israel's northern front to the axis of evil.

I've often said that the ISIS-Syria-Iraq mess is about as bad as it could be.

What happened in Iraq and Syria was that the world remained silent as ISIS expanded.

Hamas is ISIS, and ISIS is Hamas. They're branches of the same tree. People who wantonly rocket our cities and want to conduct mass killings. And when they can, they murder children, teenagers, shoot them in the head. Throw people from the sixth floor, their own people. ... They're the enemies of peace, they're the enemies of Israel, they're the enemies of all civilized countries. And I believe they're the enemies of the Palestinians themselves.

There is nothing in common between al-Assad and ISIS, they fight against each other.

The kind of problem that America faces in Iraq is a little bit the kind of problem that Israel faced in dealing with Hezbollah. If the conflict, the theater of conflict enlarges, it's going to become more and more absorbing and more and more costly.

There is little doubt that an unstable Syria will destabilize the whole Middle East.

For years, Lebanese have known that Palestinian camps like Nahr al-Barid and Ain al-Helwe - hopeless slums crowded with generations of disenfranchised Palestinian refugees who can't go home because of Israel, and can't work because of Lebanese laws - are awash with gunmen, criminals and, since the war in Iraq, al-Qaida inspired jihadists.

No border that touches Israel is always secure.