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"I would like Israel to be a Jewish state, and therefore not to annex over 2 million Palestinians who live in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip to Israel, which will make Israel a bi-national state."
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"You still can't find Israel on a map of the Middle East in a Palestinian schoolbook."

"Jerusalem Syndrome is actually a rare psychological condition that occurs to some visitors to the Middle East. They get to Israel and just snap."

"There is no comparison between the training here and the training in Israel."

"So I decided the only place I can speak to the world is from outside Israel."

"Israel cannot afford to stand against the entire world and be denounced as the aggressor."

"We do not rejoice in victories. We rejoice when a new kind of cotton is grown and when strawberries bloom in Israel."

"I think Israel will think one thousands times before invading Gaza."

"But if Sharon wants to occupy Gaza, let him come. Israel will pay the price."

"The main points were: one, the amount of Israel's nuclear weapons, how many Israel had, that no one could predict or know, including the CIA. They were thinking about a number like 10 or 15. But I came out with a number between 150 to 200."
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"It is not worth the paper it is written on unless it is backed by the kind of force that will make the other side consider the penalties too heavy to break the agreement."


"A diplomatic peace is not yet the real peace. It is an essential step in the peace process leading towards a real peace."


"We must think differently, look at things in a different way. Peace requires a world of new concepts, new definitions."


"No Arab ruler will consider the peace process seriously so long as he is able to toy with the idea of achieving more by the way of violence."


"Israel is no longer a people that dwells alone, and has to join the global journey toward peace, reconciliation and international cooperation."


"I believe that it is my responsibility as the prime minister of Israel to do whatever can be done to exploit the unique opportunities that lie ahead of us to move towards peace. Not everything can be done by one act."
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