Ehud Barak Quotes

• But I should tell you honestly that this administration under President Obama is doing in regard to our security more than anything that I can remember in the past.

  Ehud Barak

  Past, President, Administration

  "Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak: Bulgaria attack on Israelis will be avenged". "The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer", cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com. July 30, 2012.

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• If I were a Palestinian of the right age, I'd eventually join one of the terrorist organizations.

  Ehud Barak

  Organization, Age, Terrorist

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• Until the wolf shall lay with lamb, we'd better be the wolves.

  Ehud Barak

  Lambs, Lays

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• The Palestinians are like crocodiles, the more you give them meat, they want more.

  Ehud Barak

  Israel, Giving, Cleansing

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• I remember my days as a graduate student at Stanford, within any leading university, a very active Israeli support, for Israel, Jews fighting for the cause of Israel. Now you find Israelis, former Israelis, and Arabs, and Jews, fighting for the Palestinian cause. We are somehow losing the moral high ground, and I keep telling our people it's great to deal with propaganda, to activate many ways, to deploy PR firms all around the world.

  Ehud Barak

  Fighting, People, Support

  Source: www.politico.com

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• If we thought that instead of 200 Palestinian fatalities, 2,000 dead would put an end to the fighting at a stroke, we would use much more force.

  Ehud Barak

  Fighting, Israel, Use

  "German man killed in renewed Israeli assault". www.theguardian.com. November 16, 2000.

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• There is a thin line between peace of the brave and peace of the hostage... between compromise - even calculated risk - and irresponsibility and capitulation.

  Ehud Barak

  Brave, Risk, Lines

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• Politics is not about schmoozing, it's about boxing. And you have to enter the arena; you have to come close enough that your face would ready the face of the other guy; and the price is that he can reach your face.

  Ehud Barak

  Boxing, Guy, Enough

  Source: www.politico.com

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• The Israel legendary foreign minister, Abba Eban, used to say that the Palestinians had never missed an opportunity to miss an opportunity.

  Ehud Barak

  Opportunity, Missing, Legendary

  Source: www.politico.com

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• We are talking about a major change in reality that has to come about, ... We are not idiots. If it turns out that this situation where there is no partner (in peace) remains the same, then we will know what to do.

  Ehud Barak

  Reality, Talking, Idiot

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• We want peace, but not at any price.

  Ehud Barak

  Want

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• Geopolitics needs not just rhetoric, not just certain instincts, not just political skillful manipulation; it needs vision and what the Germans call erdung - you have to be connected to the ground always. You cannot float on your wishful thinking and hope that some miracles will become reality.

  Ehud Barak

  Reality, Thinking, Miracle

  Source: www.politico.com

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• I don't do anything to impress anyone, quite successfully I can tell you.

  Ehud Barak

  Impress, I Can

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• Israel is surrounded by a raging sea, parts of which are not willing to accept us as a partner with equal rights among the nations. The reality we live in presents us with profound challenges, the need to effectively use all of our resources, and the need to prepare for any development, near or far. The IDF will protect the security and the future of the state. The IDF will provide the response when the order is given.

  Ehud Barak

  Reality, Rights, Israel

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• The Left is acting like a young child, saying 'I want peace'... A child says 'I want candy right away,' an adult takes all of the factors into account and understands who he's dealing with.

  Ehud Barak

  Children, Acting, Adults

  "Barak Fights Labor MKs over Goldstone", by Maayana Miskin, www.israelnationalnews.com. October 26, 2009.

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• The Arab leaders, they don't have a love affair with the Palestinians or the Palestinian leadership, but the publics have, and they cannot feel safe in their own chairs if they accept Israel, the mistress, so to speak, to acknowledge her as a main, the Unter den Linden, the main road, as long as we are not moving forward with the Palestinians.

  Ehud Barak

  Moving, Long, Leader

  Source: www.politico.com

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• At this place, Jews have prayed throughout the generations, and it is fitting that the message of brotherhood should go out from here.

  Ehud Barak

  Brotherhood, Generations, Messages

  "Barak stresses unity, faces reality". www.cnn.com. May 18, 1999.

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• I'm such a failed politician that all of my rivals have disappeared, on both sides.

  Ehud Barak

  Rivals, Sides, Politician

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• In Israel, generally speaking, politics is much more familiar than any other place. We all know each other.

  Ehud Barak

  Israel, Familiar, Knows

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• Iran poses the most serious long-term threat to regional stability.

  Ehud Barak

  Iran, Long, Serious

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• Since the Six-Day War, the whole world, which is the real arena of battle between us and the Palestinians, believes that Israel is right in regard to procedure, namely problems and disputes should be solved around the negotiating table.

  Ehud Barak

  Real, War, Believe

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• I compare the Middle East to a big condominium, we called shared residence? Well, you have many families that you don't like; some of them are bad families. But, unlike in a condominium, you are doomed to be with your neighbors; a person cannot choose his parents, and a nation cannot choose its neighbors, they were both there. One of them which happened to be quite problematic, short of perfect, called the Palestinians. So we have problems with them.

  Ehud Barak

  Perfect, Parent, Problem

  Source: www.politico.com

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• But at the end of the day, when the military command looks up, it sees us — the minister of defense and the prime minister. When we look up, we see nothing but the sky above us.

  Ehud Barak

  Military, Sky, The End Of The Day

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• I can tell you I also smoked cigars 10 years before, and the watch, which is a Patek Philippe - it was my former wife who bought it for me as a gift when I completed my military service. What is all of this about anyway? I'm no wealthier than Bibi Netanyahu or Arik Sharon. I don't feel that I'm more hedonistic than Ehud Olmert, or Yitzhak Rabin or Shimon Peres.

  Ehud Barak

  Military, Years, Wife

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• I want to study, to write to live and have a good time.

  Ehud Barak

  Writing, Want, Good Times

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