Raanan Gissin Quotes (129 Quotes)

Tomorrow, a three-way meeting will be coordinated involving senior echelons of both sides, headed on the Israeli side by Ariel Sharon, for the purpose of bringing about a cease-fire and immediate implementation of the Tenet plan.

If ... the doctors say that he needs to be transferred to a certain hospital and then be returned back, Israel will not impose any conditions, Israel will not impose any restrictions.

Free elections will be conducted when there is a cessation of the violence.

He is fully lucid, in full control.

It is a serious mistake, this visit could have consequences for our links that could be hard to repair. Ankara took its most meaningless and untimely step in its diplomatic history. There will be a cost to this aimless diplomacy.

One terrorist attack or two terrorist attacks are not going to sway them.

The government is determined to continue with the disengagement plan, at the same time will continue to fight terrorism as they do on a daily basis,

This is his prerogative, and hopefully he will spend the time that he's going to spend in the territories to try and really put an effort -- all effort that he didn't put up to now -- to stop terrorist activity, to dismantle the terrorist infrastructure, to call upon his people to cease from violent terrorism and incitement.

We're engaged not in a single event, but in a complex and critical process. But we think there is enough common ground to reach an agreement on some of these issues.

One would have expected him to come out strongly against terror activities, against suicide and terror bombings, but he did not make that statement, ... He alluded to the fact that there are perhaps terrorist activities that he is against, but he did not come out as leader of the Palestinian people and say, 'We've got to stop it.'

The Arab countries ought to be working to convince Palestinian Authority President Yasser Arafat to halt the violence and restart the negotiations,

This attack was in Tel Aviv. Tomorrow, it may be in Berlin or in Paris or in London - countries that may vote against Iran on the issue its nuclear program.

If the Palestinian Authority cannot impose law and order in the most basic manner that is required to have a functioning civil society, how do they expect to establish a Palestinian state living peacefully side by side with Israel.

Do it directly to the population. We have to establish bypass roads to the Palestinian population that bypass a terrorist government.

And I think what happened last night signifies a major escalation in this phase of the war -- then we are entitled to take that kind of action on a broad spectrum in order to meet that threat and stem it and stop it.

At the level of terrorist activity, which is very high, and the scope of our counter activity, it is impossible in the present situation to reach seven days of complete quiet,

Israel is not going to tolerate these acts as we move into this very sensitive period. They either bring them to justice or we bring justice to them.

You know how many times he has said that, and what did we get in return Wave after wave of terrorist activity, ... We are sick and tired of words. He initiated this campaign 18 months ago. Why not turn to his own people and tell them to stop committing suicide, to stop sending those suicide bombers which he incites

These conditions are nonnegotiable. It is not whether there will be a short-term cease-fire or a long-term cease-fire. It is not whether they want to eliminate us now or if they will wait 20 years to do it. A democratic victory does not provide legitimacy or a quick dry-cleaning service to a terrorist organization.

The tectonic plates of Israeli politics are moving to the center. Because Sharon could speak to both the right and the left, he could carry out this almost impossible mission of disengagement.

There would be no fence whatsoever if Palestinians fulfilled their obligation,

Anyone who participates in this government must renounce terrorism, must abandon the path of terrorism, must abandon incitement and the culture of hatred (and) must disarm the terrorist groups.

He has to take real action. Declarations won't do. They won't get him off the hook. This time it's a moment of truth, and lies will not cover up.

Their celebration is a bit premature and exaggerated the prime minister is very well.

People went to the hospital to touch base with the man and to sustain the hope that he will wake up. The key is to never lose hope. Maybe this 78th birthday is a good opportunity to get up and see what's happening and take the necessary steps that we're all wishing for him to take.

I want to judge Arafat by his deeds not by his words.

The network of terrorist connections is so evident and so clear, action must be taken against it.

We can't allow to pay ... with the blood of our people and the blood of our citizens for some illusion of stability or restraint in the Middle East,

To think that they will make a declaration and we will make a move, those days are over, ... Every time we took unilateral steps (in the past), we would have a surge in terrorist attacks.

sends a very clear signal. There will be no disengagement when we are fighting these kinds of terrorist actions.

What the court in The Hague wants is that we simply have no right to self-defense. It creates a dangerous precedent.

From here we go only to the road map to peace, or we stay put. It depends very much what measures the Palestinians will take and whether they will, for the first time in a lifetime, take their destiny into their hands.

There is no free lunch. The man never mended his ways. He did not stop terrorist activities and put all his efforts on behalf of peace. He continued to ... organize terrorist activities.

The message that we're trying to get across is that if the Palestinian Authority wants to take care of its people, the first thing it must do is free them from the shackles of terrorism.

Militants are firing freely every night, so we are drawing a red line. Anyone who crosses into that area once the program is implemented is fair game.

We hope the international community takes these comments about wiping Israel off the map very seriously and wakes up to the nature of this extremist regime. Iran's nuclear program and its support of international terrorism are not only a danger for Israel but for the entire Western civilization.

It's quite obvious that the lack of action by the Palestinian Authority to dismantle the terrorist infrastructure is one of the main reasons these actions are still taking place. The other thing wrong is the assumption that if the groups are allowed into the elections they can be co-opted. The ones paying the price are us.

In the presence of his doctor, and upon his advice, he said he should be taken to the hospital.

He's fought many battles in his life and won them all. We hope that he will win this battle as well.

When he attacks Israel, this is something the Arab world can agree upon. He has been criticized for the destruction and carnage he's causing the Muslim nation. He's looking for another justification... . Criticizing Israel sounds more politically correct.

Sixteen of our citizens are lying dead because Arafat, the Palestinian Authority have taken no action whatsoever to stop terrorist activity ... and therefore, all this talk of reforms are useless and a waste of time, ... As long as Arafat does not perform, there can be no reforms that will bring about an end to this senseless killing.

This just corroborates what we have been saying all along that Arafat does not take any measure whatsoever in order to dismantle the terrorist infrastructure, ... Despite all the declarations and despite all the attempts to convince the world that he's fighting terror, Arafat has done nothing.

No doubt some positive steps have been taken, but I would say, necessary but insufficient.

Either he's in control and the elected and selected leader of his people, and he takes full responsibility for actions emanating from that territory, ... or he is incapable of doing it or doesn't want to do it, then maybe he should be replaced by someone who can do it.

There isn't a religious question here. This is a question of, 'Are you going to allow someone who harbors terrorists to go free or do you impose certain restrictions on someone who supports terrorism'

We will not enter into peace negotiations with people who advertise their desire to destroy us.

We had no intention of striking his home or his compound. ... These were not targeted, I want to make that very clear, ... We have destroyed his helicopter and we attacked the landing pad ... and the garage of the helicopter, just a very clear signal that he will have to pay a price if he doesn't comply and stand by the agreements he signed.

The attack indicates that unless there is decisive and sustained effort taken to dismantle the terrorist organization, it will be impossible to move towards normalizations and towards political negotiations. That's the message of today's attack, ... And I think the responsibility on that lies with the Palestinian Authority.

The composition and structure of the Palestinian government is an internal issue,

We want to make it very clear that what Arafat doesn't do, we will do. If he doesn't dismantle the terrorist infrastructure, we do it. If he allows his forces to continue in support of those squads who are firing mortars against us, if he does not dismantle the mortar factories and the human bomb factories that are producing the suicide bombers, we will do it.