Today, Israeli democracy has spoken its piece, in a loud and clear voice. |
Today's reality day compels us to separate from the Palestinian population in the territories (the West Bank) and draw up the new borders of the state of Israel. |
True, the low number of seats causes some discomfort. |
We are closely monitoring developments in these difficult hours and our eyes, and those of the entire world, are directed toward the hospital in the hope of seeing the prime minister, who has emerged from so many previous battles, emerging from this battle as well and taking his seat here. |
We are happy to announce that immediately after the president empowers me to put together a government we will start coalition talks ... to establish as quickly a possible a government with the Labor Party as the senior partner. |
We are in a war, a very brutal war that has been waged against every Jewish person in the heart of Jerusalem, ... My city is bleeding, day in and day out, with tens of civilians killed. |
We are not changing our supply sources. We are adding new ones. |
We are not ready in any way to allow a situation in which money transferred by the government of Israel will somehow end up in the control of murderous elements who want to harm Israeli citizens. |
We are talking about a desire to define the permanent borders of Israel in the framework of an agreement (with the Palestinians) based on the road map. |
We are talking about a desire to define the permanent borders of Israel in the framework of an agreement [with the Palestinians] based on the road map. |
We are with the mainstream and responsible elements who want to take Israel where it should be, which shows a mix of political responsibility, the willingness to make concessions in order to achieve our ends, as well as real determination in the fight against terror. |
We believe that some maybe are still under the wreckage here, and the special units of the army are starting to work in order to move the wreckage in order to rescue all those that are still left here, |
We can never totally return to the indefensible pre-1967 borders, ... We simply cannot afford to make Israel [9 miles] wide again at its center. We can't allow the Palestinians to be a couple [miles] from [Tel Aviv's] Ben Gurion Airport in the age of shoulder-fire missiles with the capacity to shoot down jumbo jets. But that doesn't mean we must remain in every corner of the West Bank or in Gaza, where fewer than 10,000 Jews, living next to 1.3 million Palestinians, have been protected by twice as many soldiers. |
We cannot continue to control areas of the territories where most of the Palestinians live. |
We clarified that without a clear abandonment of the path of terror, a recognition of Israel's right to exist in security and peace ... Israel won't have any contact with the Palestinians. |