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"Israel has an important principle: It is only Israel that is responsible for our security."
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"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."

"You still can't find Israel on a map of the Middle East in a Palestinian schoolbook."

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

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

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

"Israel, as the Jewish state, must disappear from the map."
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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."

"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."

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

"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."

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

"Only the change on the international scene, the crisis in the gulf, and the strong, firm position of the United States against aggression between two Arab countries created realities that led to the Madrid Peace Conference."

"Practically the only way to dry the swamp of radical Islam is through economic development and an improved standard of living."

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