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,