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

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.

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.

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.

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