The incoming Palestinian leadership has to decide if it wants to be part of the legitimate international community or if it wants, through its own actions, to align itself with international pariahs. |
The Israeli position is public and known. We say Jerusalem will be the united capital of Israel in the framework of a final peace deal, |
The issue (of U.S. aid) is not on the table at the moment. Everyone's dealing with Katrina. |
The meeting was facilitated by the Turkish government and we appreciate their role. |
The Palestinian Authority honoring its commitments in the fight against terrorism is a prerequisite for moving forward with the political dialogue. |
The Palestinian leadership has no one to blame for this international isolation but itself through its stubbornness, short-sightedness and extremism. |
The Palestinians must also do more to help us, and that means they have to act against their extremists, |
The problem isn't only the extreme and hateful language. It's that these statements actually reflect the policies of the regime that have been implemented over the years, such as sponsoring suicide bombers. |
The problem was that you have a Palestinian leadership that said publicly that these people deserved to be let out and be free. And you had a situation where they created circumstances under which the international monitors were forced to leave. |
The question that many Israelis have on their minds is whether this is cosmetic or is this a substantial move in the right direction. Of course we very much hope it is the latter. |
The repeated outrageous remarks by the Iranian president unfortunately indicate the real mind-set of the ruling clique. |
The sad fact about the statement of the President of Iran is that he was correctly articulating the policy of his regime which has given hands-on support to the most extreme terrorist elements in the Middle East. |
The strategy is to present the incoming leadership of the Palestinian Authority a clear choice: either they transform themselves into a legitimate political interlocutor ... or they face international isolation. |
The third party will be on the Palestinian side of the frontier, and will be there to help beef up the Palestinian security presence. |
The visit is of great symbolic value, |