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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The third party will be on the Palestinian side of the frontier, and will be there to help beef up the Palestinian security presence.
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No one on the Israeli side has ever said that disengagement goes further than Gaza. Let's be very clear, this was a unilateral Israeli step.
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There is a concern on our side that the moneys transferred will come back to haunt us in the form of suicide bombings.
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Both sides agreed in discussions because of the changes in the costing that it was no longer feasible.
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We found solutions both sides can live with. The challenge was to find a successful balance between the very real security threats faced by Israel, while providing maximum movement in and out of Gaza for the Palestinians. I think it's a win-win agreement.
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We found solutions both sides can live with.
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This is a measured response. We will respond to what happens on their side and leave as many options open as possible.
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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,