Silvan Shalom Quotes

• In my view, Arafat is the only Palestinian in the world that isn't willing to have an independent Palestinian state.

  Silvan Shalom

  Independent, Views, World

  Interview with Elizabeth Farnsworth, www.pbs.org. February 1, 2004.

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• There is no taboo after this assassination and no one of the Palestinian leaders has immunity anymore, ... It shows once again the necessity to collect the illegal weapons and to dismantle the infrastructure of terrorist organizations.

  Silvan Shalom

  Organization, Leader, Weapons

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• We are not going to damage our safety and our security. We're not going to give those extremists the privilege to come so freely to Israel in order to carry out more attacks against us and kill us one day after another.

  Silvan Shalom

  Israel, Order, Safety

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• We have been in the territories since 1967. In 2002, we had sometimes three or four suicide attacks every day. We came to the conclusion that it can't continue like that.

  Silvan Shalom

  Suicide, Four, Territory

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• There's no preventative measure between the Palestinians, between those terrorists to the state of Israel.

  Silvan Shalom

  Israel, States, Terrorist

  "Extended Interview With Silvan Shalom". "PBS NewsHour" with Elizabeth Farnsworth, www.pbs.org. February 1, 2004.

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• Suicide bombers caused us more than 50 percent of our casualties. The fence works. There is a decline in the number of those terrorist attacks against Israelis.

  Silvan Shalom

  Suicide, Numbers, Bombers

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• The Palestinians are not willing to do anything, they're not willing to make the strategic decision to dismantle the infrastructure of terrorist organizations.

  Silvan Shalom

  Organization, Decision, Infrastructure

  "PBS NewsHour" with Elizabeth Farnsworth, www.pbs.org. February 1, 2004.

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• No one can compare us to the apartheid regime. It's not like in South Africa between the blacks and the whites who belong to the same nation, or in Berlin where you find parents living on the eastern side and their children in the western side.

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  Children, Parent, Berlin

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• Most of the international community, most of the countries around the world, don't want any side, any party to take unilateral steps. They would like that all of us to stick to the road map.

  Silvan Shalom

  Country, Party, Community

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• It's not a democracy here, it's the Middle East.

  Silvan Shalom

  Easter, Democracy, Middle East

  "PBS NewsHour" with Elizabeth Farnsworth, www.pbs.org. February 1, 2004.

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• In 1988, King Hussein of Jordan said that it doesn't take any connection any more to those territories, and he would like to split from those territories. So according to the international law, it doesn't belong to anyone.

  Silvan Shalom

  Kings, Law, Splits

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• I'd like to ask you: what you would prefer us to do? I'd like to ask my colleagues, would any other country act differently? I think the answer is very clear. No one would act differently.

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  Country, Thinking, Answers

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• Cease-fire is important, but it can last only for a very, very, very short time.

  Silvan Shalom

  Fire, Important, Lasts

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• We believe that we should come to an agreement with the Palestinians. But we need two to tango.

  Silvan Shalom

  Believe, Agreement, Two

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• The security fence is reversible. Human lives are irreversible.

  Silvan Shalom

  Fence, Human Life, Humans

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