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...
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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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The Arab countries ought to be working to convince Palestinian Authority President Yasser Arafat to halt the violence and restart the negotiations,
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It's quite obvious that the lack of action by the Palestinian Authority to dismantle the terrorist infrastructure is one of the main reasons these actions are still taking place. The other thing wrong is the assumption that if the groups are allowed into the elections they can be co-opted. The ones paying the price are us.
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The message that we're trying to get across is that if the Palestinian Authority wants to take care of its people, the first thing it must do is free them from the shackles of terrorism.
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Condemnation is very nice, but it won't bring back to life the people who were killed. The Palestinian Authority has to take concrete steps to make arrests, to put people behind bars, to put obstacles in the way of the terrorists.
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Israel intends to withdraw from the Palestinian areas when and where the Palestinian Authority decides to observe the cease-fire.
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When there will be a let-up in terrorist attacks, when the Palestinian Authority decides finally to take action against these groups, to disarm them ... then we will not have to bring justice to them.
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In those places where the Palestinian Authority fails to deal with terrorists, we will have to do it - and we can't wait.
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If the Palestinian Authority cannot impose law and order in the most basic manner that is required to have a functioning civil society, how do they expect to establish a Palestinian state living peacefully side by side with Israel?
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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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What we're doing now is exercising our way to self-defense as the U.S. is doing in Afghanistan,
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We've shown what we can do with settlements.
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Our pursuit of terrorists does not distinguish by political affiliation,