Alexander Liberman Quotes

However, they did not treat the reasons that led to this condition. I believe that the conditions in the Palestinian territories are alway capable of explosion because the same circumstances are there.

When a peace agreement is concluded between the Lebanese government and Israel, we would surely disagree with the Lebanese government about that, but we would not make any turmoil out of it.

Our policy is clear, we are fighting in an area that is still under occupation in Lebanon. And beyond that area, we are on the defensive.

But with regards to Hezbollah, we are in a state of confrontation with Israeli occupiers and the battle is not over yet. It is still going on.

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.

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.

Lebanon is caught in a cycle of threats. And it is our duty to be strong and capable of defending our country. But we will not clarify or explain what we do or do not possess.

We did not start a fight with America, and we don`t want a war with America. If someone launches an attack, though, we will respond. We will not take rejection or humiliation. We do not want to fight.

What is illegal cannot be legal just because it has been 50 years. Occupation remains occupation, even if it`s for hundreds of years.

The Sharm el-Sheikh summit did not produce an agreement. It was a failure. They brought them together just to tell them - stop fighting.

The Palestinian must stop throwing stones, and the Israelis must stop firing rockets. And in the view of the Sharm el-Sheikh summit, rockets are equal to stones.

Among them, there were Muslims, Christians, and Jews living together. But then violent organizations came, bringing with them many large groups of people from various parts of the world to Palestine.

Israel remains a foreign body in this large area, and it always proved that it is unable to coexist with this environment, because the, the scope of the massacres that it has committed does not permit it to coexist.

We have no presence in Iraq, but certainly if the American troops come and attack Lebanon, without question, we will fight them.

Would you allow a people to come from somewhere else and occupy a part of the United States, and set up an independent state, and, after 50 years, you would not be able to stay on this land?

The problem is we disagree about the origin. Is this occupied land or not?

If you want my opinion, I say that this is a state based on occupation, that has usurped the rights of others.

What is being talked about now is the probability of the Sharon government launching an attack against Lebanon to eliminate the resistance of Hezbollah by using the American war against Iraq. But, of course, in this case, we will certainly fight with all our strength.

On this land, Muslims, Christians and Jews can coexist together, as they have - as they had for the - for hundreds of years in the framework of a democratic state.

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

The Americans are surely mistaken if they think they can make peace without finding a real and fair solution to the Palestinian issue.

I believe that Palestine is an occupied land from the Mediterranean Sea to the Jordan River, and this is the right of the entire Palestinian people, this land.

In the end, we are part of this region, and we are affected by its developments. What we may do or not do in the future depends on the nature of what happens here in the region.

In man - in the history of mankind, this has happened many times, and occupation leaders hang on to the land that they`re occupying. People fight to liberate their land. But in the end, the people`s will is what achieves victory.

Force is the duty of the state, not Hizbullah.

The ones who were negotiating are now on the front line of this intifada, because they found that the negotiations didn`t give them the minimum of their rights.

It`s not the first time that I speak with American journalists. I`ve had meetings with many different newspapers and stations, and I`ve ha - never had a problem with meeting with American journalists.

If you are asking for my point of view, I would say that the Palestinians should go back to Palestine.

I am against any reconciliation with Israel.