Cease-fire is important, but it can last only for a very, very, very short time.
I'd like to ask you: what you would prefer us to do? I'd like to ask my colleagues, would any other country act differently? I think the answer is very clear. No one would act differently.
If the Palestinians will find a new channel that they can achieve their demands, they will have no incentive to resume the negotiations with us.
If we had built this fence on the 1967 borders, it would have been a political fence. But on this route, it is a security fence.
In 1988, King Hussein of Jordan said that it doesn't take any connection any more to those territories, and he would like to split from those territories. So according to the international law, it doesn't belong to anyone.
In Gaza, there are 22,000 employees paid by the Palestinian Authority, fully armed, working for the security forces of the Palestinian Authority.
In my view, Arafat is the only Palestinian in the world that isn't willing to have an independent Palestinian state.
Israel is a democracy; everyone can say what they would like to. But they are a very very small minority in Israeli public opinion.
It's not a democracy here, it's the Middle East.
It's not that we're going to separate our people into two parts. We would like the Palestinians to live there and we will live here.
Most of the international community, most of the countries around the world, don't want any side, any party to take unilateral steps. They would like that all of us to stick to the road map.
No one can compare us to the apartheid regime. It's not like in South Africa between the blacks and the whites who belong to the same nation, or in Berlin where you find parents living on the eastern side and their children in the western side.
Only three countries recognize the sovereignty of Jordan on those territories: Jordan itself, Britain, and Pakistan.
Suicide bombers caused us more than 50 percent of our casualties. The fence works. There is a decline in the number of those terrorist attacks against Israelis.
The fence is moveable. We moved a fence that we had with Egypt after we signed the peace treaty with them. We moved the fence with Jordan and Lebanon.
The Palestinians are not willing to do anything, they're not willing to make the strategic decision to dismantle the infrastructure of terrorist organizations.
The Palestinians will never, never implement their commitment to dismantle their infrastructure of terrorist organizations.
The security fence is reversible. Human lives are irreversible.
There's no preventative measure between the Palestinians, between those terrorists to the state of Israel.
They are afraid they will find themselves one day in one of the caves in Judea and Samaria one day with a bullet in their head.
We are not going to damage our safety and our security. We're not going to give those extremists the privilege to come so freely to Israel in order to carry out more attacks against us and kill us one day after another.
We believe that we should come to an agreement with the Palestinians. But we need two to tango.
We have been in the territories since 1967. In 2002, we had sometimes three or four suicide attacks every day. We came to the conclusion that it can't continue like that.
We have the responsibility to protect our people and that's why we're building this fence. We've suffered from 19,000 terrorist attacks during the last three years.
We will ease the life of Palestinians by giving them more industrial zones, more licenses to work in Israel and to stay overnight here.
We would be very happy to stop the building of the fence or destroy it in the future if we reach any kind of agreement with them.
We would like to ease the life of the Palestinians. I prepared a new plan that we call a positive agenda.
We'll build tunnels if necessary. But while you are building it you can face new problems while you are working.
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