Mark Regev Quotes (116 Quotes)

Israel supports the European position. We believe that the international community - through the UN Security Council - must present the Iranian regime with a clear dilemma, either they totally cease their nuclear weapons program, or they endanger their relationship with the outside world.

Turkey and Israel have no difference of opinion. We are continuing to work with Turkey and there is a working group dealing with this issue and we are looking at other alternatives.

If there is a financial crisis in the Palestinian Authority today, that is largely due to their irresponsible pocketbook electioneering.

The sad fact about the statement of the President of Iran is that he was correctly articulating the policy of his regime which has given hands-on support to the most extreme terrorist elements in the Middle East.

If you are outside the international community and you act like a pariah, you cannot complain that people treat you like a pariah.

As a result of yesterday's attacks we are taking defensive action. There is a temporary suspension of contacts between the Defense Ministry and military personnel and Palestinian counterparts.

The exact composition of the incoming Palestinian government is of lesser importance.

We understand the needs, and we have offered another option, but the Palestinians rejected this. We have had to take additional security steps because we have seen an escalation in terrorist activity.

Ultimately, Israel still hopes the Palestinian Authority will follow through on their own commitments to disarm these groups and that will make the necessity for Israeli action superfluous.

This is a slap in the face to the very principles upon which the Council of Europe was established, namely democracy, human rights and the rule of law.

The fear was that extremists would use porous borders to pour into Gaza to bring in explosives, weaponry cash, and that would energize the most extremist elements in the Gaza Strip instead of helping the moderates. I think this agreement that we have reached today has the right balance. It provides the maximum possible movement for Palestinians to move in and out of Gaza, as they desire and for goods to come in and out of Gaza, and at the same time for that to be balanced with the very real security concerns that everyone has.

If they continue to reject the international community's benchmarks they will find the Palestinian Authority will increasingly become a pariah regime in the international community.

We are only planning to build a police headquarters and some roads, there has been no decision to start working on the settlement itself.

Arresting a few activists in a particular atrocity is simply not enough. This group has to be thoroughly disarmed. If not, they will continue to wreak havoc, murdering innocent civilians and killing the chance for peace.

We're trying to send a message to the Palestinian leadership about how seriously we see Sunday's events, ... You can't have terror attacks like that, with Israelis gunned down, and expect business as usual.

We want the Palestinian leadership to understand that if they unilaterally abrogate signed agreements, Israel will move to defend its interests.

We've said to foreign governments, including the United States, that we are interested in the maximum possible access in and out of the Gaza Strip and will do everything possible to facilitate the flow of humanitarian supplies, bearing in mind Israel's security concerns.

We've been very clear, disengagement goes ahead. Everyone understands what this obscene terrorist was trying to do and we cannot let him do it.

It would surely be a pity if this positive momentum would stop and we would see a regression to the one-sided (European) position of the past.

We want to send a very clear and unequivocal message that after attacks like this it's not business as usual. We expect them to follow through on their promises -- that these armed gangs be disarmed. Our entire ability to move forward is based on that promise.

Israel believes that Iran has for too long been playing games with the international community and we support fully the decision to bring the Iranian nuclear program to the U.N. Security Council.

This is not a time for business as usual with the regime in Tehran,

There is a fundamental contradiction between building a democratic process and being armed and sworn to killing Israelis. How can the Palestinians talk about building institutions and laying the foundations for the future political state if they are still engaging in terrorist activities.

As long as extremists have the ability to torpedo the process of reconciliation and to launch attacks, we will be at their mercy.

We were not more wrong than anyone else.

No person involved in terrorism can use the election campaign as a way to receive immunity.

It is simply ludicrous to single out Israel for this issue when Israel is an open, free and egalitarian society, while ignoring the very real oppression against women in countries like Saudi Arabia and Sudan.

We hope these extremist comments by the Iranian president will make the international community open its eyes and abandon any illusions about this regime.

Israel believes that the Iranian nuclear program should be confronted by a broad and determined international coalition.

If through their stubbornness and short-sightedness and extremism, they isolate the Palestinian government and turn it into a pariah in the international community, they will have no one to blame but themselves.

The Palestinian leadership has no one to blame for this international isolation but itself through its stubbornness, short-sightedness and extremism.

Disengagement's opponents are against it for three reasons. One, they believe it will harm national security because it may be perceived by the Palestinians as a reward for terrorism, as the 2000 withdrawal from south Lebanon was. Two, they believe it's a great tragedy that people who have lived in Gaza for decades, who were encouraged by various Israeli governments to move there, are now being uprooted from their homes. Three, some of them -- though they downplay this reason because they know it doesn't sell -- believe ideologically that it's wrong to give away any part of the Land of Israel.

has expressed concerns about the situation to the government of Egypt, and we've been assured the current situation is temporary.

When you have these attacks you can't go on with business as usual. We want to send a clear message to the Palestinian leadership that they have to do more to prevent violence.

Ever since accepting the Road Map and the idea of a two-state solution in 2003, Sharon has realized that all settlements in Gaza would have to be dismantled under any final-status agreement. What Sharon has been emphasizing to his opponents is that by evacuating them now, he gets badly-needed brownie points with the international community, which loves the fact that we're withdrawing from Gaza.

We understand that a successful Gaza economy is a crucial ingredient in the overall success of what is now Palestinian Gaza. And the success of Gaza is a crucial factor in getting the peace process back on track.

Israel is a country under the rule of law and no people can consider themselves above the law.

The Israeli position is public and known. We say Jerusalem will be the united capital of Israel in the framework of a final peace deal,

He acted on behalf of 6 million people who could no longer defend themselves, ... The state of Israel, the Jewish people and all those who oppose racism recognized Simon Wiesenthal's unique contribution to making our planet a better place.

If money to the budget of the PA is cut off, it's incumbent on all of us to make a maximum effort to beef up direct humanitarian aid to alleviate hardship.

Israel will do nothing to impede humanitarian support for the Palestinian people.

We found solutions both sides can live with. The challenge was to find a successful balance between the very real security threats faced by Israel, while providing maximum movement in and out of Gaza for the Palestinians. I think it's a win-win agreement.

We have every intention to bring him to trial.

Simon Wiesenthal acted to bring justice to those who had escaped justice. In doing so, he was the voice of 6 million.

I think we should use the word cautious optimism.

We want to see maximum movement at the crossings, but that decision has to be weighed next to the very real security threats that there are, ... If we opened every crossing and there were a wave of suicide bombings, then we'd just have to close everything down again.

If a terrorist organization takes over the machinery of government, do you not have the legal option to try to give the political body taken over by a terrorist group the status of a terrorist organization

We have never said more than we have said in the case. This issue has been solved in a satisfactory way with the New Zealand government.

The problem isn't only the extreme and hateful language. It's that these statements actually reflect the policies of the regime that have been implemented over the years, such as sponsoring suicide bombers.

Israel doesn't make or break Palestinian governments -- that is not our job.