The representative of the Jewish Agency [for Palestine] told us yesterday that they were not the attackers, that the Arabs had begun the fighting. We did not deny this. We told the whole world we were going to fight [against an independent Israel].
First of all, Arafat is wrong. Jerusalem is Israel's capital, will never be divided, and will remain the capital of the State of Israel, the capital of the Jewish people, for ever and ever.
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.
When Colonel Gadhafi started using his air force against civilians on the ground, we did not hesitate. Then we supported the resolution of the Security Council, which introduced arms embargo for Libya.
I will be voting to give the President of the United States the authority to use force-- if necessary-- to disarm Saddam Hussein because I believe that a deadly arsenal of weapons of mass destruction in his hands is a real and grave threat to our security.
Jordan has a very important part in any Arab-Israeli peace process.
All of the land of Israel is ours.
Palestinians want Israel to return back into boundaries, the width of which is 12 km., that can be cut into pieces within minutes.
Palestine, as Icelanders see it, includes the Western Wall of the Second Temple, Judaism's holiest site.
Palestine is not a country, so there should be no embassy here.
Israel has better title in the territory of what was Palestine, including the whole of Jerusalem than do Jordan and Egypt
President George H. W. Bush soon launched Operation Desert Shield, sending an enormous contingent of troops to Saudi Arabia. But once there, what exactly were they to do? Contain Iraq? Attack and liberate Kuwait? Drive on to Baghdad and depose Saddam? There was no clear consensus among foreign policy advisers or analysts.
Israeli governments cling to the two-state notion because it seems to reflect the sentiments of the Jewish Israeli majority, and it shields the country from international opprobrium even as it camouflages relentless efforts to expand Israel's territory into the West Bank.
Preemptive war is what Israel did in '67 with Arab armies on its borders.
I'm for Israel's right to exist.
What is true is [Bashar] Assad got rid of his chemical weapons.
The Palestinians need more help from the Arab countries. Since 1967, the world has learned that there is not going to be real progress in the region until Palestine gets something back that they had.
What happened in Syria was, President [Barack] Obama had made a statement announcing what he called his "red line": You can't use chemical weapons, you can do anything else but [use] chemical weapons.
Israel will rise and remain erect until Islam eliminates it, just as it obliterated others before it.
In my first year in Congress, I introduced a War Powers Resolution to end the war in Yemen.
The need to remove Col. Qaddafi should be self-evident.
Israel does not need to resort to provocation [to have a war to bring down Abdul Nasser. Egypt itself supplies the provocations, continuously.
Since its very inception, Israel has been a threat.
Netanyahu supports - and he truly does support - building a Palestinian state within Israel.
Russia would not support anything which would be actually imposed on Syrians.
