[But a Sharon spokesman described the talks differently:] I would characterize the meeting as constructive, in a good atmosphere, business-like, ... We didn't agree on all the issues, that wasn't expected. |
[Militants] are firing freely every night, so we are drawing a red line. Anyone who crosses into that area once the program is implemented is fair game. |
[The attack] indicates that unless there is decisive and sustained effort taken to dismantle the terrorist organization, it will be impossible to move towards normalizations and towards political negotiations. That's the message of today's attack, ... And I think the responsibility on that lies with the Palestinian Authority. |
All we wanted was to do justice with those who committed murder. |
An attempt to reach deadlines ... is a formula that has led in the past not to peace and not to security. |
Anyone who participates in this government must renounce terrorism, must abandon the path of terrorism, must abandon incitement and the culture of hatred (and) must disarm the terrorist groups. |
As with regards to the future ... that's a separate issue. |
committed to the cease-fire ... committed to peace. |
Condemnation is very nice, but it won't bring back to life the people who were killed. The Palestinian Authority has to take concrete steps to make arrests, to put people behind bars, to put obstacles in the way of the terrorists. |
Do it directly to the population. We have to establish bypass roads to the Palestinian population that bypass a terrorist government. |
Europe supports Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and the Palestinian Authority. It's the wrong decision, at the wrong time, to the wrong address. |
Everybody's concerned. The whole people of Israel are concerned. The whole world is concerned. Everybody wants to see him get better. |
Everyone who undergoes this kind of event, it does something to him in terms of perceptions, in terms of the need to hold back and take it easy for a while. |
has issued instructions to provide any medical assistance necessary -- and that includes teams of doctors that will be arriving. |
He is fully lucid, in full control. |