Mark Regev
Mark Regev
Mark Regevis an Israeli diplomat and civil servant, and the Ambassador of Israel to the United Kingdom since April 2016. Prior to that, he was the chief spokesman for the Prime Minister of Israel, a position he held from 2007 to 2015. Originally from Australia, he moved to Israel in 1982...
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We hope these extremist comments by the Iranian president will make the international community open its eyes and abandon any illusions about this regime.
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We hope that the organized international community will, through the vehicle of the Security Council, present the extremist regime in Tehran with a clear dilemma. Either they totally cease their nuclear weapons development program or they seriously endanger their relationship with the community of nations.
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As long as extremists have the ability to torpedo the process of reconciliation and to launch attacks, we will be at their mercy.
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It appears the problem with these extremists is that they followed through on their violent declarations with violent actions.
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The fear was that extremists would use porous borders to pour into Gaza to bring in explosives, weaponry cash, and that would energize the most extremist elements in the Gaza Strip instead of helping the moderates. I think this agreement that we have reached today has the right balance. It provides the maximum possible movement for Palestinians to move in and out of Gaza, as they desire and for goods to come in and out of Gaza, and at the same time for that to be balanced with the very real security concerns that everyone has.
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We welcome the Russian statement that they are re-evaluating and they expect to continue any such future cooperation also in coordination with us.
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It would surely be a pity if this positive momentum would stop and we would see a regression to the one-sided (European) position of the past.
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Israel supports the European position. We believe that the international community - through the UN Security Council - must present the Iranian regime with a clear dilemma, either they totally cease their nuclear weapons program, or they endanger their relationship with the outside world.
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Things like what happened today happen because terrorist groups remain armed.
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The whole process of reconciliation between us and the Palestinians is based on the principle that terrorist groups will be disarmed. Unfortunately, things like what happened today happen because terrorist groups remain armed.
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The sad fact about the statement of the President of Iran is that he was correctly articulating the policy of his regime which has given hands-on support to the most extreme terrorist elements in the Middle East.
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And the sad truth is that, today, unfortunately, the Palestinians are just not up to the challenge of policing their own border and preventing extremist, terrorist elements from coming in to the Gaza Strip,
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We have expressed our concern to both sides.
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We have every reason to believe that the new pope is building on the foundation that the previous pope already built, and we will see a further strengthening of our relationship.