Walid Jumblatt Quotes

Each and every day, Israel's very existence is at stake.

There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.

I don't know whether war is an interlude during peace, or peace an interlude during war.

We have won an armistice on a single battleground, not peace in the world. We may not now relax our guard nor cease our quest.

Almost certainly there will be vicious wars between the states.

Yemen is one of the most dangerous spots in the world.

I say at this point, for different reasons, Bush and Hussein are both very threatening to world peace and to deny that is to be incredibly naive.

We wanted this war and now we've got it, and I'm not sure that we know what to do with it.

Iraq is in a civil war. There is no road in that country that is safe.

I have seen enough of one war never to wish to see another.

The road ahead is not easy. Iraq is currently the center of the war on terror.

You know what I had a problem with? The war - the war in Afghanistan.

In some ways, Israel has achieved a peace. There are fewer rockets being sent into Sderot, there are no rockets to speak of from the North, there has been very little terrorism from the West Bank. It's a kind of peace. I hope for a better and more enduring peace. Peace is not an endgame; we will never be completely at peace.

I'm not an expert on the Middle East or terrorism or the use of military force or politics. It's all I can do to know a little bit about how to help people raise their kids and what to do when they get sick. When a war happens, I just hope it gets over with quickly so that how we take care of children becomes more important again.

So to recap: we may or may not be going to war with Iraq because Saddam may or may not have weapons of mass destruction, which he may or may not use, or pass to other terrorists groups with whom he may or may not have links.

War and preparations for war have acquired a kind of legitimacy.

Either a war has to be fought, or it doesn't.

The history of our civilization has been one of intermittent war.

Those are serious questions of war and peace, of freedom or tyranny, whether or not there is ever going to be a hope of us instilling some democratic systems in a part of the world that frankly is breeding hate and destruction directed right at us.

War is regarded as nothing but the continuation of state policy with other means.

As a Korean War Veteran, I know too well the troubling nature of war. This is why I will always support a diplomatic answer before military intervention.

The Middle East is obviously an issue that has plagued the region for centuries.

I think that war is diplomacy by other means, for sure, and there have been wars that have been fought for righteous reasons. There are wars that have had to be fought, and there will probably continue to be.

So I think we should stay focused on the real problem in the Middle East. It's not Israel. It's these dictatorships that are developing nuclear weapons with the specific goal of wiping Israel away.

In late 2009, I returned to Baghdad after a lengthy absence. I was living alone, in the Hamra Hotel, the twice bombed-out de facto international news bureau.