Silvan Shalom Quotes (95 Quotes)

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.

Today I call on my Arab and Muslim colleagues to 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,

Right now, even if I think that we have to go to a general election that will include the election ... for the Knesset, I think that we don't have enough time to do it,

I am certain that these relations, even if they are behind-the-scenes ties, will in the end thaw into public relations, with a much higher status than today.

Abu Mazen has to wake up and he has to take the correct strategic decision and start collecting illegal weapons and dismantling the terror organizations,

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

not to give the Palestinians the opportunity to try to arrange a big party next week in the United Nations.

These elections are an internal Palestinian matter, but I have reassured the secretary today that Israel will do everything in its power to ensure their smooth running.

We believe that Iran is trying to buy time ... so it can develop a nuclear bomb,

This is an earthquake which has taken us back 50 years and will lead to an upheaval.

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

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.

lay down in black-and-white that any organisation which calls for the destruction of Israel cannot participate in elections.

The question is not if they are going to hold that bomb in 2009 or 2010 or 2011, the question is when they will have the full knowledge,

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,

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

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,

a barbaric act by people who have no respect for holy sites.

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.

They need us for bringing pooling booths, they need us to give voters freedom of movement, to cancel those roadblocks and checkpoints, ... And we're not going to do it because Hamas is a terrorist organization that calls for the destruction of Israel.

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.

It could happen, ... But we need to see a timetable how we will start the peace process and how we will end.

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 foreign minister of China believed after his visit to Tehran that the Iranians are serious about they are planning to move this development or those efforts only in order to develop, let's say, nuclear energy, ... We know the truth. I think most of the world knows the truth.

a number unthinkable, even two years ago.

If the Palestinians will find a new channel that they can achieve their demands, they will have no incentive to resume the negotiations with us.

This government will not march or walk in two tracks in the same time in parallel. I mean terror by day and negotiation by night. If these terrorist contacts will continue, I think that we won't be able to continue at the same time with the peace process.

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

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.

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 past, we will overcome the last difficulties,

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

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.

The security fence is reversible. Human lives are irreversible.

I think that this is the appropriate time for all the Muslim and Arab countries to reconsider their relations with Israel, ... I think that it will be a very positive signal to the Israeli public opinion and to the Palestinian public opinion that there are some fruits from this withdrawal from Gaza.

I very much hope that those same good relations with the governments of the Arab world will lead to contacts with the people themselves.

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.

The first priority is the Palestinian elections which will hopefully bring about a Palestinian leadership with whom we can sit down and address all the issues on our agenda,

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,

I have already told (EU foreign policy chief) Javier Solana, if this model (of evacuating settlements) will work, and things will be calm and quiet, it will undoubtedly become a positive model for any future moves,

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

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

There is no doubt our situation is better today with regard to ties with the Muslim world,

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.

In my opinion, it is a quick fix to subdue the international pressure on it. They also want more support among the Palestinian people,

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 Egyptians didn't exactly succeed in stopping the transfer of weapons,

The fence is moveable. We moved a fence that we had with Egypt after we signed the peace treaty with them. We moved the fence with Jordan and Lebanon.

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 democratic process. If Gaza is indeed to be the positive model we all wish to see, then it is those who promote dialogue not violence who must be empowered.

According to our people, security and intelligence, they are very, very close. It may be only six months before they will have that full knowledge.