What I, as the prime minister of the present government of Israel, started to do, is first to tackle the longest part of the Arab-Israeli conflict, the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.

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

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

It is the duty of the government to guarantee maximum security, and this is not an easy task.

I'm not saying Christopher Pyne and all them are my enemies, they're great blokes, shouted me a few beers a couple of times which I like, it's - we have got to sit down with the people like that. We have got to sit down with people like that and negotiate and work our way through. If we don't do that then we're just going to continue the sins of the past.

Syria doesn't want to talk with us on a bilateral basis, only under the auspices of the United States.

I, serial number 30743, Major General Yitzhak Rabin, am a soldier in the army of peace.