Both of them (Katsav and Sharon) confirmed that they were ready to meet Abu Mazen as well without any formal date being finalised.

We demanded from the Israelis to move their forces outside the area of friction, at the entrances of our towns, villages and refugee camps — to no avail,

The decision to delay the declaration until after the Israeli elections will result in a political vacuum and a policy of inaction. The road map should have been declared so that the Israelis can choose...

Arafat will have to decide this.

Unfortunately we should not expect much out of this summit.

We discussed the humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza which has come about because of the Israeli siege.

This is part of their [the Israelis’] continued plan to undermine the peace process and to undermine the Palestinian Authority,

could happen as soon as next week.

One army is shooting and Palestinian children are dying. Cease-fire by whom? It is the Israelis who are shooting.

I don’t expect any breakthrough between now and January 20, or for that matter February 6,

When it comes to Palestinian mothers and children and innocent civilians killed by the Israeli army, the U.S. administration chooses not to see, not to speak, and not to condemn,

We are still at odds over the numbers of the prisoners to be released, … We are demanding 400 and they will only accept 350.

All I can say is that this is a necessary step.

We don’t want to meet just for the sake of meeting. We want a well-prepared meeting with an extensive agenda focusing on all the current issues.

I hope that we will not give the impression that Palestinian leaders will start parachuting in the West Bank and Gaza from Washington,

Our message in Washington will be clear, we want a mechanism that will get Israel to commit to the implementation of the agreement.

Where do we go with this vicious cycle?

This is a sad day for the United Nations. I hope the U.S. veto will not be interpreted by Israel as a license to kill Yasser Arafat.

We should be prepared for elections and carry out whatever is possible to implement,

not break the national consensus.

This will have serious negative repercussions. We call upon the quartet [ the United States, European Union, Russia and United Nations] to exert every possible effort in order to introduce the road map for peace.

I urge the Israelis to understand that we need to continue talking. I also urge the good office of President Bush to exert every possible effort to resume the contacts.

We will set as the loyal opposition in parliament.

We asked the Israeli side to resume negotiations on all levels intensively and on a daily basis, but unfortunately until now we have not had any answers,

urge the U.S. and the Europeans to provide international observers immediately.

I don’t think Sharon had intended by doing this tonight to give the peace process any chance at all. Nothing justifies the targeting and the bombardment of this residential area.

I was under shock, … You have to think, ‘take it down, then they’ll storm the plane, somebody may shoot.’

We condemn in the strongest possible terms the bloody massacre that was committed in Gaza, and we urge the U.S. administration to condemn this vicious escalation and to stop this Israeli government from destroying any...

contacts between the Palestinian Authority and the government of Israel.

Whose army and tanks are in the streets of every Palestinian quarter, every Palestinian city, every Palestinian town and village?

What we need to do is to see an immediate implementation of the Mitchell recommendations. But above anything else … we need the Israeli government to join us at the negotiating table.

I hope that Mr. Gold and Mr. Sharon will stop this broken record, assigning blame. Finger pointing will not save the lives of Israelis and Palestinians.

We are having serious, in-depth negotiations. Gaps still do exist on all issues. We are exerting maximum efforts, but at the end of the day, the gaps are still there.

What matters is the content of this summit, not the date,

The international community continues to deal with Israel even though it is a state above the law.

a monitoring system so they can tell the Israelis what the Palestinians are doing and what they are not doing.

This separation wall does not separate Israelis and Palestinians. It separates Palestinians from Palestinians. It annexes 300,000 Palestinians into Israel.

will be the biggest blow to President Bush’s two-state solution and will sabotage any idea of a road map.

This court is calling upon nations not to help, not to talk, not to recognize any of the things Israel is creating by this wall,

The only thing Israel has done is accuse the Palestinian Authority of not implementing its commitments.

At the same time, it doesn’t cost President Bush anything to attack the Palestinians and to take sides with Israelis against the Palestinian Authority because of internal politics. And this can’t be acceptable.

every Palestinian guilty until proven innocent.

The Israelis would do better to attach no conditions and come back to the bargaining table.

But I want to make clear, if Israel wants peace, they know the address. It is Palestinian elected leadership — we who will make peace. We who, with Israelis, work to break this vicious cycle...

What Mr. Sharon is doing is saying to the whole world, ‘I will win.’ But … he will score victory over what?

It’s a good sign to hear Mr. Peres speaking. I think he is the first Israeli official to apologize for this, and I hope that many Israeli officials will condemn this crime, which will not...

We don’t want a meeting for the sake of the meeting. We need a meeting with substance.

We condemn this attack in the strongest possible terms. Every time there is movement toward resumption of negotiations we get these attacks by the Israelis.

This is a criminal act, a political assassination and a continued Israeli aggression against the Palestinian people.

We need between three to six months. I am not going to specify the periods now because we have an international committee actually involving the European Union, the United States, Canada, Japan and Norway who...