So far it is not officially canceled, ... There was an idea promoted by the Egyptian president, Mubarak, and the details of such a meeting at this very moment are not known. The scheduled time is tomorrow evening and it's a long, long time here. Many things can be changed. |
targeting the people who have been behind the violence. This was not an attack on the Palestinian people. |
The deputy plays a crucial role in the Defense Ministry. |
The fact that Syria insists upon dictating an agreement and not obtaining an agreed-upon agreement is what made the resumption of the talks impossible, ... They are quite intransigent about what they are supposed to give in terms of security arrangements, and they have different ideas about normalization. |
The Israeli people can sleep well at night. We need a defense minister with the proper combination of boldness and prudence, an ability to assess and decide. |
The last word hasn't been said yet. |
There are absolutely no security related reasons to cancel flights to Israel, ... We are demanding an explanation from the airlines. |
They intended to lay explosives in the center of one of the Israeli towns and to inflict very heavy casualties, |
This is a tragedy, and they do it with a pretext or without it. |
This partnership has reached its end. It is just a matter of weeks. |
Though there is no clear-cut evidence that this gunman is related to a terror organization, it's the most logical assumption that when someone opens fire on an El Al counter in an international airport, most likely this is a terror attack. |
Today it was a pre-emptive operation because those terrorists that were killed were on their way to another attack on Israelis ... ... It should be very, very clear, if the game is a guerrilla war, we are the champions of the world in this game. |
Today it was a pre-emptive operation because those terrorists that were killed were on their way to another attack on Israelis... ... It should be very, very clear, if the game is a guerrilla war, we are the champions of the world in this game. |
We are at a very critical point, ... If Arafat gives a clear final order to stop the violence, and the violence really, totally stops, then everything is open again for resumption of the talks. |
We are now exactly in a crossroad, and Chairman (Yasser) Arafat has to take a bold decision to stop the violence and to sit back at the table ... and to strike a deal, ... If the violence continues, I am afraid we will go a long way back and this is not in the interest of peace. |