A solution of two national states - a Jewish state, Israel; an Arab state, Palestine. The Palestinians are our closest neighbors. I believe they may become our closest friends.

Historic justice has been done by killing Saddam.

If a problem has no solution, it may not be a problem, but a fact - not to be solved, but to be coped with over time.

I cannot go to elections with an open stomach. If you want to negotiate we have to conclude it before the elections. I cannot just start the negotiations [with Palestinians] saying we are ready to do this and that and not having any reply.

I am a president who also gives pardons. Usually my considerations are humane.

What should be the future of Israel? Is the land the most important choice, and for that reason to keep the whole of the land at any cost, or to have a partition and build the Jewish state on part of the land? And the other part?

Can any church help us to win a war? If you can't help us win a war, then please don't press us.