It is not worth the paper it is written on unless it is backed by the kind of force that will make the other side consider the penalties too heavy to break the agreement.

This rally must send a message to the Israeli people, to the Jewish people around the world, to the many people in the Arab world, and indeed to the entire world, that the Israeli people want peace, support peace. For this, I thank you.

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

Peace with Syria would provide more security than a few settlements on the Golan.

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.

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

You have got to sit down and talk to people. You can't understand people from a distance.