Cease-fire is important, but it can last only for a very, very, very short time.

There is no taboo after this assassination and no one of the Palestinian leaders has immunity anymore, ... It shows once again the necessity to collect the illegal weapons and to dismantle the infrastructure of terrorist organizations.

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.

Cease-fire is important, but it can last only for a very, very, very short time.

In my view, Arafat is the only Palestinian in the world that isn't willing to have an independent Palestinian state.

The security fence is reversible. Human lives are irreversible.

It's not a democracy here, it's the Middle East.