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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I'm sure there will be haggling and back-and-forth going on, ... but eventually it will be resolved because I think the pressure from the people and ... the deterioration in the situation on the ground, as far as the security, calls for it.
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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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I must say I have to be a little skeptical, because Arafat made these statements before. He made it on the 27th of September when he accepted a cease-fire. We buried 67 people since then and 500 more were wounded.
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We will not enter into peace negotiations with people who advertise their desire to destroy us.
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There's no reason in the world why we should provide the facilities for people to vote for an organization that calls for the destruction of Israel and will undermine the political process.
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People went to the hospital to sustain the hope that he will wake up. The key is never to lose hope.
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People wanted unity, apart from voting for Sharon, they wanted a government of national unity, ... People wanted restoration of personal security. I think that, a government of national unity can do.
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It means many of the missions of the force have been accomplished already and we have arrested the people that we want,
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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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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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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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This wasn't supposed to be the kind of protest these people promised and above all, these people defiled a synagogue,
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The human life of 1,000 people who died as a result of suicide bombings that emanated from this territory are not reversible.
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I'm not a doctor so don't ask me to engage in speculation. I think at this stage, the best thing not to engage in is speculation. This is the current status, he is undergoing surgery, he is in a stable condition.