More Quotes
Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu: “We have a third challenge, which is to advance a solid secure peace with the Palestinians. I believe that the framework for this peace is what I outlined in my speech in Bar Ilan University: two states for two peoples – a demilitarised Palestinian state that recognises the Jewish state. I think to reach this solution we have to negotiate in good faith. Negotiating in good faith means you don’t place preconditions. In the last four years, the Palestinians have regrettably have placed preconditions time after time, precondition after precondition. My hope is that they leave these preconditions aside and get to the negotiating table so we don’t waste another four years.”
Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat: “People who would burn an office are not fans, they are dangerous criminals, whose actions resemble those of crime organisations. We need to take this criminal activity, even terrorism, against the team seriously…. We need to remove them from Jerusalemite and Israeli society.”
(source: Army Radio)
Commission observer Lord David Trimble: “When taken as a whole, looking at the Israeli legal system, it will pass muster with the best in the world. Not to say that there are things that can’t be improved, that’s the case in all systems. But I think you’ll be very pleased with this report and I think the people of Israel should also.”
(source: Turkel Committee website)
President of the State of Israel, Shimon Peres: “Better to serve the nation than rule over it. Please, carry with you a vision of a better world, for each of us individually and collectively. For our nation and other nations. The vision of the prophets is a journey from slavery to freedom, the promised land. I wish you all success.”
(source: JPost, full speech here)
US State Department Spokesperson Victoria Nuland: “If the [Assad] regime has any interest in peace, it should sit down and talk now with the Syrian Opposition Coalition, and we would strongly support al-Khatib in that call.”
Israel’s Defence Minister Ehud Barak: “I cannot add anything to what you have read in the newspapers about what happened in Syria several days ago…I keep telling frankly that we said … and that’s proof when we said something we mean it… we say that we don’t think it [Syria] should be allowed to bring advanced weapons systems into Lebanon.”
(source: Haaretz)