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

The security fence is reversible. Human lives are irreversible.

We believe that we should come to an agreement with the Palestinians. But we need two to tango.

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

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.

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.

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.