#israel

Overwhelmingly, Israel's political and military establishment want the rest of the world to act diplomatically or otherwise to stop Iran. But if that doesn't happen, then the impulse toward the use of force will become quite strong. ↗

— Dennis Ross

#become #establishment #force #happen #impulse

You don't have any communication between the Israelis and the Iranians. You have all sorts of local triggers for conflict. Having countries act on a hair trigger - where they can't afford to be second to strike - the potential for a miscalculation or a nuclear war through inadvertence is simply too high. ↗

— Dennis Ross

#afford #any #between #communication #conflict

We've always had a dual role in the region - friend of Israel, and honest broker. We've given up the honest broker role completely. ↗

— Chris Matthews

#broker #completely #dual #friend #given

There are plenty of opportunities for common grounds that we need to explore and strengthen. The Hispanic community has a strong affinity for our relationship with Israel. ↗

— Robert Menendez

#common #community #explore #grounds #hispanic

It's not an Israeli model, it's a TSA, screwed-up model. It should actually be the person who's looking at the ticket and talking to the individual. Instead, they've hired people to stand around and observe, which is a bastardization of what should be done. ↗

— John Mica

#around #done #hired #individual #instead

Other countries, such as Israel, successfully employ behavior detection techniques at their airports, but the bloated, ineffective bureaucracy of TSA has produced another security failure for U.S. transportation systems. ↗

— John Mica

#behavior #bloated #bureaucracy #countries #detection

However, there is no legal and legitimate state called Israel. ↗

— Hassan Nasrallah

#however #israel #legal #legitimate #state

That is why if Lebanon concludes a peace agreement with Israel and brings that accord to the Parliament our deputies will reject it; Hezbollah refuses any conciliation with Israel in principle. ↗

— Hassan Nasrallah

#agreement #any #brings #conciliation #concludes

You can look at the West Bank. Cities are like prisons. They can be closed quickly by the Israeli forces, and everything stops in these cities. This is the result of Oslo. ↗

— Hassan Nasrallah

#cities #closed #everything #forces #israeli

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

— Benjamin Netanyahu

#been #israel #pro-american #will