More Quotes
“It’s now official. Presented my credentials @foreignoffice as Israel’s UK Ambassador. Excited to be here.” (Mark Regev via Twitter, 04/04/2016)
“The spread of hatred and the instability that we are witnessing in the Middle East is a danger to the whole world … To Israel’s north, five armies are fighting each other, and none of them are friends of Israel. The Islamic State (ISIS) thugs are carrying out acts of terror across the world, and the whole free world must be united against this threat.” (Israeli President Reuven Rivlin in Australia, speaking alongside the Premier of New South Wales Mike Baird, 03/04/2016)
“I’m sorry to say that some parts of BDS even include factions which are connected to enemies of the State of Israel, and who work in order to eradicate Israel as a Jewish state.” President Rivlin writing in YNet on 28/03/2016.
“My world view is that we need security and they [the Palestinians] know how to provide it…The situation must be eased. I believe in economics. When the economy is good they don’t shoot. Perhaps I’m naive but that’s my view.” (Israeli Finance Minister Moshe Kahlon, Tel Aviv University conference, 30/3/2016)
“There is so much we could do together—in health, distance education, agriculture, aquaculture, information technology, in all fields. Cooperation with China could yield major results and we believe Israel can be the perfect partner.”Benjamin Netanyahu to Chinese Vice Premier Liu Yandong
What happened in Hebron is very serious…There was an initial inquiry on Thursday, and the bottom line that emerged was that this was an incident of a soldier who did something wrong, not of a hero…The person who decided to make this a criminal investigation was the brigade commander, and this was even before the film was released. Since then, an Investigative Military Police investigation has been taking place. It was important for us to say right away how we, the chief of staff, the defense minister and the prime minister, view this incident. We are not like the other [Palestinian] side. All this fiery language and this false information and the manipulations and the attacks on the chief of staff [are out of place]. (Defence Minister Yaalon in the Knesset)