I don’t think in the long run it is in our favor to keep the Gaza Strip tightly closed with people starving inside, … Our policy to allow them to work in Israel after a...

What has to worry us is whether it will be a genuine deployment or a make-believe deployment, and at present the impression is that it will be a make-believe deployment,

As long as the Palestinian Authority doesn’t fulfill its duty to contain terrorism, there is no alternative left for us but to act, … As long as there is a war, we are in war.

Iran actively and relentlessly undermines the peace process through various terrorist organizations. When such a regime has a long-range capacity combined with a tremendous effort to combine it with nuclear projects, it’s of great concern...

An attempt to destroy talks

If those who mastermind and those who prepare the terrorist attacks are arrested … that would be a real sign that he means business, … Late Edition with Wolf Blitzer.

We presume that when El Al passengers are attacked by a gunman at an international airport, we believe this is a terrorist attack, … ‘Til proved otherwise, this is an act of terror.

We shall pursue the terrorists wherever they are,

We are now exactly in a crossroad, and Chairman (Yasser) Arafat has to take a bold decision to stop the violence and to sit back at the table … and to strike a deal, …...

concrete warnings of plans to carry out an attack at the shrine itself.

No, we are not going to retaliate right now,

We will take only those actions which are needed to the security of the Israelis,

We have warnings that these terrorist organizations [will] try to hit Israeli and Jewish targets all over world so we have no reason to assume that this is something different than a terrorist attack.

I don’t think he profoundly believes in a two-state solution, … But he understands in the current situation he cannot have both the West Bank and Gaza.

I’m afraid this is the last chance, because a collapse of this summit may lead to, as I’ve said before, despair on both sides, and despair leads to violence.

We are at a very critical point, … If Arafat gives a clear final order to stop the violence, and the violence really, totally stops, then everything is open again for resumption of the talks.

This partnership has reached its end. It is just a matter of weeks.

At the outset, Netanyahu planted land mines in the agreement, that they would explode down the road and will destroy the agreement, because generally he doesn’t want it.

targeting the people who have been behind the violence. This was not an attack on the Palestinian people.

Since the Palestinians are beginning to wage something that approximates a guerrilla war, our helicopter attack was a signal that if there is one, we have the answer to it,

Today it was a pre-emptive operation because those terrorists that were killed were on their way to another attack on Israelis … … It should be very, very clear, if the game is a guerrilla...

So far it is not officially canceled, … There was an idea promoted by the Egyptian president, Mubarak, and the details of such a meeting at this very moment are not known. The scheduled time...

The fact that Syria insists upon dictating an agreement and not obtaining an agreed-upon agreement is what made the resumption of the talks impossible, … They are quite intransigent about what they are supposed to...

I don’t want to commit,

The deputy plays a crucial role in the Defense Ministry.

Though there is no clear-cut evidence that this gunman is related to a terror organization, it’s the most logical assumption that when someone opens fire on an El Al counter in an international airport, most...

If they think they have some immunity in the refugee camps, they are mistaken and we’ve proved it,

There are absolutely no security related reasons to cancel flights to Israel, … We are demanding an explanation from the airlines.

We will pursue these factories of the missiles, the place where they coach the suicide bombers. We will reach them everywhere.

The Israeli people can sleep well at night. We need a defense minister with the proper combination of boldness and prudence, an ability to assess and decide.

This is a tragedy, and they do it with a pretext or without it.

Just as we withdrew to the last millimeter, the Lebanese army needs to ensure security until the last millimeter of the border,

Since we face a guerrilla warfare, we have to take measures which are counter-guerrilla, … This is one of the relative advantages of the Israeli Defense Forces, and we are going to exercise them, to...

The last word hasn’t been said yet.

They intended to lay explosives in the center of one of the Israeli towns and to inflict very heavy casualties,