We can never totally return to the indefensible pre-1967 borders, ... We simply cannot afford to make Israel 9 miles wide again at its center. We can't allow the Palestinians to be a couple miles from Tel Aviv's Ben Gurion Airport in the age of shoulder-fire missiles with the capacity to shoot down jumbo jets. But that doesn't mean we must remain in every corner of the West Bank or in Gaza, where fewer than 10,000 Jews, living next to 1.3 million Palestinians, have been protected by twice as many soldiers.
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One should judge the deeds and not the declarations. We have to wait and see if the new Cabinet will, in fact, be sworn in and how it will act, taking into account Arafat's staunch resistance to it and his capacity to undermine any process of reform.
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We are closely monitoring developments in these difficult hours and our eyes, and those of the entire world, are directed toward the hospital in the hope of seeing the prime minister, who has emerged from so many previous battles, emerging from this battle as well and taking his seat here.
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The president of Iran, with all of his statements, is a heinous anti-Semitic phenomenon. He is an Israel-hater. We must prevent Iran from reaching a technological know-how with everything that entails, and the international community has the tools to deal with this.
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Disengagement is a response to certain demographic realities, ... Within a few years, due to the higher Arab birth rate, Jews will become a minority in the area between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea. I don't want Israel to be South Africa because we don't believe in apartheid. We simply have to separate from the Palestinians so that we can control our own destinies.
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We will not negotiate with a government that does not keep to its most basic commitment fighting terror.
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