I believe that the Jewish state will exist forever.

Aliyah is the central goal of the State of Israel.

Even today I am willing to volunteer to do the dirty work for Israel, to have everyone hate us, to pull the rug from underneath the feet of the Diaspora Jews, so that they will be forced to run to us crying. Even if it means blowing up one or two synagogues here and there, I don’t care.

We extend our hand towards peace. Our people are committed to peace. We know that peace entails painful compromise for both sides.

What you see from here is not what you see from there.

I begin with the basic conviction that Jews and Arabs can live together. I have repeated that at every opportunity, not for journalists and not for popular consumption, but because I have never believed differently or thought differently, from my childhood on. ... I know that we are both inhabitants of the land, and although the state is Jewish, that does not mean that Arabs should not be full citizens in every sense of the word.

For me, peace should provide security to the Jewish people.