Ehud Olmert Quotes
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The direction is clear: We are headed toward a separation from the Palestinians. We are headed toward the determination of a permanent border for the state of Israel. We will protect Jerusalem's unity. We will hold onto the main settlement blocs. But the borders we have in mind are not those Israel has today.
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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.
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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.
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We're under pressure because we haven't reached the point where we can form a stable government yet.
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I don't know that there is one serious American representative that will advise Israel to sit with a terrorist government and negotiate with them.
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Iran is an anti-Semitic, terrorist government.
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I'm saying those things here and now out of a belief in the State of Israel's immense power and the immeasurable courage of its soldiers, military leaders, and security forces to hit any enemy and defeat any terrorist. Out of this sense of strength we must act with all our power in order to create hope for a different life for our young generation and that of our Palestinian neighbors.
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There will be no reverse in this decision, ... The Orient House has become a symbol of provocations, of almost endless activities against the law of Israel and against the status of Israel in the united city of Jerusalem and as such it had to be closed.
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A prime minister must not promise things that can't be fulfilled.
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Peace is important for Israel.
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My doctors say I am very healthy.
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When you fight for the impossible, sometimes you lose everything.
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The fence will continue being built and we will go on taking care of the security of Israel's citizens.
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Otherwise there can be no progress with an administration in which there are terrorist organizations as members.
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Bibi Netanyahu has set himself up as the head of the extreme right wing.
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I was not born to be prime minister, and I'm not going to stay here until the end of my life. I'm too young for that.
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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?
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I sometimes feel tired. But there are so many reasons for being tired.
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We will use an iron fist against any attempt to renew terror activity anywhere.
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Iran is a major threat to the well-being of Europe and America just as much as it is for the state of Israel.
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Today, Israeli democracy has spoken its piece, in a loud and clear voice.
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If the Palestinians agree to act soon, we will sit at the negotiating table in order to create a new reality ... . If they do not, Israel will take its fate into its own hands.
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In the coming period, we will move to set the final borders of the state of Israel, a Jewish state with a Jewish majority. We will try to achieve this in an agreement with the Palestinians.
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The new government will face complex challenges ... I believe it will be sworn in.