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...

Stop finger-pointing and accusing Arafat. There are more than 200 … Palestinians who were arrested because we are following up and pursuing those who planned the attacks on Israel.

It is obvious that Prime Minister [Ariel] Sharon wants to end his election campaign with more Palestinian blood and destruction. He’s turning the Gaza strip into a pile of rubble in a deliberate attempt to...

Abu Mazen (Abbas) told President Katsav that he was happy about the way disengagement had been implemented and its peaceful organisation.

The fact is Israel is seizing this opportunity now and building this wall in order to confiscate land and to create policies on the ground and to have final negotiations by dictations rather than negotiations.

I think that this is a very clear cut message that the war being waged by Israel against the Palestinians is not a war against terror, as they call it, it’s a war to maintain...

The basic ingredient for all the ails that we are witnessing there is the continuation of the Israeli occupation, and this must end, … President Arafat is determined to exert every possible effort in order...

It is a deliberate attempt to undermine the new Palestinian Cabinet and prime minister.

If Mr. Sharon is in the government, we all know the peace process will be over,

I must say that this could be preparing for something big, storming the church, destroying the church and then blaming it on Palestinians,

We want to deal as a package. This is the approach, this report cannot be fragmented. And I say again, it cannot be fragmented, no party can be selective.

The Palestinian Authority will take every possible action if it proves that those behind this attack had anything to do, or were coming from, Palestinian areas. We don’t condone the killing of civilians, either Palestinians...

If Mr. Ross comes today and he leaves like he did the last two times, we’ll be facing a disaster.

This is a significant change.

Aid from Germany, the European Union and other donor countries must continue to finance infrastructure projects in all fields.

This is clear evidence that they (Israel) are trying to destroy the election in general.

Israel must be stopped immediately. This is an all-out war against the Palestinians. We call on the international authorities to interfere immediately.

We had five days of intensive talks. It’s been tough, it’s been difficult.

I think what we are witnessing here is a Palestinian landmark,