Israel

“Israel, correct me if I'm wrong, is now they charge three times as much for water than we do. So people take water seriously, and they actually monitor their water usage, and they have desalinization, and they have more water than they need per capita.”

“So that leaves you with a two state solution, however hard, however impossible it seems to negotiate that. It's the only option.”

“I think Israel has every right to defend itself, and they should eradicate Hamas.”

“Earlier this year, we used to have an ammunition stockpile in Israel. The United States did. It belonged to us, but it was there potentially in case of a problem in the region. And that artillery stockpile was basically taken and given to Ukraine.”

“I do think that if the reaction is this let's call it the Lindsey Graham level, the place reaction, I think that could set off a much wider regional war or even a world war.”

“I would consider The riots that we just saw in regards to the hospital and the eruption on social media to be a prelude or dress rehearsal of what we can expect to happen almost every day if Israel proceeds with the ground invasion of Gaza.”

“I mean, to destroy or even to imply That you would ever destroy the Al-Aqsa Mosque is such an explosive issue. It would turn the entire Muslim world against Israel, and basically, I think it would be the end of Israel.”

“This notion that we have almost a cancel culture behavior that's now leached into this discourse, that if you try and talk about the plight of Palestinians, you cannot also be pro-Israel. Is what's keeping us from making progress in finding a path to resolutio…”

“If they don't, Then I think that creates room for some sort of international diplomatic effort to get the hostages back and maybe deescalate the situation. And I guess we'll find out over the next week or so.”

“I personally think that that's still unlikely. And the main reason for that is I think Israel is determined to go in.”

“You do have a lot of civilian casualties, and those civilians have brothers and sisters and cousins and so forth, and that's going to lead to the next generation of terrorists.”

“Israel's a nuclear power.”

“The thing that's been holding back the Palestinian people has not been Israel. It's been their bad leadership.”

“I think GDP will take a big hit there in Q four, but obviously, you know, in Israel, they do have a history of coming back right away.”

“So number one is I don't think there's any viability to a one state, and I don't think that that's something that will ever occur.”

“And concurrently, it is time for Israelis to call an election to replace Benjamin Netanyahu because he is absolutely part of Israel's security problem.”

“So I don't think this is going to have any impact other than to escalate the conflict in the Middle East and put us on a path to war with Iran, which is really where the neocons want to take us. You've heard, obviously, the warmongers like Lindsey Graham are c…”

“These protesters, their actions are gonna be judged in the fullness of time. I think there are actually good reasons to believe that Israel's war in Gaza, it's shades of Vietnam, and I think that over the long term, people may regard these protesters in a diff…”

“The UN special representative on sexual violence Pramila Patton traveled to Israel, and here is what she wrote. She said, Eyewitnessed in Israel were scenes of unspeakable violence perpetrated with shocking brutality. Catalog of the most extreme and inhumane f…”

“That attack would have never happened in a million years.”

“If Israel could actually destroy Hamas and achieve its military objective in Gaza, that'd be one thing, but I think we've seen that that's impossible. I mean, Hamas basically bleeds in with the population. It's indistinguishable, and the leadership is hidden d…”

“And if Israel gets involved in a war with Iran, we're going to come in, in all likelihood.”

“My first vote in the United States Senate was a vote on the issue of Israel, and I got a call from, at the time, minority leader, Chuck Schumer, and he asked me to vote no. On, on the measure.”

“By the time the show airs, Israel's incursion into Lebanon is going to get bigger, it's going to escalate, and by next week we could be in a full-blown multinational war in the Middle East, and if I am, you know, a betting man, I would bet that the odds are, y…”

“When Israel was going into Gaza, I thought it was too blunt an instrument, but when they went after Hezbollah, I thought they did it the exact right way”

“Yesterday, in anticipation of this, Israel, which had very, very low tariffs on United States goods anyway, announced they'd removed all tariffs. On American goods, right? There were no tariffs on American goods anymore. And the administration that afternoon l…”

“I can tell you, I don't think the Israelis are gonna sit by quietly and allow this Iranian regime to continue to go out and build up a military that's constantly shouting death to Israel, death to the USA, And I think that they've taken their first shot and I …”

“These bombs weigh 15 tons each. They'll go deep underground. Israel doesn't have them, and that's the reason we're given of why we were pulled into this is because we're the only people in the world who could have taken these out.”

“Iran and Israel are mortal enemies, and we have a ceasefire here. We have a pause in the action, but it's going to flare up again at some point.”

“Has Israel done something America would not have done under certain, the same circumstances? I think America would have been a lot more brutal.”

“It's true Israel's ratio of like, casualty, innocent to non-innocent is better than anyone else ever had in the history of humanity, and it's gonna have to be better.”

“Their nuclear capability was destroyed much of their infrastructure destroyed, much of their military capability destroyed. When you look at Israel's actions throughout that twelve-day war their economy is tanking their energy sector is tanking, so it's a, it,…”

“I don't think the president is captured by Israel in the least. I think he decides what is in the best interest of the United States, and if Israel can be a part of that, then they're a part of it.”

“There's a social media blackout, but what you're starting to hear trickle out is that Israel is getting hit harder than they've ever been hit before in their history.”

“Watch what they're saying and doing, and that's becoming more and more anti-Israel openly hostile to Israel. And now that becomes part of the litmus purity test.”

“Well, that, that plays into the, to the anti-Semitism and the tropes, and it's like pulling all the strings, and they're behind.”

“They were in a just war, you know, and now remember where it started, and remember what Hamas continued to do.”

“I think Netanyahu, the leader of Israel, is someone who's been leading Israel down a dangerous and isolated path. I think he has made Israel more isolated in the world community. He has fractured really what used to be a nonpartisan or bipartisan American supp…”

“If you're suggesting, say, that Jews are Israel and reflect Israeli policies and support everything Israel does, I mean, that's one of the oldest anti-Semitic tropes Out there, this sort of notion of dual loyalty.”

“All of that kind of tells me that we will find an off ramp.”

“If you look at polling, 80% of Democrats now say they disapprove of Israel.”