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

- Silvan Shalom

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

- Silvan Shalom

The security fence is reversible. Human lives are irreversible.

- Silvan Shalom

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…

- Silvan Shalom

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…

- Silvan Shalom

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

- Silvan Shalom

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…

- Silvan Shalom

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

- Silvan Shalom

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…

- Silvan Shalom