Ehud Olmert Quotes

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Israeli lives are worth more than Palestinian ones.

Ehud Olmert

Israel, Palestinian, Israeli

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If the day comes when the two-state solution collapses, and we face a South African-style struggle for equal voting rights (also for the Palestinians in the territories), then, as soon as that happens, the State of Israel is finished.

Ehud Olmert

Struggle, Rights, Israel

"State of Israel could disappear, warns Olmert" by Mark Tran, www.theguardian.com. November 29, 2007.

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The formula for the parameters of a unilateral solution are: To maximize the number of Jews; to minimize the number of Palestinians; not to withdraw to the 1967 border and not to divide Jerusalem.

Ehud Olmert

Numbers, Borders, Jerusalem

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Leadership is tested not by one's capacity to survive politically but by the ability to make tough decisions in trying times.

Ehud Olmert

Leadership, Decision, Trying

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We are tired of fighting, we are tired of being courageous, we are tired of winning, we are tired of defeating our enemies, we want that we will be able to live in an entirely different environment of relations with our enemies.

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Tired, Fighting, Winning

"Ehud Olmert: a Profile in Leadership" by Arianna Huffington, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 5, 2006.

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When you fight for the impossible, sometimes you lose everything.

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Fighting, Impossible, Sometimes

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Disengagement is a response to certain demographic realities, .. Within a few years, due to the higher Arab birth rate, Jews will become a minority in the area between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea. I don't want [Israel] to be South Africa because we don't believe in apartheid. We simply have to separate from the Palestinians so that we can control our own destinies.

Ehud Olmert

Believe, Reality, Destiny

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For thousands of years, we Jews have been nourished and sustained by a yearning for our historic land. I, like many others, was raised with a deep conviction that the day would never come when we would have to relinquish parts of the land of our forefathers. I believed and to this day still believe in our people's eternal and historic right to this entire land.

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Believe, Years, Land

Ehud Olmert's address to the Congress in Capitol Hill, Washington, D.C., www.washingtonpost.com. May 24, 2006.

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We can never totally return to the indefensible pre-1967 borders, ... We simply cannot afford to make Israel 14.48 km (9 miles) wide again at its center. We can't allow the Palestinians to be a couple of [miles] from [Tel Aviv's] Ben-Gurion Airport in the age of shoulder-fire missiles with the capacity to shoot down jumbo jets. But that doesn't mean we must remain in every corner of the West Bank or in Gaza, where fewer than 10,000 Jews, living next to 1.3 million Palestinians, have been protected by twice as many soldiers.

Ehud Olmert

Couple, Mean, Fire

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For me to propose a division of Jerusalem was really terrible. I did it because I reached a conclusion that without which there will not be peace.

Ehud Olmert

Division, Jerusalem, Terrible

"Former Israeli PM looks at Iran crisis". www.cnn.com. May 5, 2012.

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There is a Western world. There is America. There is Great Britain and Germany and France and Russia and China and other nations. I doubt that there is one country amongst those I mentioned which has a desire to see Iran, with its fundamentalist, Islamic, extremist government, possessing nuclear weapons.

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Country, Islamic, Russia

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Israel always has to be in a position to defend itself against any adversary and against any threat of any kind.

Ehud Olmert

Israel, Kind, Threat

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Who thinks seriously that if we sit on another hilltop, on another hundred meters, that this is what will make the difference for the state of Israel's basic security?

Ehud Olmert

Thinking, Israel, Differences

"Olmert Says Israel Should Pull Out of West Bank" by Laura Rozen, www.motherjones.com. September 29, 2008.

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I'm not in power, but my ideas are in power. And my ideas will prevail.

Ehud Olmert

Ideas

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The military operation in Lebanon was the most successful military operation in recent Israeli history. Many in Israel don't recognise that.

Ehud Olmert

Military, Successful, Israel

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Iran is an anti-Semitic, terrorist government.

Ehud Olmert

Government, Iran, Terrorist

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Look, miracles in the Middle East are a reality.

Ehud Olmert

Reality, Miracle, Middle East

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Israel will not tolerate a situation in which Iran has effective control of non-conventional weapons that can be used directly against the state of Israel.

Ehud Olmert

Israel, Iran, Weapons

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Growing up in Israel, how can I not be an optimist? When you remember what Israel was 50 years ago and you see Israel now, one of the most successful countries in the world, stable, democratic, with an enormously stable economy despite everything that has happened in the global economy in the last few years, how can I not be an optimist?

Ehud Olmert

Country, Growing Up, Successful

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A prime minister must not promise things that can't be fulfilled.

Ehud Olmert

Promise, Prime, Ministers

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Political leaders can help change the psychological climate which affects the quality of relationships among people.

Ehud Olmert

People, Leader, Political

"After the flood" by Brian Keenan, www.theguardian.com. July 21, 2006.

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I am focused on what needs to be done for the people of Israel. Period. I do not pity myself and I do not pat myself on the shoulder. I get up in the morning full of energy to fulfill my mission.

Ehud Olmert

Morning, Israel, People

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There is nothing that I'd love to do more than negotiate with Palestinians. This is my desire. This is my dream. This is my mission.

Ehud Olmert

Dream, Desire, Missions

"Late Edition With Wolf Blitzer", www.cnn.com. May 21, 2006.

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I know the war in Iraq is controversial in the States, but for us in the Middle East it has made a great and significant impact.

Ehud Olmert

War, Iraq, Impact

"'Israel Should Not Be on the Forefront of a War Against Iran'". Interview with Romesh Ratnesar, content.time.com. April 9, 2006.

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How are fears born? They are born because of differences in tradition and history; they are born because of differences in emotional, political and national circumstances. Because of such differences, people fear they cannot live together.

Ehud Olmert

Emotional, Differences, People

"After the flood" by Brian Keenan, www.theguardian.com. July 21, 2006.

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Born: September 30, 1945
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