The president did not feel the film was anti-Semitic. Who at the Israeli Foreign Ministry was actually going to get dressed and go to Jerusalem Capital Studios where AP, CNN, FOX, Sky and BBC are based. |
There are people starving in the siege, there are children traumatized and terrified. There are men women and children dying. This is a situation that has reached the proportions of a tremendous humanitarian crisis. It is a tragedy and every minute that passes we lose lives and more people are brutalized and traumatized. |
there is tremendous displeasure with the function and dysfunction of the government and the Palestinian Authority. |
These weren't pre-emptive moves. If we wanted to do that, we would have taken steps on other measures dealing with security or dissolving the parliament. |
They don't take orders from Arafat. They think for themselves and act for themselves. |
This is a very serious development. We are witnessing some sort of regression in social norms. Palestine has always been famous for its tolerance, pluralism, amicable relations, lack of discrimination and sectarianism. It is quite alarming that such incidents should take place. |
this is an Israeli occupation army on our land, shooting our children, besieging our cities, using tanks, using fighter helicopters, using every brutal method in order to suppress ... a civilian population on its own land. |
This is the bottom line as far as all Palestinians are concerned. |
This really exposes Barak's real intentions when it comes to peacemaking, that either (Israelis) beat (the Palestinians) into submission in accepting what (Israelis) want, or (Israel) will suspend the peace process and ... pursue a policy which is entirely anti-peace, |
We accepted the (U.S.) initiative, trying to be helpful in getting the peace process back on track. We are not willing in any way to renegotiate the initiative ... I think the clock is ticking very fast. |
We are not interested in a show of negotiations without substance. |
We are not interested in a symbolic state, and statehood generally is not a concession from an occupying power. |
We are still in the middle of the competition. |
We can't allow a group or a handful of armed groups or militias to threaten the holding of elections in a fair and free environment. We can't allow them to hijack the electoral process. |
We cannot superimpose on any conflict very simple, borrowed and ready-made solutions ... The Americans constructed a simplistic paradigm for our peace process. And they expected everybody to think like Americans, to behave like Americans. |