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.

Practically the only way to dry the swamp of radical Islam is through economic development and an improved standard of living.

We do not celebrate the death of our enemies.

[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.

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

One of my theories about why we've been cranky is Australians have been forced to focus on politics or party politics a little bit more than they normally would.

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