The biggest collapse is the culture of lies and the culture of the media's glorifying regimes. |
The Israeli government continues its policy of assassination, ... This policy will destroy any hope for peace. Resistance will continue. |
The only way for the Palestinians and Israelis to live side by side in peace is when Israel respects the right of the Palestinian people to live as a free nation, free of the tyranny of the occupation, free of the tyranny of discrimination, free of the tyranny of violating the rights of the Palestinian people. |
The right to statehood is no longer in question and it (the declaration) makes clear that negotiations are to lead to statehood, |
The second step should be, as President Clinton announced, is really the resumption of the peace process, |
The U.S. did not have Jewish-American settlements in Afghanistan and the U.S. was not occupying Afghanistan in the same way that Israel is occupying the Palestinian territories, |
There is no reason people should stay away, ... Terrorism is present in every country in the world, and the Egyptian government is taking special measures to ensure the safety of visitors to the region. |
This is a sign from the pope, who is the highest Christian authority in this world, that he is denying the claim of Israeli sovereignty over Jerusalem, |
Those (Israeli) allegations are baseless. Not true. We have turned over a complete security plan to the Americans. The Americans approved it. We worked together on it. They were happy with it. President Clinton himself approved it and was satisfied with it. |
To use Apache helicopters to fire missiles at civilian quarters, that's a violation of international law. To destroy homes over its inhabitants, that's a violation of international law. Not to allow humanitarian aid for 14 days to arrive to wounded people, that is a violation of international humanitarian law, |
unacceptable and should be deplored. |
We conveyed to President Clinton our acceptance in principle to the proposal ... with our own explanations and interpretations of those proposals in relation to all the issues, |
We have no hesitation in condemning the violence and those acts of violence, and we condemn the killing of civilians, as we say always, Palestinian civilians as well as Israeli civilians, |
We have turned over a complete security plan to the Americans, ... President Clinton himself approved it and was happy with it. |
We regret the loss of civilian life, both Israeli and Palestinian, but this attack happened in Tel Aviv, and Tel Aviv is under Israeli security control and not Palestinian. |