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...
accepted arafat buried people september since statements
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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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.
almost both carry impossible israeli mission moving plates politics sharon speak
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.
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Israel is not going to tolerate these acts as we move into this very sensitive period. They either bring them to justice or we bring justice to them.
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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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These are the large settlement blocs, they will be strengthened.
fence fulfilled whatsoever
There would be no fence whatsoever if Palestinians fulfilled their obligation,
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Europe supports Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and the Palestinian Authority. It's the wrong decision, at the wrong time, to the wrong address.
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The response that we got was heavy gunfire, more gunfire,