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 are ready to compromise. We are ready to take calculated risks, but for a peace that will give us security.

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

We appreciate the efforts of the United States, of the president, of the secretary of state, and we are ready to find any form of talks, but we have to overcome the differences between Syria and Israel to reach peace.

[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.

The Government chose to give peace a chance. The Government chose to do something to achieve it.

Military cemeteries in every corner of the world are silent testimony to the failure of national leaders to sanctify human life.