Nothing good will come out of the conference, nothing good will come out of it for the Palestinians. Iran is only offering the Palestinians more blood and despair. The future is only in peace and in reconciliation and regional cooperation and Tehran is fundamentally opposed to those goals. |
Now that the international community is energized to deal with the issue, we believe the chance for diplomacy succeeding has improved. |
On one had, no one wants to see economic chaos [in the P.A.]. On the other hand no one wants to see [the aid] come back in the form of suicide bombers. |
On the economic front, we will be as forthcoming as we can, |
Our assessment is that the jury is still out. |
Our problem with the Palestinian leadership - and none of us has given up on them as partners - is not their words. But it stays at the level of articulated statements and is not translated on the ground into action. |
Simon Wiesenthal acted to bring justice to those who had escaped justice. In doing so, he was the voice of 6 million. |
Simon Wiesenthal acted to bring justice to those who had escaped justice. In doing so, he was the voice of six million. |
Simon Wiesenthal's passing saddens us all. He was a champion in the fight to bring to justice the 20th Century's worst criminals who had escaped justice. |
The combination of a regime with a very radical agenda, put together with nuclear weapons, I think that is a combination, a dangerous combination that no one in the international community can accept. |
The combination of extremist ideology, a warped understanding of reality and nuclear weapons is a combination that no-one in the international community can accept. |
The conditions are there, and now there is momentum, and that momentum is affecting others. |
The exact composition of the incoming Palestinian government is of lesser importance. |
The fear was that extremists would use porous borders to pour into Gaza to bring in explosives, weaponry cash, and that would energize the most extremist elements in the Gaza Strip instead of helping the moderates. I think this agreement that we have reached today has the right balance. It provides the maximum possible movement for Palestinians to move in and out of Gaza, as they desire and for goods to come in and out of Gaza, and at the same time for that to be balanced with the very real security concerns that everyone has. |
The fence isn't going up in a vacuum, ... It's going up in the context of an all-too-real terrorist threat. |