not to give the Palestinians the opportunity to try to arrange a big party next week in the United Nations.

I think there was a very major breakthrough today in the relations between us and Pakistan,

Israel is very sorry about the decision that was taken by the government of New Zealand, but we believe that if we will work one with each other, as we used to work in the...

a number unthinkable, even two years ago.

We will not cooperate with [Hamas’s] desire to participate in the forthcoming Palestinian elections, … And we call on the international community to make clear its own opposition to the inclusion of such terrorists in...

The message cannot be one of silence and restraint after such a terrible attack, … The terror organizations must know that we will continue to hunt them everywhere, all the time.

It’s not a democracy here, it’s the Middle East.

The Egyptian president is expected to arrive. We think he will probably come at the time of the marking of the decade since Rabin’s murder. But we want the visit to have also bilateral implications,

even now, we think that if Syria takes positive steps within the region, of course it will bring a new atmosphere and more peace and more quiet and stability.

Jews do not destroy synagogues. I hope the Palestinian Authority will come to its senses and not allow barbarism and vandalism to rule over the synagogues.

We have the responsibility to protect our people and that’s why we’re building this fence. We’ve suffered from 19,000 terrorist attacks during the last three years.

I wish to particularly thank President Musharraf for his courage in promoting peace and moderation in our region and in general.

We do not consider them to be democratic elections by any means,

This is the time for all Muslim and Arab countries to reconsider their relations with Israel. We think it will be a very positive signal to Israeli and Palestinian public opinion that there are some...

bring our contacts out into the light of day, so that our peoples may understand our shared desire to work with each other, to bring peace and prosperity to our region.

a number unthinkable even two years ago.

at a rate never seen before.

I don’t want to go into specific details, but who is going to check the luggage of those who will get in and out? Still we are negotiating these specific issues with the European Union,

It’s not that we’re going to separate our people into two parts. We would like the Palestinians to live there and we will live here.

There is no taboo after this assassination and no one of the Palestinian leaders has immunity anymore, … It shows once again the necessity to collect the illegal weapons and to dismantle the infrastructure of...

You are a very good friend of Israel, but more than that, you are a very good friend of peace, … You have done everything you can in order to have better time, better future...

I think this decision is a very grave decision, a dangerous decision, a poor decision.

We will ease the life of Palestinians by giving them more industrial zones, more licenses to work in Israel and to stay overnight here.

We would like to see the Gaza model succeeds,

I have already told (EU foreign policy chief) Javier Solana, if this model (of evacuating settlements) will work, and things will be calm and quiet, it will undoubtedly become a positive model for any future...

Pakistan as the second largest Muslim country after Indonesia has great weight. They themselves took a very brave step. We know they were under harsh attack, from the clergy and from others.

We are talking about an earthquake that has sent us back 50 years and will lead the entire region into chaos.

I am trying very hard to improve relations with the Arab and the Muslim world,

flashing contracts for private and public companies.

We are in a state of constant war … we said that any activity emanating from Gaza would be met by a very severe reaction by Israel. As there is still rocket firing from Gaza,...

Most of the international community, most of the countries around the world, don’t want any side, any party to take unilateral steps. They would like that all of us to stick to the road map.

If we would want at a later time to permit the entry and exit from Rafah to Egypt, and smoothly, we would want a third party there. There is no doubt that the Europeans are...

In this situation, of course I can’t vote for this agreement. I will see what they (Palestinians) will do in the near future,

The foreign minister of China believed after his visit to Tehran that the Iranians are serious about they are planning to move this development or those efforts only in order to develop, let’s say, nuclear...

We would be very happy to stop the building of the fence or destroy it in the future if we reach any kind of agreement with them.

It could happen, … But we need to see a timetable ? how we will start the peace process and how we will end.

Furthermore, the result proves once again that Iran is heading toward more radicalism and extremism rather than toward reform and reconciliation.

Cease-fire is important, but it can last only for a very, very, very short time.

the Palestinians wouldn’t like to abandon this tool of terrorism against us, and I think the world should be united in its combat against terrorism because the world realizes it’s global terrorism, it’s not a...

I am certain that these relations, even if they are behind-the-scenes ties, will in the end thaw into public relations, with a much higher status than today.

We will not allow Hamas to take part in the elections.

It is not our goal to continue this activity. It can end immediately,

No one can compare us to the apartheid regime. It’s not like in South Africa between the blacks and the whites who belong to the same nation, or in Berlin where you find parents living...

We will continue to work so that it does not run in the elections,

This is a country of all its citizens, and the economy also belongs to all Israelis. Anyone who fails to understand that, anyone who tries to defend their own little patch of territory, will soon...

Right now, even if I think that we have to go to a general election that will include the election … for the Knesset, I think that we don’t have enough time to do it,

We would like to ease the life of the Palestinians. I prepared a new plan that we call a positive agenda.

It is inconceivable that a movement such as Hamas, which has a very good chance of doing well or even winning, can participate in elections while calling for the destruction of the state of Israel.

formulate a unified and stern policy toward Iran. We must insure that more than Western countries will not become hostages of the Iranian radicalism. We call upon the U.N. Security Council to take the matter...

I’d like to ask you: what you would prefer us to do? I’d like to ask my colleagues, would any other country act differently? I think the answer is very clear. No one would act...