Silvan Shalom
Silvan Shalom
Zion Silvan Shalomis an Israeli politician who served as a member of the Knesset for Likud between 1992 and 2015. He held several prominent ministerial positions, including being Vice Prime Minister and Minister of the Interior. He resigned on 24 December 2015 following allegations of sexual harassment leveled by 11 women...
NationalityIsraeli
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth4 October 1958
CountryIsrael
egypt fence jordan moved peace signed treaty
The fence is moveable. We moved a fence that we had with Egypt after we signed the peace treaty with them. We moved the fence with Jordan and Lebanon.
discuss egypt european favor forward open passage third union vice
If we go forward and there will be an open passage from Rafah into Egypt and vice versa, we will need supervision of a third party. We will discuss as a possibility European Union involvement ... I'm much in favor of it,
agreement consider egyptians months opening passage reached six wait
We reached an agreement with the Egyptians and the Palestinians that we will wait six more months before we consider the opening of the Rafah passage for two ways,
egyptians force onto responsibility starting supposed
Starting from that moment, all the responsibility will devolve onto the Egyptians and also the multinational force, which is supposed to supervise,
egyptians exactly stopping succeed transfer
The Egyptians didn't exactly succeed in stopping the transfer of weapons,
decade egyptian expected marking president since time visit
The Egyptian president is expected to arrive. We think he will probably come at the time of the marking of the decade since Rabin's murder. But we want the visit to have also bilateral implications,
employees forces fully paid security
In Gaza, there are 22,000 employees paid by the Palestinian Authority, fully armed, working for the security forces of the Palestinian Authority.
arrange nations next opportunity party united week
not to give the Palestinians the opportunity to try to arrange a big party next week in the United Nations.
hope indeed peace process successful summit
I hope the summit will indeed by successful and take place before very long, ... We must do everything so the peace process can be renewed.
cannot continue hunt message restraint silence terrible terror
The message cannot be one of silence and restraint after such a terrible attack, ... The terror organizations must know that we will continue to hunt them everywhere, all the time.
allow elections hamas
We will not allow Hamas to take part in the elections.
commitment implement
While the Palestinians are not doing anything, we would like to implement our commitments,
broad decided diplomatic open
We have decided to open a broad diplomatic offensive,
bring contacts desire light peace prosperity shared understand work
bring our contacts out into the light of day, so that our peoples may understand our shared desire to work with each other, to bring peace and prosperity to our region.