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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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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Until the review that is under way is completed, there will not be automatic transfers.
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We understand there are real needs, and we'll do what we can, but we can't just open up the borders immediately, because of security concerns. We'll do things incrementally.
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We understand the needs, and we have offered another option, but the Palestinians rejected this. We have had to take additional security steps because we have seen an escalation in terrorist activity.
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This is now totally different. This is a unilateral act. It is not within the framework of a U.N. resolution.
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The combination of extremist ideology, a warped understanding of reality and nuclear weapons is a combination that no-one in the international community can accept.
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He called for the destruction of our country, of another UN member, and we don't believe the international community can let this stand. We've raised the issue with the secretary general and at the Security Council.
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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,