Cease-fire is important, but it can last only for a very, very, very short time. Silvan Shalom Israeli Politician More Silvan Shalom Quotes 0
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 differently. Silvan Shalom Israeli Politician More Silvan Shalom Quotes 0
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 belong to anyone. Silvan Shalom Israeli Politician More Silvan Shalom Quotes 0
In my view, Arafat is the only Palestinian in the world that isn't willing to have an independent Palestinian state. Silvan Shalom Israeli Politician More Silvan Shalom Quotes 0
It's not a democracy here, it's the Middle East. Silvan Shalom Israeli Politician More Silvan Shalom Quotes 0
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. Silvan Shalom Israeli Politician More Silvan Shalom Quotes 0
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 on the eastern side and their children in the western side. Silvan Shalom Israeli Politician More Silvan Shalom Quotes 0
Suicide bombers caused us more than 50 percent of our casualties. The fence works. There is a decline in the number of those terrorist attacks against Israelis. Silvan Shalom Israeli Politician More Silvan Shalom Quotes 0
The security fence is reversible. Human lives are irreversible. Silvan Shalom Israeli Politician More Silvan Shalom Quotes 0
We are not going to damage our safety and our security. We're not going to give those extremists the privilege to come so freely to Israel in order to carry out more attacks against us and kill us one day after another. Silvan Shalom Israeli Politician More Silvan Shalom Quotes 0
We have been in the territories since 1967. In 2002, we had sometimes three or four suicide attacks every day. We came to the conclusion that it can't continue like that. Silvan Shalom Israeli Politician More Silvan Shalom Quotes 0
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. Silvan Shalom Israeli Politician More Silvan Shalom Quotes 0
One has to remember, ... that until 2000 there were representations here in Israel from Morocco , Tunisia , Qatar and Oman . There is no reason that they, and other countries, will not take positive steps. Silvan Shalom More Silvan Shalom Quotes 0
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, ... After the Gaza pullout, the time is ripe also in the eyes of the public and it is also easier at the moment to do this than it was in the past. Silvan Shalom More Silvan Shalom Quotes 0
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 Muslim and Arab countries. Silvan Shalom More Silvan Shalom Quotes 0
[At the meeting,] we also discussed the possibility of a meeting between Prime Minister Sharon and President (Pervez) Musharraf. This has not been decided, we will know in the coming days if it will happen, ... But even if it doesn't happen, I think the relations with Pakistan have moved to a much higher level. Silvan Shalom More Silvan Shalom Quotes 0
[Alouf Benn is the diplomatic editor of Israel's] Ha'aretz ... full diplomatic relationship with Pakistan. Silvan Shalom More Silvan Shalom Quotes 0
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. Silvan Shalom More Silvan Shalom Quotes 0
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 terrorist organizations. Silvan Shalom More Silvan Shalom Quotes 0
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 very interested to be the third party. Silvan Shalom More Silvan Shalom Quotes 0
Starting from that moment, all the responsibility will devolve onto the Egyptians and also the multinational force, which is supposed to supervise. Silvan Shalom More Silvan Shalom Quotes 0
Israel was not in any way involved in what happened with Arafat. The Palestinians know this, the Arabs know this, Arafat's family knows this, ... This matter is inflammatory ... and I think it is important that this be taken off the agenda immediately. Silvan Shalom More Silvan Shalom Quotes 0
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 ... I'm much in favor of it. Silvan Shalom More Silvan Shalom Quotes 0
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. Silvan Shalom More Silvan Shalom Quotes 0
It is time to put an end to conspiracy theories against Israel. Silvan Shalom More Silvan Shalom Quotes 0