There is no way of finding the middle ground, even with the best intentions of the world. Our most sensible policy is to stall.

We must think differently, look at things in a different way. Peace requires a world of new concepts, new definitions.

We did not think that [Egyptian President] Nasser wanted war. The two divisions he sent to Sinai on May 14 would not have been sufficient to launch an offensive against Israel. He knew it and we knew it.

I think the fact that we have been focussing on politics quite a lot and the tumult of politics rather than what we should be doing in terms of policy has made, I think, voters quite grumpy.

A diplomatic peace is not yet the real peace. It is an essential step in the peace process leading towards a real peace.

But, more than anything, in the more than three years of this Government's existence, the Israeli people has proven that it is possible to make peace, that peace opens the door to a better economy and society; that peace is not just a prayer. Peace is first of all in our prayers, but it is also the aspiration of the Jewish people, a genuine aspiration for peace.

We'll fight terror like there's no peace, and make peace like there's no terror.