[But others urged caution.] I don't want to raise hopes that a deal is in hand and all that's left is to sign it, ... But in my opinion, there is a good chance to reach a comprehensive final status agreement, a framework deal, in the next few weeks.
brings us closer to making peace within a time frame that is not long.
But it doesn't mean if, God forbid, this opportunity is missed that we have to turn our backs to each other and say, 'Alas, there's no peace between us,'
But the room for maneuver for both leaderships is bigger than what they really think, and I think once they take brave decisions then they can convince their peoples to go along and to support them,
close on everything: on the settlements, on the borders, on the refugees, and on Jerusalem.
First of all, we did not sign any agreement. I think that we are patriots who are trying to save ourselves. This is more than legitimate.
For many years we have been under threat of security problems, ... Be it wars or terrorism or other problems, Israel is becoming more and more normal a country, where even these issues are not the only one component of the decision-making process.
How do I know that? He told me that. He said to me: 'You believe in peace, I don't believe we can have peace. For sure not in the foreseeable future, so I will go very very slowly'.
I believe we solve the whole question of the permanent agreement, and we are very close to it; it is actually around the corner.
I think if both of us, Palestinians and Israelis, cannot find our own solutions, nobody will help us.
I wouldn't say that this was the main reason but if elections weren't happening, maybe the decision would have been different.
I'm not sure if this is still realistic.
I'm sorry that some of these deadlines have been missed, especially by a government in Israel that has been very much against the peace process for three years between 1996 and 1999,
If anyone really wants to get prisoners released, the last thing he should do to encourage it is to continue with this process, because not one of us will countenance release of prisoners on the background of columns of smoke in the territories,
If there is no permanent settlement before May 1999, the Palestinians will have to declare unilaterally their own state because, otherwise, politically they are doomed.
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