90 percent, 85 to 90 percent of Israeli citizens in Judea-Samaria, in the West Bank, live in clusters, in urban blocks. Everybody understands that if we were to have a solution then those blocks would stay in Israel. And that's where you saw these cranes; that's where Israelis live. In the Jewish neighborhoods of Jerusalem, everybody understands, they will stay.

The people of Israel will have to be convinced that the Palestinians are ready for peace.

Hamas is responsible and Hamas should held accountable for civilian deaths.

Iran is a country that talks about, denies the Holocaust, promises to wipe out Israel, is engaged in terror throughout the world. This is a regime that is giving vent to the worst impulses that you see right now in the Middle East. They deny the rights of women, deny democracy, brutalize their own people, don't give freedom of religion.

Our friendship will weather the current disagreement as well, to grow even stronger in the future.

I don't think that anyone should doubt Israel's determination to defend itself against terror and destruction.

The Israelis wanted to sabotage the Palestinian - Palestinian reconciliation.