Silvan Shalom Quotes

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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.
• We believe that we should come to an agreement with the Palestinians. But we need two to tango.
• Cease-fire is important, but it can last only for a very, very, very short time.
• 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…
• 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…
• It's not a democracy here, it's the Middle East.
• 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…
• 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…
• The Palestinians are not willing to do anything, they're not willing to make the strategic decision to dismantle the infrastructure of terrorist organizations.
• 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…
• There's no preventative measure between the Palestinians, between those terrorists to the state of Israel.
• 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…
• 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…
• The security fence is reversible. Human lives are irreversible.
• We would like to ease the life of the Palestinians. I prepared a new plan that we call a positive agenda.
• The Palestinians will never, never implement their commitment to dismantle their infrastructure of terrorist organizations.
• 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…

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