Ra'anan Gissin
Ra'anan Gissin
Raanan Gissin is an Israeli political scientist, analyst and consultant specializing in the Arab-Israeli conflict. He was senior adviser to Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and a frequent spokesman for the Israeli government on CNN, MSNBC, and Fox...
OK, let's say they sever relations. And then what? And then what?
everybody israel people wants
Everybody's concerned. The whole people of Israel are concerned. The whole world is concerned. Everybody wants to see him get better.
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It will be their responsibility to stop terrorists. To the extent that will be fulfilled, we can move forward.
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tactical change whereby they (militants) refrain from activity in Gaza and intensify activity in the West Bank.
law
It is very important now to have a lot of patience, self-restraint, and cool-headedness, ... In other words, no one should take the law in their hands.
arrested force means missions people
It means many of the missions of the force have been accomplished already and we have arrested the people that we want,
shown
We've shown what we can do with settlements.
exercising
What we're doing now is exercising our way to self-defense as the U.S. is doing in Afghanistan,
authority extend hand watch
We extend a hand for peace, I think now the whole world can watch and see what the Palestinian Authority is instigating in response.
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We're not going to pay with Israeli lives while they are experimenting in trying to reach understandings with terror organizations and they continue to carry out terror attacks against us.
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until now could play the left against the right.
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was intended to send a very clear signal -- either Arafat brings justice to these people and fights terrorism, or we will have to.
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We're engaged not in a single event, but in a complex and critical process. But we think there is enough common ground to reach an agreement on some of these issues.
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Today's action was intended to try and stop this new wave of suicide and homicide bombings,