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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those around him and those who carry out acts of terror ... will pay the full price.
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We will put them on trial and they will have to serve their sentences in a real prison, not a mock prison, and pay for the crime they have committed.
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We can't allow to pay ... with the blood of our people and the blood of our citizens for some illusion of stability or restraint in the Middle East,
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It is totally unacceptable and intolerable that when they have elections in the Palestinian Authority, we will have to pay the price in casualties because of the competition between various groups.
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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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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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The militants will face Israeli courts and pay for the crimes they committed.
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We will not enter into peace negotiations with people who advertise their desire to destroy us.
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We impose on ourselves a policy of self-restraint in order to try and end this 10-month stretch of violence that is leading both sides to nowhere, ... Therefore there is a possibility to make a decision here ... to go to the negotiating table, not on the battlefield. I can tell you we are willing to make painful compromises for that.
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These, definitely, Arafat controls, ... I mean, if he wanted, he could stop those kinds of incitement. And we see today, in, you know, the tragic deaths of the two youths, a result of such incitement taking place by the Palestinian Authority.
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These conditions are nonnegotiable. It is not whether there will be a short-term cease-fire or a long-term cease-fire. It is not whether they want to eliminate us now or if they will wait 20 years to do it. A democratic victory does not provide legitimacy or a quick dry-cleaning service to a terrorist organization.
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The tectonic plates of Israeli politics are moving to the center. Because Sharon could speak to both the right and the left, he could carry out this almost impossible mission of disengagement.
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The tectonic plates of Israeli politics are moving to the center, ... Because Sharon could speak to both the right and the left, he could carry out this almost impossible mission of disengagement.
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The time, method -- the ways by which this will take place -- will be decided separately, and the security services will continue to monitor the situation and make the recommendation about the proper action as they have done in the past.