“If I have to reduce all of the laws of war into a single sentence, it is this. You divide the world into two, combatants and noncombatants.”

Israel does not target civilians. It targets the terrorists.

I think that peace will require two states, a Palestinian state that recognizes the Jewish state.

The Obama presidency has two great missions: fixing the economy, and preventing Iran from gaining nuclear weapons.

Israel has always been pro-American. Israel will always be pro-American.

And by the way, a piece of news, Israel is the one country in which everyone is pro-American, opposition and coalition alike.

In my office in Jerusalem, there’s an ancient seal. It’s a signet ring of a Jewish official from the time of the Bible.

This is why, as a prime minister of Israel, I can promise you one more thing: Even if Israel has to stand alone, Israel will stand. But I know that Israel does not stand alone. I know that America stands with Israel.

I don’t want a one-state solution. But I certainly don’t want a zero-state solution, a no-state solution, where Israel’s very existence would be jeopardized. And that’s what the people of Israel overwhelmingly elected me to do.

The Israelis wanted to sabotage the Palestinian – Palestinian reconciliation.

The truth is that if Israel were to put down its arms there would be no more Israel. If the Arabs were to put down their arms there would be no more war.

Those in the international community that refuse to put red lines before Iran don’t have a moral right to place a red light before Israel.

Hamas is responsible and Hamas should held accountable for civilian deaths.

You know, I’m just not going to get into American politics.

And I represent the entire people of Israel who say, ‘Thank you, America.” And we’re friends of America, and we’re the only reliable allies of America in the Middle East.

We will respond with a heavy hand to the brutal murder of Jews who came to pray and were killed by lowly murderers.

The purpose of the Jewish state is to secure the Jewish future. That is why Israel must always have the ability to defend itself, against any threat.

If diving once does not bring you pearls, you need not therefore conclude that the sea is without them.

The physician thinks he is the master, forgetting that God is the Master. God laughs again when two brothers divide their land with a string, saying to each

I see that time divided is never long, and that regularity abridges all things.

The divides are not Islam and western society, the divide is between people who have different values. We must promote connections between people who want to contribute to human values.

Conflict, when used as a device, makes for good television and bad journalism.

A divided heart loses both worlds.

This strange disease of modern life, With its sick hurry, its divided aims.

Poetry is a dividend from what you know and what you are.