There is no taboo after this assassination, and no one of the Palestinian leaders has immunity,

I think that the time has come after we ended our withdrawal of Gaza [for Arabs] to take the initiative, take a move forward to have better relations with Israel.

[Israel’s foreign minister described the talks as a] historic meeting … We are talking about a tremendous significance, not just in regards to our relations with Pakistan, but the entire Muslim world.

If we had built this fence on the 1967 borders, it would have been a political fence. But on this route, it is a security fence.

This is a historic move because it could lead other Muslim, Arab countries to understand that this is the right time to do this and to move their ties with us from darkness to light,...

major breakthrough .

an attempt at spin.

The Palestinians are not willing to do anything, they’re not willing to make the strategic decision to dismantle the infrastructure of terrorist organizations.

If we go forward and there will be an open passage from Rafah into Egypt and vice versa, we will need supervision of a third party. We will discuss as a possibility European Union involvement...

[Killing Arafat] is not the official policy of the Israeli government, … It was never before, and we don’t speak about any killing, we didn’t speak about it before, and we don’t speak about it...

If we are invited to negotiations, it would be wrong to say no. It would be for the good of nation if we were in the government.

The security fence is reversible. Human lives are irreversible.

The iron wall … Relations are growing at a rate never seen before.

It’s easy to call for a unilateral withdrawal when you don’t consider what will happen the next day among the northern border communities.

In 1988, King Hussein of Jordan said that it doesn’t take any connection any more to those territories, and he would like to split from those territories. So according to the international law, it doesn’t...

I am sure that this meeting will be followed by more meetings in the future. We hope that finally it will lead to full diplomatic relations with Pakistan as we would like it with all...

Israel will never agree to the return of Palestinian refugees to the territory of the state of Israel,

She’s coming also to try and narrow the gap between Israel and the Palestinians and to help us strengthen our relations with the Arab and Muslim world.

The Palestinians will never, never implement their commitment to dismantle their infrastructure of terrorist organizations.

We reached an agreement with the Egyptians and the Palestinians that we will wait six more months before we consider the opening of the Rafah passage for two ways,

The decision [to remove Arafat] that we took two days ago was not for immediate action, … We are taking into account our allies and our friends, and that’s the way we are working.

We made a huge breakthrough today…, … This is the appropriate time for all the Muslim and Arab countries to reconsider their relations with Israel. We think it will be a very positive signal to...

It is time to put an end to conspiracy theories against Israel,

These are optimistic times in the Middle East. The iron wall that has defined Israel’s relations with most of the Arab and Muslim world for generations is coming down,