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
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Israel is very sorry about the decision that was taken by the government of New Zealand, but we believe that if we will work one with each other, as we used to work in the past, we will overcome the last difficulties,
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Israel is a democracy; everyone can say what they would like to. But they are a very very small minority in Israeli public opinion.
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lay down in black-and-white that any organisation which calls for the destruction of Israel cannot participate in elections.
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She's coming also to try and narrow the gap between Israel and the Palestinians and to help us strengthen our relations with the Arab and Muslim world.
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We made a huge breakthrough today..., ... This is the appropriate time for all the Muslim and Arab countries to reconsider their relations with Israel. We think it will be a very positive signal to Israeli and Palestinian public opinion that there are some fruits from this withdrawal from Gaza.
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We will ease the life of Palestinians by giving them more industrial zones, more licenses to work in Israel and to stay overnight here.
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I think that this is the appropriate time for all the Muslim and Arab countries to reconsider their relations with Israel, ... I think that it will be a very positive signal to the Israeli public opinion and to the Palestinian public opinion that there are some fruits from this withdrawal from Gaza.
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There's no preventative measure between the Palestinians, between those terrorists to the state of Israel.
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We are not going to damage our safety and our security. We're not going to give those extremists the privilege to come so freely to Israel in order to carry out more attacks against us and kill us one day after another.
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In Gaza, there are 22,000 employees paid by the Palestinian Authority, fully armed, working for the security forces of the Palestinian Authority.
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not to give the Palestinians the opportunity to try to arrange a big party next week in the United Nations.
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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.
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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.
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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.