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Portrait of Silvan Shalom

Silvan Shalom

(1958) Diplomat Israel

18 quotes in 124 categories

Silvan Shalom is a diplomat from Israel.

Quick Facts About Silvan Shalom

Born: August 4, 1958
Nationality: Israel
Profession: Diplomat
Spouse: Judy Shalom Nir-Mozes

About Silvan Shalom

Zion Silvan Shalom is an Israeli politician who served as a member of the Knesset for Likud between 1992 and 2015. He held several prominent ministerial positions, including Vice Prime Minister and Minister of the Interior. He resigned on 24 December 2015 following allegations of sexual harassment. Later on, the Attorney-General closed this investigation and said these claims were unsubstantiated.

Biography source: Wikipedia

Quotes by Silvan Shalom

We believe that we should come to an agreement with the Palestinians. But we need two to tango.

Agreement

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In my view, Arafat is the only Palestinian in the world that isn't willing to have an independent Palestinian state.

Arafat

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We have been in the territories since 1967. In 2002, we had sometimes three or four suicide attacks every day. We came…

Conclusion

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

Fire

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There's no preventative measure between the Palestinians, between those terrorists to the state of Israel.

Israel

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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…

Attacks

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No one can compare us to the apartheid regime. It's not like in South Africa between the blacks and the whites who…

Apartheid

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Most of the international community, most of the countries around the world, don't want any side, any party to take unilateral steps.…

Around the world

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The Palestinians are not willing to do anything, they're not willing to make the strategic decision to dismantle the infrastructure of terrorist…

Decision

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The security fence is reversible. Human lives are irreversible.

Cybersecurity

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

Agenda

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In 1988, King Hussein of Jordan said that it doesn't take any connection any more to those territories, and he would like…

Connections

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

Democracy

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

Commitment

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I'd like to ask you: what you would prefer us to do? I'd like to ask my colleagues, would any other country…

Answers

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There is no taboo after this assassination and no one of the Palestinian leaders has immunity anymore, ... It shows once again…

Assassination

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We are not going to damage our safety and our security. We're not going to give those extremists the privilege to come…

Cybersecurity

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Suicide bombers caused us more than 50 percent of our casualties. The fence works. There is a decline in the number of…

Bombers

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