Amos Oz Quotes

If you really wanted to settle down the Middle East, if what you wanted was change in the Middle East, it is perfectly obvious that the first step is resolving the Israeli/Palestinian conflict.

I think we've got to understand the complexity of the world that we are facing and no place is more so than in the Middle East.

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

I believe the government of the United States should re-examine its policies in the Middle East and adopt a more balanced stance toward the Palestinian cause.

I have a background and an understanding of what's happened in the Middle East that a lot of people don't have, because there's been no interest.

Britain, along with the U.S.A., is war weary, and after the travesty of Iraq and Afghanistan, has grave misgivings in any future involvement in the Middle East. The ghost of Tony Blair and his single-minded determination to attack Iraq, at any cost, has cast a long shadow over British politics. The British public have a long collective memory.

Yes, Israel's our ally. But, are the Palestinians our enemy? No, they are not.

My conviction is that the best strategy to defend the West is to defend Israel.

Israel ranks her priorities in the following way: security, land, and water.

I don't think that anyone seriously fears that the world can be blown to pieces all together. But what one can fear and rightly so are regional things, like in the Middle East, India, Pakistan, the Korean Peninsula, borders in Africa, etc.

I've always thought that if Israel really wanted to solve the problem, they'd just start tomorrow and push right to the Jordan River, and anything in their way goes. They don't need America or someone else to help.

Those in the international community that refuse to put red lines before Iran don't have a moral right to place a red light before Israel.

We have no opinion on the Arab-Arab conflicts.

We are caught in the Middle East in supporting the bad guys in order to get rid of the worse guys.

5000 out of 42 million Egyptians oppose the peace treaty with Israel.

There should be a Zionist state around Jerusalem.

The conflict in the Middle East is complex, multi-faceted, and unlikely to be resolved anytime soon.

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.

At the end of the day, Americans know that the ones they really can trust, in all the Middle East, it's only Israel.

AIPAC has consistently opposed a two-state solution, and a lot of members of Congress have been intimidated, and I don't think that's healthy.

Hamas is really a problem for the Palestinians and for Egypt more than Israel.

There is a conflict in the Middle East between two entities, and they're both right, each in their own way.

There's been a significant amount of Israelis who are joining my party because they think that Israel has to have a tough stance in this crazy environment called the Middle East.

I didn't go into politics out of concern for the Palestinians but out of concern for Israel.

Netanyahu personally is leading the campaign against the Arabs.