The United States is committed to the security of Israel, and it is vital to U.S. national interests to assist Israel to develop and maintain a strong and ready self-defense capability,
This is a decisive moment—probably the best, maybe the last, opportunity to get the hostages home, to get a ceasefire, and to put everyone on a better path to enduring peace and security,
I'm here as part of an intensive diplomatic effort on President Biden's instructions to try to get this agreement to the line and, ultimately, over the line. It is time for it to get done,
There are things we can be flexible on and there are things that we cannot be flexible on — which we will insist on. We know how to distinguish between the two very well,
We know that the mutilated body is not that of an innocent bystander but the one who carried the bomb,
They were engineers, teachers, medical staff. They were humanitarian workers,
Blinken acts as if he was a minister in Netanyahu's government,
We're working to make sure that there is no escalation, that there are no provocations, that there are no actions that in any way could move us away from getting this deal over the line, or, for that matter, escalating the conflict to other places, and to greater intensity,
I will not speak for him, but I will tell you that these conversations are ongoing and we are not giving up, and we are going to continue to work very hard on this
This is the way we are living these days,
The new proposal responds to Netanyahu’s conditions,
It is time for it to get done. It’s also time to make sure that no one takes any steps that could derail this process,
There is no greater humanitarian objective, and there’s no greater humanitarian cause, than bringing back our hostages,
Are these women and children part of the resistance?"
We think this is a critical time,
Hamas, up to this moment, remains obstinate. It did not even send a representative to the talks in Doha. Therefore, the pressure should be directed at Hamas and (Yahya) Sinwar, not at the Israeli government,
Israel appreciates the efforts of the U.S. and the mediators to dissuade Hamas from refusing a hostage-release deal,
The right way to deter Iran and prevent war is by announcing that if Iran attacks, they will stand with Israel not only in defense, but also in striking targets in Iran,
Preventing and containing the spread of polio will take a massive, coordinated and urgent effort, ... It is impossible to conduct a polio vaccination campaign with war raging all over.”
We are closer than we have ever been. I don’t want to jinx anything.” ... We are not there yet. But it’s much, much closer than it was three days ago.”