The struggle to get weapons is continuous, but the United States will aid us, if it finds Israel displaying a willingness for peace.

Israel has an important principle: It is only Israel that is responsible for our security.

It is not worth the paper it is written on unless it is backed by the kind of force that will make the other side consider the penalties too heavy to break the agreement.

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

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

I considered the prevention of war as the test of our security policy; in addition to being able to rapidly and forcefully end any war forced upon us.

Steps toward a rapprochement between Israel and the Arab states create a process that turns economics into the moving force that shapes the regional relations instead of nationalist interests that were dominant in the past.