Silvan Shalom Quotes

For all their current prestige, Osama bin Laden and the suicide bombers are still regarded in all but the most desperate districts of Gaza or Peshawar as romantics with little chance of more than symbolic victories, however bloody and brutal. That gives both the Middle East and the West a small and distant hope of security.

I never call it an insurgency. I call it terrorism.

Syria is hosting the most dangerous terrorist organizations.

Anytime ISIS takes ground, it's a bad thing.

Where radical Islamism is going to be a factor, it's going to be very, very tough.

We think that Kosovo will continue to serve as a centre of violence and regional instability in future.

Somalia is very dangerous, and no one knows that better than I.

What a war in Iraq will not do is bring about peace in the Middle East or end the injustices that feed resentment and breed terrorists.

I mean, the Taliban, my view is that they have been weakened. We have not seen them able to conduct any kind of organized attack to regain any territory that they've lost. We've seen levels of violence going down.

Pakistan now is like a horror film franchise. You know, it's 'Friday the 13th, Episode 63: The Terrorist from Pakistan.' And each time we hear of Pakistan it's in that context.

We're still stymied by the old stand-off between those who wish to fight terrorism and resistance fighters.

This war on terrorism is going to continue for an indefinite period of time.

You cannot make peace with terrorists. The normal dividing lines between war and peace do not apply.

Anyone who follows the Middle East and Islamic world in general can't deny it is often a very violent place, that a band of instability now stretches from Algeria to Pakistan.

Terrorism is a significant threat to peace and security, prosperity and people.

And we need to maintain our foothold in the fight against terrorism and terrorist groups and respond to any degradation of Iraqi security or stability.

We must find out where the roots of terrorism lie.

You're always going to have terrorism.

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

More terrorists and extremists have been captured or killed in Pakistan than in any place in the world.

Like crime, terrorism is a fact of life. I grew up in Israel, where every unattended bag was a suspected bomb; when my family moved for a few years, it was to London in the early years of 'the Troubles.'

We will not let Hamas undermine our security and draw our country to bloodshed.

In any insurgency, the insurgents are in a win-win situation. Even though there is anger towards the insurgents as the result of violence, there is also anger towards the authorities for not protecting people.

The entire world is the front line for terrorism.

Israel can either shoot or shout, but it is politically impossible to be silent about terrorism