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Benjamin Netanyahu

Inserted 16 hours ago

“The idea that we will stop the war before achieving all its objectives is out of the question. We will enter Rafah and we will eliminate the Hamas battalions there - with or without a deal, in order to achieve the total victory.”

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Prime Minister of Israel

30 Apr 2024 3 2

Nour Odeh

Inserted 16 hours ago

“For a while, there was a lot of cautious optimism up until this morning, and then the prime minister announced he will order an invasion of Rafah with or without a deal - in essence trampling all of these ceasefire talks. This is what the families of the captives had feared. This is what the negotiators feared. Netanyahu's comments came after he held meetings with the most right-wing members of his coalition government, including Itamar Ben-Gvir. It's interesting, every time Blinken comes to the region - catching the tailwind of some optimism - something like this happens, and he ends up going home with nothing to show for all this political momentum.”

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Palestinian political analyst based in Ramallah

30 Apr 2024 6 2

Yair Lapid

Inserted 2 days ago

“This government has to choose: return the abductees alive, or Ben Gvir and Smotrich, relations with the Americans or Ben Gvir and Smotrich, the Saudi deal or Ben Gvir and Smotrich, Israel's security or Ben Gvir and Smotrich.”

Aje

Israeli politician and former prime minister

28 Apr 2024 5 6

Thomas Friedman

Inserted 3 days ago

“But revenge is not a strategy. It is pure insanity that Israel is now more than six months into this war and the Israeli military leadership - and virtually the entire political class - has allowed Netanyahu to continue to pursue a 'total victory' there, including probably soon plunging deep into Rafah, without any exit plan or Arab partner lined up to step in once the war ends. If Israel ends up with an indefinite occupation of both Gaza and the West Bank, it would be a toxic military, economic and moral overstretch that would delight Israel's most dangerous foe, Iran, and repel all its allies in the West and the Arab world.”

Nytimes

New York Times foreign affairs Opinion columnist

26 Apr 2024 10 2

Amichai Chikli

Inserted 6 days ago

“The US is not projecting strength under [Biden's] leadership, and it's harming Israel and other countries. He said 'Don't' at the start of the war - to Hezbollah, as well as Iran. We saw the result. If I were an American citizen with the right to vote, I'd vote for Trump and Republicans.”

Aje

Minister of Diaspora Affairs of Israel

24 Apr 2024 8 2

Ali Vaez

Inserted 1 week ago

“We are in a situation where basically everybody can claim victory. Iran can say that it took revenge, Israel can say it defeated the Iranian attack and the United States can say it successfully deterred Iran and defended Israel. If we get into another round of tit for tat, it can easily spiral out of control, not just for Iran and Israel, but for the rest of the region and the entire world.”

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Iran director of the International Crisis Group

17 Apr 2024 3 1

Peter Ricketts

Inserted 2 weeks ago

“Netanyahu must have calculated when he hit the Iranian Consulate in Damascus that the Iranians would retaliate, and that this would swing the Americans and their Western allies behind Israel. And that's worked, remarkably well. It's all gain for Netanyahu if he has the wisdom to take the win, or at least to retaliate in a limited way.”

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Former U.K. national security adviser

16 Apr 2024 3 2

Daniel Levy

Inserted 2 weeks ago

“There's been this united public response defending Israel on Iran, with strong private messaging to Israel, 'Don't you dare'. While on Gaza, there's a lot of public hand-wringing but a lack of will to be tough in private. Gaza doesn't directly pull the United States into a war. So, they still believe they can tiptoe through the raindrops.”

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President of the U.S./Middle East Project and former Israeli peace negotiator

16 Apr 2024 3 2

Vali R. Nasr

Inserted 2 weeks ago

“If every time Israel decides to punish Iran, it creates a massive tumult in Washington and London, these countries are going to pressure Israel. There's going to be a major international effort to build cordons around Israel's behavior toward Iran.”

Nytimes

Professor at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies

16 Apr 2024 1 2

Herzi Halevi

Inserted 2 weeks ago

“Iran's attack on the country will be met with a response. When we look ahead, we consider our steps. The launch of so many cruise missiles and drones into Israeli territory will be met with a response.”

Aje

Israeli armed forces chief

15 Apr 2024 2 1

Jamal Rushdi

Inserted 2 weeks ago

“War crimes committed by the Israeli occupation on a daily basis in Gaza should not cover up what is happening in the West Bank. The imposition of sanctions by some countries on a number of colonists represents a small, late step that is insufficient to halt such attacks.”

Aje

Spokesperson for the Arab League Council’s Secretary-General

15 Apr 2024 6 2

Itamar Ben-Gvir

Inserted 2 weeks ago

“Defence Minister Gallant's decision to evacuate and destroy buildings on the Gal Yosef farm, where 14-year old Benjamin Achimeir was murdered, even during the week of shiva [mourning], represents terrible obtuseness, moral confusion, security folly and a violation of the dignity of the dead. Instead of establishing and approving more farms and expanding Jewish settlements, we surrender to the enemy. The time has come for the prime minister to consider replacing Minister Gallant.”

Aje

Minister of National Security of Israel

15 Apr 2024 4 1

Nader Hashemi

Inserted 2 weeks ago

“President Biden is rallying the G7 who will issue a condemnatory statement of Iran along these lines. In the Global South the response will be more measured. There will be calls for restraint, de-escalation and diplomacy without directly blaming Iran or Israel. Arab and Muslim public opinion will note how many Arab states deployed military resources to protect Israel while doing the opposite in the context of the mass starvation and genocide in Gaza.”

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Associate professor of Middle East and Islamic politics at Georgetown University

14 Apr 2024 8 1

Marwan Bishara

Inserted 2 weeks ago

“Prime Minister Netanyahu is the architect of the relationship with the United States, and he's the architect of his coalition government. He is manipulating both of them. As far as he's concerned, he's looking for his best options. I think he is already discussing and negotiating with President Biden about the price for not responding to Iran that some might expect or his ministers want. Now the price could be a number of things: one, more American support. More unconditionality of American support - definitely clearing criticism of Israel's indiscriminately bombing Gaza and so forth. Netanyahu will probably get more money, he will get more aid, he will get more American support.”

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Senior political analyst at Al Jazeera

14 Apr 2024 5 4

Alon Liel

Inserted 2 weeks ago

“We already know the war cabinet has not approved a response and the Americans had a big share in it, so it looks as if Israel won't respond for a while and we'll go back to our business in Gaza. Prime Minister Netanyahu still needs to resolve two things in Gaza: the release of captives and the Hamas battalions. I think Netanyahu might use this wave of support for Israel during the Iranian attack to go down to Rafah. But he cannot do it without fully coordinating with the Americans. This is the issue that is really bothering him, because without going back to Rafah he cannot describe the war as a victory.”

Aje

Former director of Israel’s foreign ministry

14 Apr 2024 5 3

Daniel Hagari

Inserted 2 weeks ago

“Israel's military intercepted 99 percent of the aerial threats launched at it on Saturday. The Nevatim air force base in the Negev desert in southern Israel suffered only light damage and is functioning. Iran thought it would paralyze the base. It failed.”

Nytimes

Chief Israeli military spokesperson

14 Apr 2024 4 1

Daniel Hagari

Inserted 2 weeks ago

“A number of Iranian missiles fell inside Israeli territory, causing minor damage to a military base with no casualties. Only one little girl has been hurt, and we hope she will be well.”

Aje

Chief Israeli military spokesperson

14 Apr 2024 3 2

Dave Des Roches

Inserted 2 weeks ago

“It seems that Iranian leaders are determined to take action, but also seen to take action. What that indicates to me is that there are considerations of pride and prestige that are divorced from strategy and tactical utility that may indicate a more dangerous era than we thought. Iran may not have really counted the possibility its attack on Israel could take the focus off Gaza. The pressure that had been building on Israel to restrain from further actions in Gaza, that may have been lifted as a result of this attack.”

Aje

Associate Professor at the National Defense University in Washington DC

13 Apr 2024 3 2

Jeremy Konyndyk

Inserted 3 weeks ago

“Without a ceasefire, it will not be possible for aid groups to put together the kind of anti-famine operation that Gaza now requires. You can't do that solely off the backs of trucks. You need the space to operate safely, to run malnutrition treatment centres, to restore the health system, to rebuild water systems and to distribute food at large scale.”

Aje

President of Refugees International

05 Apr 2024 6 3

Erin Gore

Inserted 3 weeks ago

“Their apologies for the outrageous killing of our colleagues represent cold comfort. It's cold comfort for the victims' families and WCK's global family. Israel needs to take concrete steps to assure the safety of humanitarian aid workers. Our operations remain suspended.”

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World Central Kitchen’s chief executive

05 Apr 2024 3 1

Guy Goodwin-Gill

Inserted 3 weeks ago

“There is a serious risk of genocide, as the International Court of Justice has found. If the UK, with that knowledge in mind, carries on exporting arms to Israel, there is a risk that those arms will be used in the conduct of aggressive activities and in the conduct of genocide. It's the risk that is important and the risk must be taken into account now.”

Aje

Emeritus professor for international refugee law at the University of Oxford

04 Apr 2024 3 3

Bassam Abu Abdallah

Inserted 4 weeks ago

“Before Monday there were rules of engagement, but now it's an all-out war between Israel and the resistance axis. It is now clear that the trend is towards escalation. We could start to see increased attacks against US bases in Syria, Iraq or elsewhere.”

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Director of the Damascus Centre for Strategic Research

02 Apr 2024 7 1

Ali Vaez

Inserted 4 weeks ago

“By targeting an Iranian diplomatic facility, Israel has crossed a line. Iran's dilemma is that failure to respond could signal weakness to Israel, but retaliation risks a harsher US or Israeli action.”

Aje

International Crisis Group’s Iran Project Director and Senior Adviser to the President

02 Apr 2024 2 1

Benjamin Netanyahu

Inserted 4 weeks ago

“Calls for elections now during the war, a moment before victory, will paralyze Israel for at least six months; in my estimate, for eight months. They will paralyze the negotiations for the release of our hostages and in the end will lead to ending the war before achieving its goals, and the first to commend this will be Hamas, and that says it all.”

Nytimes

Prime Minister of Israel

31 Mar 2024 3 3

Bernie Sanders

Inserted 1 month ago

“The US cannot beg Netanyahu to stop bombing civilians one day and the next send him thousands more 2,000-pound bombs that can level entire city blocks. We must end our complicity: No more bombs to Israel.”

Aljazeera

Vermont Senator

29 Mar 2024 3 3

Benjamin Netanyahu

Inserted 1 month ago

“I thought the US decision in the Security Council was a very, very bad move. The worst part about it was that it encouraged Hamas to take a hard line and to believe that international pressure will prevent Israel from freeing the hostages and destroying Hamas. It [the cancellation of a planned visit to Washington by Israeli top aides] was a message first and foremost to Hamas: 'Don't bet on this pressure, it's not going to work'. I hope they got the message.”

Aje

Prime Minister of Israel

27 Mar 2024 5 3

James Bays

Inserted 1 month ago

“I think what is slowly developing is global isolation and condemnation for Israel, it's developing into a situation where it could become a pariah state. Go back to apartheid in South Africa - that country was eventually suspended from the United Nations, for 20 years it wasn't even let to take part in UN activities. And I think it's that sort of isolation and global disdain that Israel might be facing, and it's exactly that that this weekend the US Secretary of State Antony Blinken warned Prime Minister Netanyahu of when he talked about the possible Rafah offensive.”

Aje

Al Jazeera’s diplomatic editor

26 Mar 2024 5 2

Bezalel Smotrich

Inserted 1 month ago

“Our relationship with the US has always been one of partners, but not of a patron state. This is not the first time that an Israeli government has been required to make decisions contrary to the US government's position. Israel will not stop its war on Gaza until Hamas is destroyed and all of its captives held there are returned.”

Aje

Finance Minister of Israel

25 Mar 2024 6 3

Gilad Erdan

Inserted 1 month ago

“It is harmful to these efforts because it gives Hamas terrorists hope to get a ceasefire without releasing the hostages. All members of the council … should have voted against this shameless resolution. The resolution says that taking civilians is in violation of international law. Yet on the other hand, despite the fact that you know Hamas won't listen to your calls and release the hostages, you demand a ceasefire. Take a moment and think about this moral contradiction.”

Aje

Israel Ambassador to the United Nations

25 Mar 2024 3 2

Benjamin Netanyahu

Inserted 1 month ago

“I told him [Antony Blinken] that I hope we will do it with the support of the US, but if we have to - we will do it alone [sending troops into the southern Gaza city of Rafah].”

Aljazeera

Prime Minister of Israel

22 Mar 2024 5 2

Carolyn Rodrigues-Birkett

Inserted 1 month ago

“To whom is the demand for compliance with obligations under international law [addressed to?] … Who is preventing the use of all available routes to the Gaza Strip? Who does not respect deconfliction and notification mechanisms? We know the answers to these questions … Why then were the relevant demands in this resolution not clearly addressed to the occupying power, not even once?”

Aje

Permanent Representative of Guyana to the United Nations

22 Mar 2024 4 2

Josep Borrell

Inserted 1 month ago

“Today the council goes much further than in previous months. European leaders are asking for a sustainable ceasefire, certainly asking also for the freedom of hostages, but showing a strong concern for the situation of the people in Gaza, which is unacceptable. They are starving. So I hope that the council will send a strong message to Israel: stop blocking, stop preventing the food to come into Gaza and take care of the civilians. Certainly Israel has the right to defend, [but] not to revenge.”

Aje

EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy

21 Mar 2024 3 3

Marwan Bishara

Inserted 1 month ago

“Israel's latest attack on al-Shifa Hospital has shown that, rather than eliminating Hamas, Israel is attempting to eliminate anything that walks or breathes in Gaza. Palestinians have been displaced from their homes to schools, hospitals and other protected facilities that have nonetheless come under attack. What's more no distinction is being made between the Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas, and the government officers simply carrying out their duties. Anyone who works for a ministry under Hamas and their relatives is considered punishable by killing. As long as the US and other allies, who have warned against a military operation in Rafah, take no action to back their words, Israel will do as it pleases. In a change of tactic, the US is now being used as a scapegoat by Netanyahu for any future failures in eliminating Hamas in Gaza. “America is now being blamed for not committing to Israel's self-defence [in Rafah] and causing it to fail.”

Aje

Senior political analyst at Al Jazeera

20 Mar 2024 5 4

Benjamin Netanyahu

Inserted 1 month ago

“We will operate in Rafah. This will take several weeks, and it will happen.”

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Prime Minister of Israel

17 Mar 2024 2 1

Chuck Schumer

Inserted 1 month ago

“At this critical juncture, I believe a new election is the only way to allow for a healthy and open decision-making process about the future of Israel, at a time when so many Israelis have lost their confidence in the vision and direction of their government. Netanyahu surrounded himself with far-right ministers and has been too willing to tolerate the civilian toll in Gaza, which is pushing support for Israel worldwide to historic lows. Israel cannot survive if it becomes a pariah.”

Aje

New York’s Senator and the Senate Majority Leader

14 Mar 2024 3 3

Marwan Bishara

Inserted 1 month ago

“There is definitely increasing heat between the prime minister and the president. But I think Biden is underlining a change of tone, not a change of policy. And that explains a bit why he sounds as if he's speaking from both sides of his mouth. On one hand, he talks about red lines, and on the other hand, he talks about continuing basically unconditional support. Biden administration made the mistake of making US support for Israel unconditional. But for more than five months now, Israel has gotten the support, the arms, and the money - but it has rejected the advice of the American president, and that's why he's getting a bit frustrated with the Israeli prime minister because he does not want to see - as he said - another 30,000 dead people in Gaza.”

Aje

Senior political analyst at Al Jazeera

11 Mar 2024 4 2

Philippe Lazzarini

Inserted 1 month ago

“Medical scissors are now added to a long list of banned items the Israeli Authorities classify as 'for dual use'. The list includes basic and lifesaving items: from anesthetics, solar lights, oxygen cylinders and ventilators, to water cleaning tablets, cancer medicines and maternity kits.”

Aje

Head of the U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees UNRWA

11 Mar 2024 3 1

Walid Habas

Inserted 1 month ago

“The families of the Israeli prisoners are not stupid. They know the Israeli army directly participated in operations that killed more than 10 captives. It also failed to free any of them, except for two who were not in the possession of resistance groups in exchange for money. Protests within Israeli society have escalated against the Netanyahu government due to its inability to return the captives; however, they are not enough to threaten the coalition government or overthrow it. However, if the protests are bolstered by the larger movement that was igniting the streets of Israel in the spring and summer of 2023, the equation may change.”

Aje

Researcher at the Palestinian Forum for Israeli Studies – Madar

11 Mar 2024 3 1

Volker Türk

Inserted 1 month ago

“The West Bank is already in crisis. Yet settler violence and settlement-related violations have reached shocking new levels, and risk eliminating any practical possibility of establishing a viable Palestinian state.”

Aje

UN high commissioner for human rights

08 Mar 2024 3 2

Benjamin Netanyahu

Inserted 1 month ago

“There is international pressure and it's growing, but particularly when the international pressure rises, we must close ranks, we need to stand together against the attempts to stop the war. The military would operate against Hamas all through the Gaza Strip including Rafah, the last Hamas stronghold. Whoever tells us not to act in Rafah is telling us to lose the war and that will not happen.”

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Prime Minister of Israel

07 Mar 2024 4 2

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“The idea that we will stop the war before achieving all its objectives is out of the question. We will enter Rafah and we will eliminate the Hamas battalions there - with or without a deal, in order to achieve the total victory.”

“This government has to choose: return the abductees alive, or Ben Gvir and Smotrich, relations with the Americans or Ben Gvir and Smotrich, the Saudi deal or Ben Gvir and Smotrich, Israel's security or Ben Gvir and Smotrich.”

“The US is not projecting strength under [Biden's] leadership, and it's harming Israel and other countries. He said 'Don't' at the start of the war - to Hezbollah, as well as Iran. We saw the result. If I were an American citizen with the right to vote, I'd vote for Trump and Republicans.”

“If every time Israel decides to punish Iran, it creates a massive tumult in Washington and London, these countries are going to pressure Israel. There's going to be a major international effort to build cordons around Israel's behavior toward Iran.”

“Iran's attack on the country will be met with a response. When we look ahead, we consider our steps. The launch of so many cruise missiles and drones into Israeli territory will be met with a response.”

“War crimes committed by the Israeli occupation on a daily basis in Gaza should not cover up what is happening in the West Bank. The imposition of sanctions by some countries on a number of colonists represents a small, late step that is insufficient to halt such attacks.”

“Israel's military intercepted 99 percent of the aerial threats launched at it on Saturday. The Nevatim air force base in the Negev desert in southern Israel suffered only light damage and is functioning. Iran thought it would paralyze the base. It failed.”

“A number of Iranian missiles fell inside Israeli territory, causing minor damage to a military base with no casualties. Only one little girl has been hurt, and we hope she will be well.”

“Their apologies for the outrageous killing of our colleagues represent cold comfort. It's cold comfort for the victims' families and WCK's global family. Israel needs to take concrete steps to assure the safety of humanitarian aid workers. Our operations remain suspended.”

“Before Monday there were rules of engagement, but now it's an all-out war between Israel and the resistance axis. It is now clear that the trend is towards escalation. We could start to see increased attacks against US bases in Syria, Iraq or elsewhere.”

“By targeting an Iranian diplomatic facility, Israel has crossed a line. Iran's dilemma is that failure to respond could signal weakness to Israel, but retaliation risks a harsher US or Israeli action.”

“The US cannot beg Netanyahu to stop bombing civilians one day and the next send him thousands more 2,000-pound bombs that can level entire city blocks. We must end our complicity: No more bombs to Israel.”

“I told him [Antony Blinken] that I hope we will do it with the support of the US, but if we have to - we will do it alone [sending troops into the southern Gaza city of Rafah].”

“We will operate in Rafah. This will take several weeks, and it will happen.”

“Medical scissors are now added to a long list of banned items the Israeli Authorities classify as 'for dual use'. The list includes basic and lifesaving items: from anesthetics, solar lights, oxygen cylinders and ventilators, to water cleaning tablets, cancer medicines and maternity kits.”

“The West Bank is already in crisis. Yet settler violence and settlement-related violations have reached shocking new levels, and risk eliminating any practical possibility of establishing a viable Palestinian state.”

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