But, more than anything, in the more than three years of this Government's existence, the Israeli people has proven that it is possible to make peace, that peace opens the door to a better economy and society; that peace is not just a prayer. Peace is first of all in our prayers, but it is also the aspiration of the Jewish people, a genuine aspiration for peace.

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

[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.

There is no way of finding the middle ground, even with the best intentions of the world. Our most sensible policy is to stall.

We must think differently, look at things in a different way. Peace requires a world of new concepts, new definitions.

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

I don't believe that in the name of the holiness of the city you have to put barbed wires, machine gun nests, mine pins and everything of that, in the name of the holiness of Jerusalem.