[? Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres told CNN the Israeli actions were a message to Arafat.] In many ways, this is more of a warning than a military operation. It is a warning to Arafat, telling him: 'Take the situation into your own hands and respond to the real problems,' ... Larry King Live. |
[Another Palestinian official called the cease-fire declaration a] trick, ... I invite the Palestinians to use the same trick. |
[Former Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres, however, expressed optimism about the eventual outcome of talks.] We can reach an agreement with the Syrians, ... The differences are not as wide as one may think. |
[Israel and the Palestinians must] resume negotiations and stop the violence, ... Both must be done simultaneously -- it is very urgent. |
a concentration of people who are planning attacks in Israel. |
A man that combines moral foundations with intellectual talents. And serves a cause. He becomes uninteresting the minute he becomes self-concerned. Then it's a waste of greatness not greatness. |
A political agreement (with Syria) may be an end of a war. But an economic agreement may be a beginning of peace, |
A revolution is needed in the thinking on the state budget. Investments must be made in the Negev, Galilee and Jerusalem in order to save them. |
aimed at bringing about a cessation of terror and violence and as such creating the necessary groundwork for the renewal of political negotiations. |
All of the cowards who try to scare us every day have no right to speak. We weren't afraid for five decades and we won't be afraid of idle threats now. |
allow us to create an army without soldiers. |
an attempt to bring an end to the government of one of the most terrible persons of our time, Saddam Hussein. ... And we think and know that he is on his way to acquire a nuclear option; then it will be terrible. |
Any assassination is an assassination. It's cold, it's terrible. I'm against any capital punishment. Only the Lord has the right to take away life because he's the giver of life. And assassination stands against democracy, against civilization, against a civilized life of people. Alas, the situation in Lebanon is very chaotic and many innocent people lost their lives because they have a state within a state, an army within an army and the respect for life is not high enough. |
areas where there is a concentration of suicide terrorists. |
at the earliest possible date. |