Ipse related to Israel

Alon Liel

Inserted 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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.”

Theguardian

World Central Kitchen’s chief executive

05 Apr 2024 3 1

Guy Goodwin-Gill

Inserted 1 month 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 1 month 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.”

Aje

Director of the Damascus Centre for Strategic Research

02 Apr 2024 7 1

Ali Vaez

Inserted 1 month 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 1 month 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 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months ago

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

Reuters

Prime Minister of Israel

17 Mar 2024 2 1

Chuck Schumer

Inserted 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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.”

Aje

Prime Minister of Israel

07 Mar 2024 4 2

Hamdah Salhut

Inserted 2 months ago

“This round of talks has concluded with no substantial answer or solution for [a] ceasefire or pause in the fighting. It is worth mentioning that the Israelis themselves chose not to send their own delegation to Cairo for this round of talks because they were hoping to receive a list of names of all of the captives who are alive and currently being held in Gaza.”

Aljazeera

Al Jazeera’s journalist reporting from occupied East Jerusalem

07 Mar 2024 3 2

Mohamad Elmasry

Inserted 2 months ago

“Israel and Hamas remain far apart in negotiations for a new deal to reach a truce in Gaza. I think that it's hard to square Israel's endgame. Their objective remains trying to finish off Hamas, which the US has said is impossible. Effectively, what this means is that they want to continue to bomb Gaza and further destroy it, even though they've already destroyed most of it. Hamas, on the other hand, wants a permanent ceasefire. So how do you square those two opposing aims and conditions? That's the problem right now. US is pushing hard for a deal before the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. I don't think the Israelis care so much about Ramadan. Last year, Israel was beating Palestinian worshippers at the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound with batons. But I think the US understands that they're going to look really bad if Israel is systematically preventing aid and bombing Palestinians during the Muslim holy month, and that's why I think they're ramping up pressure.”

Aje

Associate Professor and Chair in the Media and Cultural Studies and Journalism programs at the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies

06 Mar 2024 5 2

Bezalel Smotrich

Inserted 2 months ago

“Only more pressure on Hamas in Ramadan will force them to kneel and release the Israeli captives. We must not allow Hamas to choose who is released from among our abductors, and the demand must be the release of all abductees.”

Aje

Finance Minister of Israel

04 Mar 2024 3 2

Volker Türk

Inserted 2 months ago

“Any spark could lead to a much broader conflagration. This would have implications for every country in the Middle East,and many beyond it.”

Aljazeera

UN high commissioner for human rights

04 Mar 2024 2 1

Yair Lapid

Inserted 2 months ago

“You ask us whether we are doing enough to return the hostages, and the answer is no. If we were doing enough, then they would already be returning home.”

Aje

Israeli politician and former prime minister

02 Mar 2024 1 1

Omar Ashour

Inserted 2 months ago

“The [Israeli military's] first priority is to destroy the armed wing of Hamas and the other Palestinian factions, to undermine them in any way, even if it costs the lives of some of the hostages. The latest captives' reported deaths also indicates that Israel's war strategy is not achieving its objectives after more than 140 days of fighting. We are in the 147th day of war and there are more and more hostages dying, the majority of them by Israeli fire. The only way to release the hostages safely is the way it was done before - through some sort of negotiations. The Israeli government knows that… They just don't want to admit it.”

Aje

Professor of security and military studies at the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies

01 Mar 2024 3 2

Israel Katz

Inserted 2 months ago

“You said that Israel's just war against Hamas in Gaza is the same as what Hitler and the Nazis did to the Jews and you have desecrated the memory of the six million Jews who were murdered in the Holocaust. We will not forget nor forgive. Shame on you and apologise!”

Aje

Israeli Foreign Minister

28 Feb 2024 6 1

Montaser Sammour

Inserted 2 months ago

“In February, Israeli forces arrested 110 residents, mostly former prisoners and wounded men. In January, the occupation re-arrested a child, who was among those who were released in the exchange deal that took place in November 2023. This isn't just about numbers. The brutality with which the detainees and their families are being treated is unprecedented. This includes incidents of abuse, torture, severe beatings, and the use of family members, including women, as hostages to pressure a family member to surrender.”

Aje

Head of the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society in Jenin

26 Feb 2024 5 1

Hani al-Masri

Inserted 2 months ago

“Israeli government is still unclear on the type of restrictions it will take in the Muslim holy month against worshippers trying to pray at Al-Aqsa Mosque. It's due to pressure from the more right-wing ministers who are calling for matters to be resolved with a firm hand. But the army knows that Ramadan is a powder keg that can lead to an explosive situation, especially with the ongoing war in Gaza. Netanyahu is looking to side with Smotrich and Ben-Gvir, who don't want to see any restrictions lifted during Ramadan, while the military is concerned about things spilling over in the occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem.”

Aje

Director of the Masarat Center for Policy Research

25 Feb 2024 7 1

Mads Gilbert

Inserted 2 months ago

“This is not a tragedy; it is man-made. Starvation is being forced upon the people of Gaza by the Israeli occupation forces. Just two days ago, the international nutrition cluster came out with a very alarming report … that there is a sharp increase in the drivers of malnutrition in Gaza - food insecurity, a lack of diversity in the diet and decreasing infant and young child feeding possibilities. How can the world just sit idly by and watch children die from starvation?”

Aje

Norwegian physician and humanitarian advocate

25 Feb 2024 4 2

Willem Marx

Inserted 2 months ago

“It looks like there will be around 40 Israeli hostages being released - that would be women civilians, female soldiers, older men with serious medical conditions - in return for hundreds of Palestinian prisoners currently held in detention or Israeli jails. An agreement could also lead to a considerable increase in humanitarian aid going into the Gaza Strip and a potential return of Palestinians to the heavily bombarded and attacked areas in the northern part of the enclave.”

Aljazeera

Al Jazeera’s journalist reporting from occupied East Jerusalem

25 Feb 2024 5 2

Marwan Bishara

Inserted 2 months ago

“The thing about imperial powers like the UK and the US is that they don't give a damn about the action, in this case, the occupation. They care for the actor, and the actor is an ally, Israel. That's why this court is important, because this court does not see actors. It doesn't care about the identity of the actor, it only cares about the nature of the act. And in this case, it's 75 years of dispossession, 56 years of occupation. The UK and the US don't want you to know the legal opinion of this question, because what they care about is the cynical calculus of geopolitics.”

Aje

Senior political analyst at Al Jazeera

23 Feb 2024 5 3

Munir Nuseibah

Inserted 3 months ago

“This has been experimented [with] over the past three decades. Palestinians have been negotiating with Israel, and Israel doesn't want to get anywhere with these negotiations. At the same time … Israel has been taking more land, expelling Palestinians from their homes and controlling their lives more. What we can see today in the Gaza Strip, Israel has not even thought that apartheid is enough, now they are committing genocide. So what should we wait for? Should we wait until there are no more Palestinians to talk to?”

Aje

Palestinian human rights lawyer from occupied East Jerusalem

20 Feb 2024 4 2

Avi Melamed

Inserted 3 months ago

“Rafah is the last bastion of Hamas control and there remain battalions in Rafah which Israel must dismantle to achieve its goals in this war. The only potential delay to the Israeli assault on Rafah could come should Hamas give ground in hostage negotiations and hand over the prisoners it took on Oct. 7. Even that would only delay the advance on Rafah unless it is coupled with the demilitarization of the city and surrender of the Hamas battalions there.”

Reuters

Former Israeli intelligence official and a negotiator during the first and second intifadas

19 Feb 2024 3 1

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“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.”

“Only more pressure on Hamas in Ramadan will force them to kneel and release the Israeli captives. We must not allow Hamas to choose who is released from among our abductors, and the demand must be the release of all abductees.”

“Any spark could lead to a much broader conflagration. This would have implications for every country in the Middle East,and many beyond it.”

“You ask us whether we are doing enough to return the hostages, and the answer is no. If we were doing enough, then they would already be returning home.”

“You said that Israel's just war against Hamas in Gaza is the same as what Hitler and the Nazis did to the Jews and you have desecrated the memory of the six million Jews who were murdered in the Holocaust. We will not forget nor forgive. Shame on you and apologise!”

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