This is something that Netanyahu has been trying to do for a while, with both the European and American efforts. He has chosen settlement and the destruction of the foundation of the peace accords.
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Netanyahu is pressured easily, gets into a panic, and loses his senses... to run a country like Israel a leader needs to have reason and judgment and nerves of steel, two traits he does not have.
Bibi Netanyahu believes our people are strong. We will be ready for painful concessions but only when and if we have a partner we can live together with, who also wants to live in peace.
The real question is who will lead the government and to where ... and on this question a unity government headed by Netanyahu is not the answer,
If Mr. Netanyahu is looking for a pretext to stop the negotiations and undermine the process, he will always find one. This attack, which we have condemned, should serve as an incentive to accelerate the negotiations,
To run this country, to deal with the most complex and difficult problems, you need judgment and nerves of steel. He (Netanyahu) has neither of these two things,
Mr. Netanyahu and Mr. Arafat are at cross-purposes here. Mr. Netanyahu wants to tell his people that he has achieved a better agreement, with much better safeguards for Israelis. But the more he brags about his own achievement, the less desirable this agreement becomes for Mr. Arafat. Unless the two sides can indeed make the political decision to reach an agreement despite their own internal political achievements, we won't have an agreement.
If Netanyahu had taken action on time to stop the disengagement plan, I wouldn't be here running. He didn't stand up when it became apparent that there was corruption. The only ones who stood up were a few rebels who proved that they couldn't be bought.
We have a U. S. administration that's seeking to see the process as crisis management here and there. They're not telling Mr. Netanyahu to stop it.
It seems that now Arafat may have an incentive to sign the agreement. Before, he was concerned that it would give Netanyahu the image of a peacemaker and would get him off the hook of international pressure. But now it seems such a thing won't happen even if Netanyahu does sign a Hebron agreement.
It will take much more than one visit by Madeleine Albright to deal with the damages inflicted on the peace process by the government of Mr. Netanyahu.
At the outset, Netanyahu planted land mines in the agreement, that they would explode down the road and will destroy the agreement, because generally he doesn't want it.
JERUSALEM, Sept. 22 (Xinhuanet) -- Israeli defense minister Shaul Mofaz on Thursday sharply criticized former finance minister Benjamin Netanyahu, saying his plan to move up the date of the Likud party leader elections could destroy the party, local newspaper Haaretz reported on its online edition. The economic policies of the last few years, brought forth by Benjamin Netanyahu, succeeded in damaging the Likud, ... The poverty, the rift in the party and the blows to the poorer classes - these struck every corner and thousands of voters of the Likud.
Netanyahu warned Arafat again Tuesday that if he did not clamp down on Islamic militants, they would destroy him. Fighting terrorism is important not only for peace but for the Palestinian Authority itself, ... because it is riding a tiger that will one day devour it.
It's really unfortunate that the only thing that Mr. Netanyahu has decided to stop is the peace process with us.
Israel is a special country and to lead it one needs a level head and nerves of steel. He (Netanyahu) has neither of those,