Cease-fire is important, but it can last only for a very, very, very short time..

No one can compare us to the apartheid regime. It's not like in South Africa between the blacks and the whites who belong to the same nation, or in B….

We are not going to damage our safety and our security. We're not going to give those extremists the privilege to come so freely to Israel in order t….

There is no taboo after this assassination and no one of the Palestinian leaders has immunity anymore, ... It shows once again the necessity to colle….

Most of the international community, most of the countries around the world, don't want any side, any party to take unilateral steps. They would like….

In my view, Arafat is the only Palestinian in the world that isn't willing to have an independent Palestinian state..

The security fence is reversible. Human lives are irreversible..

It's not a democracy here, it's the Middle East..

The Palestinians are not willing to do anything, they're not willing to make the strategic decision to dismantle the infrastructure of terrorist orga….

There's no preventative measure between the Palestinians, between those terrorists to the state of Israel..

We believe that we should come to an agreement with the Palestinians. But we need two to tango..

In 1988, King Hussein of Jordan said that it doesn't take any connection any more to those territories, and he would like to split from those territo….

I'd like to ask you: what you would prefer us to do? I'd like to ask my colleagues, would any other country act differently? I think the answer is ve….

Suicide bombers caused us more than 50 percent of our casualties. The fence works. There is a decline in the number of those terrorist attacks agains….

We have been in the territories since 1967. In 2002, we had sometimes three or four suicide attacks every day. We came to the conclusion that it can'….