5 Shimon Peres Quotes on Security

Shimon Peres quotes on security

2. Until the Yom Kippur War, in 1973, until then Israel didn't have a chance but to fight for her life. We were attacked five times, outgunned, outnumbered, on a small piece of land, and our main challenge was to remain alive.

3. There isn't a single person in Israel who wants to destroy or harm Egypt. In contrast, there's a whole country that openly wants to destroy Israel, and that's Iran. That is the difference between ours and Egypt's security problems. Egypt is not threatened by anyone. Israel is threatened by the second circle. Israel has never been and will never be a danger to Egypt. [...] Israel is not threatening Iran, Iran is threatening Israel. The situation is not similar.

8. The president of Iran should remember that Iran can also be wiped off the map.

9. If world is suspicious that Israel may detonate nuclear bomb and if the suspicion is a deterrent - that's good enough.

16. The Arabs began to understand that it is not poverty creating terror, but terror creating poverty. They are the victims of their own errors.