John Podhoretz Quotes

I am an American Jew and aware of the sensitivities involved in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

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

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.

We are dealing with treachery and threats, which accompanied the establishment of Israel.

We do not build new Jewish communities in Samaria, Judea and Gaza. The United States has never accepted our building of communities or of the fence. Yet, I've managed to develop relations between Israel and the United States even though President Bush never supported settlements.

On taking office in 2009, U.S. President Barack Obama put Israeli settlements at the center of U.S. policy in the Middle East.

We use American influence with Israel not to promote economic growth in the West Bank, but to try and impede Jewish - never Arab - construction in the capital city.

As much as the Palestinian authority is criticized for being ineffective and corrupt, we must deal with them.

I don't think I'm anti-Israeli.

I'm not at all sure that Israel can determine what happens in Palestine, the Palestinian territories.

Israelis would mostly breathe a sigh of relief if Palestinians were to disappear.

It is difficult to think of a foreign policy issue that preoccupies and polarizes world opinion as much as the Palestinian question.

The Palestinian conflict is the glass ceiling of Israel's economy.

This is not to isolate Israel but rather to hold Israel to a higher standard that we also have to hold ourselves to as well.

I cannot recognise either the Palestinian state or the Israeli state. The Palestinians are idiots and the Israelis are idiots.

Israel's days without Jerusalem, Judea and Samaria and the Gaza Strip are gone and will not return.

There cannot be peace in the Middle East without giving Palestinians their full rights.

The Palestinians are not willing to do anything, they're not willing to make the strategic decision to dismantle the infrastructure of terrorist organizations.

I never believed that Israel had the right to exist at all.

It simply cannot be disputed that for decades the Palestinian leadership was more interested in there not being a Jewish state than in there being a Palestinian state.

Israel was seen as having demonstrated unmistakably it wanted peace, and the reason it wasn't available, achievable was because Arafat wouldn't accept it.

I don't know where Bush is going - yet. But, Sharon obviously - I wrote somewhere in the last several months, that Sharon has adopted, essentially, the position of the Labor Party: that the Palestinians are here to stay.

The issue of Palestine has been there since more than 60 years. But more important since 1967 when the war was, ended in the defeat of some Arab countries.

It doesn't serve an American interest. It really doesn't really serve Israeli interests - it serves the interests of the political party that's getting the votes of the settlers on the West Bank.

The one thing that I'm absolutely sure about is that the people of Gaza aren't going anywhere. And neither are the people of Israel.