Most of the international community, most of the countries around the world, don't want any side, any party to take unilateral steps. They would like that all of us to stick to the road map.

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

We are not going to damage our safety and our security. We're not going to give those extremists the privilege to come so freely to Israel in order to carry out more attacks against us and kill us one day after another.

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

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.

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

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