Silvan Shalom Quotes
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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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It's not a democracy here, it's the Middle East.
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The Palestinians will never, never implement their commitment to dismantle their infrastructure of terrorist organizations.
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I'd like to ask you: what you would prefer us to do? I'd like to ask my colleagues, would any other country act differently? I think the answer is very clear. No one would act differently.
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We would like to ease the life of the Palestinians. I prepared a new plan that we call a positive agenda.
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The security fence is reversible. Human lives are irreversible.
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No one can compare us to the apartheid regime. It's not like in South Africa between the blacks and the whites who belong to the same nation, or in Berlin where you find parents living on the eastern side and their children in the western side.
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We have the responsibility to protect our people and that's why we're building this fence. We've suffered from 19,000 terrorist attacks during the last three years.