Silvan Shalom Quotes

One has to remember,.. That until 2000 there were representations here in Israel from Morocco, Tunisia, Qatar and Oman. There is no reason that they, and other countries, will not take positive steps.

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I am sure that this meeting will be followed by more meetings in the future. We hope that finally it will lead to full diplomatic relations with Pakistan as we would like it with all Muslim and Arab countries

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I think that this is the appropriate time for all the Muslim and Arab countries to reconsider their relations with Israel,.. I think that it will be a very positive signal to the Israeli public opinion and to the Palestinian public opinion that there are some fruits from this withdrawal from Gaza.

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The Egyptian president is expected to arrive. We think he will probably come at the time of the marking of the decade since Rabin's murder. But we want the visit to have also bilateral implications

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If we would want at a later time to permit the entry and exit from Rafah to Egypt, and smoothly, we would want a third party there. There is no doubt that the Europeans are very interested to be the third party

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We have the responsibility to protect our people and that's why we're building this fence. We've suffered from 19,000 terrorist attacks during the last three years.

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

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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.

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