Our task is to guarantee that both of these commitments are fulfilled -- the fulfillment of the agreements themselves, and ensuring security. |
Our view is that commitments are to be kept by both sides, ... We have had problems with security and problems with other areas. I assure you we expect to fulfill our obligations merely because we expect the other side to fulfill their obligations. |
process that ignores reality and proceeds blindly, creating a base for Islamic terror that will threaten the state. |
Regardless of the fact that our relationship with the U.S. is of the first rank of Israel's strategic assets, it is not the supreme asset, |
Settlement activities are illegal and destructive to the peace process, ... For the sake of peace, I call upon the Israeli government to stop it immediately. |
Sharon created a precedent that could lead to a division of Jerusalem. |
Sharon gave and gave and gave some more, the Palestinians got more and more and more. |
Sharon gave and gave and gave, the Palestinians got and got and got, and my question is, what did we get? Nothing and nothing and nothing, |
So Arafat can no more declare unilaterally what that outcome would be than I could. We could each unilaterally decide what we want and then we'd have an explosion. |
So, I think that has to be resolved when we have a real political partner, and I think we will, |
Such a state would be able to raise a large army, use it without limitations, forge alliances with regimes that aim to destroy Israel, and serve as a base of increased terrorism against Israel, and in that way threaten its existence, |
Thanks to the heroism of the fallen, we can look to the future with hope, 50 years after the creation of the state of Israel and 3,000 years after the creation of the kingdom of Israel, |
That, I think, would pave the way for the resumption of the peace process, |
That's right, and I think this is the start of a new era, |
The choice is not between what is good and better, but between what is bad and worse, |