When there’s a status quo, usually what shakes everybody up is some sort of military confrontation, at which point we all come running and screaming to pick up the pieces.
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Is Israel going to continue to be “Fortress Israel”? Or, as we all hope, become accepted into the neighborhood, which I believe is the only way we can move forward in harmony.
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If you believe that the killing of innocent people is right, then you are not part of my future.
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We have peace with Israel. We’re actually the last man standing. So there is going to be immense pressure and people asking,
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If you have a government that is elected, they need to do the hard work — because if they don’t, they won’t be around the next time the ballot box is open.
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You’re always going to have extremists in every religion.
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I think the debate in our society now is that people have to agree on zero-tolerance to terrorism.
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I think it’s almost impossible for any expert to predict for the rapid changes we see in the Middle East. They are rapid and they will continue for quite a while.
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Our response has been, “Well, let’s then make an effort to get the Israelis and the Palestinians to sit around the table.” That hasn’t happened. So we only have ourselves to blame for this crisis.
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The Middle East has the highest unemployment percentage of any region in the world we have the largest youth cohort of history coming into the market place t
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We have to always hope in humanity that people will make the right choices.
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Political development should start at the grassroots.
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There are going to be a lot of questions, not just in my country, but across the Middle East.
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We have no right to dictate, through irresponsible action or narrow-mindedness, the future of our children, and our children’s children. There has been enough destruction, enough death, enough waste.
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I’m just very wary that once you start military operations in any country, it’s very difficult to predict what the outcome is.
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It is always dangerous to underestimate anybody.
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