The security of the citizens of Israel, the future of the state of Israel, this is the Israeli government’s responsibility. – Avigdor Lieberman
What I really – and I would like to clarify my position, to topple Hamas. And I think it’s possible to bring reasonable people, moderate people to take power in Gaza Strip. – Avigdor Lieberman
Nothing has come from this whole ‘peace industry’ except for conferences in five-star hotels and a waste of money. – Avigdor Lieberman
The Swedish government needs to understand that relations in the Middle East are more complicated than a piece of furniture from IKEA that you assemble at home. – Avigdor Lieberman
Any political process has to secure an improvement in the Palestinians’ quality of life and education. Attempts to bring about a political arrangement before securing peace to the Israelis and economic improvement for the Palestinians are likely to fail. – Avigdor Lieberman
The dividing line for Yisrael Beiteinu is who supports terror and who fights terror. – Avigdor Lieberman
Israel won’t be secure so long as Hamas is in power, and therefore, we need to come to a decision that we will break the will of Hamas to keep fighting. – Avigdor Lieberman
Without any doubt, the Iranian threat is the biggest threat facing the Jewish people since the Second World War. – Avigdor Lieberman
Yisrael Beiteinu is a party that puts on the table all the problems that people are afraid to speak about. – Avigdor Lieberman
At the end of the day, Americans know that the ones they really can trust, in all the Middle East, it’s only Israel. – Avigdor Lieberman
When there is a Palestinian state, it will absorb hundreds of thousands of refugees from Syria and Lebanon, because these states will simply expel all of these refugees. – Avigdor Lieberman
I think I can hold every portfolio – defense, finance and Foreign Ministry. I think personally I’d like the foreign office. – Avigdor Lieberman
It is hard to find a country friendlier to Israel than Canada these days. No other country in the world has demonstrated such a full understanding of us. – Avigdor Lieberman
It’s their choice, the choice of the people of Gaza, to create the real peace or at least to create conditions of coexistence. – Avigdor Lieberman
It is unacceptable that a senator or a representative in the American House of Representatives assist Afghanistan during the war and meet with Bin Laden and al-Qaeda leaders, express his support for their war against the U.S., and be allowed to return to serve in Congress. – Avigdor Lieberman
Although my stance on responsible citizenship made sense to many Israelis, the intelligentsia could not, as you say in English, get their heads around it. ‘Racist’ and ‘fascist’ were the knee-jerk reactions. – Avigdor Lieberman
Every place in the world where there are two peoples – two religions, two languages – there is friction and conflict. – Avigdor Lieberman