Quotes by Ehud Olmert - Page 3

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 / Former Prime Minister Of Israel
Iran
Israel
Tolerate
Weapons
Directly
Effective
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When the President of Iran talks about removing Israel from the face of the Earth and is building nuclear bombs with a range of 3000km, you have to be worried.
Ehud Olmert / Former Prime Minister Of Israel
Bombs
Iran
Israel
Nuclear
President
Range
Worried
Removing
Talks
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I can tell you that if I'd had an opportunity to meet with King Abdullah of the Saudis - which I have not - he would be very surprised to hear what I have to say.
Ehud Olmert / Former Prime Minister Of Israel
Saudi
Surprised
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I never thought that Syria and Israel should engage in a violent confrontation because I don't think that there is any particular interest for any of us to do it.
Ehud Olmert / Former Prime Minister Of Israel
Confrontation
Israel
Syria
Thinking
Violent
Engage
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The Palestinian Authority is ruled by Hamas, an organization committed to vehement anti-Semitism, the glorification of terror, and the total destruction of Israel.
Ehud Olmert / Former Prime Minister Of Israel
Anti Semitism
Authority
Committed
Destruction
Glorification
Hamas
Organization
Palestinian
Terror
Vehement
Total
Ruled
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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 / Former Prime Minister Of Israel
Differences
Israel
Thinking
Basic
Seriously
Thinks
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Throughout the second intifada, America provided unprecedented support for Israel's struggle against Palestinian terrorism and Israel's construction of the security barrier.
Ehud Olmert / Former Prime Minister Of Israel
America
Construction
Palestinian
Security
Struggle
Support
Terrorism
Unprecedented
Against
Barrier
Provided
Second
Throughout
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Israel has said many times - and I also said this to German television in an interview - that we will not be the first country that introduces nuclear weapons to the Middle East.
Ehud Olmert / Former Prime Minister Of Israel
Middle East
Nuclear
Nuclear Weapons
Weapons
German
Be The First
Interview
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For me, Arik Sharon - I remember his courage and inspiration. I want to remember him the way he really was, not as an aging 80-year-old man living in bed helpless and unconscious.
Ehud Olmert / Former Prime Minister Of Israel
Aging
Helpless
Sharon
Unconscious
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The State of Israel, in partnership with Project Better Place and Renault-Nissan, is set to become the first country in the world to initiate the mass deployment of electric vehicles.
Ehud Olmert / Former Prime Minister Of Israel
Better Place
Deployment
Electric
Initiate
Mass
Partnership
World Better Country
Vehicles
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As a citizen of a democratic state, I have always believed that when a prime minister is elected in Israel, even those who voted against him at the polls are obligated to desire his success.
Ehud Olmert / Former Prime Minister Of Israel
Polls
Prime Minister
Citizen
Democratic State
Minister
Obligated
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The history of the Zionist enterprise is well-known: surrounded and outnumbered by hostile neighbours, the nascent Israel was forced to defend itself against invasion and certain destruction.
Ehud Olmert / Former Prime Minister Of Israel
Destruction
Enterprise
Hostile
Invasion
Zionist
Defend
Forced
Nascent
Neighbours
Outnumbered
Surrounded
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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 / Former Prime Minister Of Israel
Morning
Focused
Israel
People
Pity
For The People
Fulfill
Mission
Pat
Shoulder
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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 / Former Prime Minister Of Israel
Borders
Jerusalem
Numbers
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We must give up Arab neighborhoods in Jerusalem and return to the core of the territory that is the State of Israel prior to 1967, with minor corrections dictated by the reality created since then.
Ehud Olmert / Former Prime Minister Of Israel
Core
Corrections
Jerusalem
Return
Territory
Arab
Dictated
Minor
Neighborhoods
Prior
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The dreadful terrorism perpetrated by Palestinian terrorist organizations has affected thousands of Israeli citizens, has destroyed families, and has tried to disrupt the lives of the citizens of Israel.
Ehud Olmert / Former Prime Minister Of Israel
Destroyed
Israeli
Palestinian
Terrorism
Disrupt
Dreadful
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From the end of 2006 until the end of 2008 I think I met with Abu Mazen more often than any Israeli leader has ever met any Arab leader. I met him more than 35 times. They were intense, serious negotiations.
Ehud Olmert / Former Prime Minister Of Israel
Intense
Israeli
Serious
Abu
Arab
Met
Negotiations
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When I addressed international forums as prime minister, the Israeli people expected me to present bold political initiatives that would bring peace - not arguments outlining why achieving peace now is not possible.
Ehud Olmert / Former Prime Minister Of Israel
Israeli
Outlining
Prime Minister
Achieving
Bold
Forum
Initiatives
Minister
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I have reached a conclusion that when we have to make a choice between greater Israel or a Jewish democratic state - and we have to make this choice, it is inevitable - then my choice is a Jewish democratic country.
Ehud Olmert / Former Prime Minister Of Israel
Conclusion
Democratic
Greater
Inevitable
Jewish
Choice
Democratic State
Reached
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Many Palestinians have been living for decades in camps, disconnected from the environment in which they grew up, wallowing in poverty, in neglect, alienation, bitterness, and a deep, unrelenting sense of humiliation.
Ehud Olmert / Former Prime Minister Of Israel
Alienation
Bitterness
Camps
Decades
Disconnected
Humiliation
Neglect
Unrelenting
Palestinians
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I'm entirely free of any suspicions or complaints about the Obama administration. I think the Obama administration is very friendly to Israel. I know a lot of the people in the administration, and they are committed to Israel.
Ehud Olmert / Former Prime Minister Of Israel
Administration
Committed
Complaints
Friendly
Obama
Free People Know
Entirely
Obama Administration
Suspicions
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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.
Ehud Olmert / Former Prime Minister Of Israel
Fighting
Tired
Winning
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As mayor of Jerusalem, I wanted the government to invest the necessary funds in order to unite the city in an effective manner with full rights for the Palestinians living in Jerusalem, so the world would say, 'Okay, it can work.'
Ehud Olmert / Former Prime Minister Of Israel
Jerusalem
Okay
Invest
Effective
Funds
Manner
Mayor
Palestinians
Unite
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There were certain people who were out to get me. I know who those people were. They exist, believe me. They know that I know. They spent millions of dollars in order to try to get rid of me. I'm happy they lost most of their money.
Ehud Olmert / Former Prime Minister Of Israel
Believe
Dollars
Millions
Order
People
Money Believe Me
Exist
Millions Of Dollars
Rid
Spent
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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 / Former Prime Minister Of Israel
Israel
Rights
Struggle
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The values of democracy, brotherhood, and freedom that constitute the building blocks of American society are also shared by Israeli society, together with the faith in man's power and ability to change and influence his surroundings.
Ehud Olmert / Former Prime Minister Of Israel
American Society
Brotherhood
Building Blocks
Influence
Israeli
Surroundings
Blocks
Constitute
Shared
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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 / Former Prime Minister Of Israel
Circumstances
Differences
Emotional
People
Fears
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When it was not very comfortable, politically, for me, I said things which lots of people didn't like, some of them may have liked. I said my beliefs, my truth, and my convictions, and that's how I am going to continue to do in the future.
Ehud Olmert / Former Prime Minister Of Israel
My Truth
Convictions
Beliefs
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I don't want to block every contact with the Palestinians, I think that would be a mistake, and I think that Abu Mazen has an independent status as democratically elected head of the Palestinian people, and it's important if I will talk with him.
Ehud Olmert / Former Prime Minister Of Israel
Block
Independent
Mistake
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As one of the participants in the Aqaba summit, I can testify that Israel fully expected the Palestinian Authority's newly reorganized and trained security agencies to take harsh action against the rejectionists who sought to wreck the peace process.
Ehud Olmert / Former Prime Minister Of Israel
Authority
Harsh
Palestinian
Participants
Summit
Agencies
Newly
Peace Process
Sought
Testify
Trained
Wreck
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Terrorist groups and their extremist state sponsors cannot be fought with kid gloves and flowery words of persuasion. As the U.S. has displayed in Afghanistan and in Iraq, only a vigilant and determined campaign of confrontation can deter and obstruct them.
Ehud Olmert / Former Prime Minister Of Israel
Afghanistan
Confrontation
Extremist
Gloves
Groups
Persuasion
Sponsors
Terrorist
Vigilant
Campaign
Deter
Displayed
Flowery
Fought
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In Israel, we are sorry for the loss of life of Turkish citizens in May 2010, when Israel confronted a provocative flotilla of ships bound for Gaza. I am sure that the proper way to express these sentiments to the Turkish government and the Turkish people can be found.
Ehud Olmert / Former Prime Minister Of Israel
Gaza
Loss
Provocative
Sentiments
Ships
Sorry
Turkish
Bound
Confronted
Proper
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I have found myself under a wave of investigation and criticism from the moment I was elected. Since my first days in the Prime Minister's Office I have had to fight against evil attacks while I have been busy making decisions on crucial matters related to Israel's security and existence.
Ehud Olmert / Former Prime Minister Of Israel
Busy
Criticism
Evil
Existence
Investigation
Making Decisions
Office
Related
Security
Wave
Decisions
Against
Since
Attacks
Days
Fight
Elected
Matters
Minister
Moment
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Israel stands proudly at the forefront of international achievement. The world's leading corporations - Google, Intel and Motorola, to name but a few - maintain research and development facilities here, and our technology start-ups continue to be acquired by the likes of AOL, eBay and IBM.
Ehud Olmert / Former Prime Minister Of Israel
Achievement
Corporations
Ebay
Ibm
Likes
Aol
Facilities
Forefront
Intel
Maintain
Proudly
Stands
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The fundamental interest - long-range strategic interest - of the state of Israel is that we will have the international bodies and primarily the United Nations recognize the two-state solution, so that there will never be any doubt as to the right of Israel to have its own Jewish independent state.
Ehud Olmert / Former Prime Minister Of Israel
Strategic
United Nations
Jewish
Bodies
Fundamental
Primarily
Solution
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The Palestinians are facing a historic junction at which they will have to decide whether they want to remain stuck in a corner of extreme fundamentalism, which will cut them off from the entire world, or whether they are ready to take the necessary steps. My role is to assist in building this process.
Ehud Olmert / Former Prime Minister Of Israel
Cutting
Fundamentalism
Historic
Junction
Roles
Steps
Stuck
World
World Process Will
Extreme
Assist
Corner
Entire World
Facing
Palestinians
Remain
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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.
Ehud Olmert / Former Prime Minister Of Israel
Britain
China
Country
Doubt
Extremist
France
Fundamentalist
Germany
Great Britain
Iran
Islamic
Nations
Nuclear
Possessing
Russia
Weapons
Western
Western World
Great Government World
Amongst
Government Great World
Mentioned
One Country
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I want to separate from the Palestinians. I want them to have their independent, separate state on a contiguous territory, and I want Israel to exist, of course, as a Jewish state in its own territory, as an independent state in its own territory. The Palestinian state, the Israeli state, separate. This is my dream.
Ehud Olmert / Former Prime Minister Of Israel
Israeli
Palestinian
Territory
Jewish
Jewish State
Palestinian State
Separate
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When public figures write memoirs, there is always some indecision regarding how much they want to write of things as they were and how much they want to cut corners to avoid riling up others. I decided to write my memoirs exactly as they were, and I will not digress - not when things are ill at ease and not when they are comfortable.
Ehud Olmert / Former Prime Minister Of Israel
Comfortable
Corners
Decided
Ease
Figures
Ill
Indecision
Public Figures
Avoid
Always Will Things
Cut
Exactly
How Much
Memoirs
Regarding
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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 / Former Prime Minister Of Israel
Country
Democratic
Despite
Economy
Global Economy
Growing Up
Israel
Optimist
Stable
Successful
Years Ago
Countries
Global
Last Few Years
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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.
Ehud Olmert / Former Prime Minister Of Israel
Believe
Land
Years
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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 / Former Prime Minister Of Israel
Believe
Destiny
Reality
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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 / Former Prime Minister Of Israel
Couple
Fire
Mean
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