In the midst of fighting there is no place for public debate.

We accept every form or way to talk to the Syrians how to achieve peace.

We have to recognize that there is a Palestinian entity, that the PLO and the Palestinian Authority has to run their life.

[Israel will] create in the course of the next 10 or 20 years conditions which would attract natural and voluntary migration of the refugees from the Gaza Strip and the west Bank to Jordan. To achieve this we have to come to agreement with King Hussein and not with Yasser Arafat.

We will not leave the Golan Heights, not even in exchange for a peace treaty. We will be ready for a limited compromise and it does not have to be in territorial terms.

I invite President Assad to come to Jerusalem and to speak with me, with our parliament, with whomever he wants to speak in Israel and in the territories among the Palestinians.

I admire King Hussein his courage in leading his country for a long time.