We have the right to ensure our security, especially when it is possible to reach agreement on a political solution.

Enough of blood and tears. Enough!

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

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.

I'll continue to carry out whatever we are committed to. Whatever we believe leads us to a permanent solution the way we want it, the way I want it.

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.

We have the right to ensure our security, especially when it is possible to reach agreement on a political solution.