Ephraim Sneh
Ephraim Sneh
Efraim Sneh is an Israeli politician, physician, and a retired Brigadier General in the Israel Defense Forces. He was a member of the Knesset for the Labor Party between 1992 and 2008 and served in several ministerial posts. He currently heads the Yisrael Hazaka party, which he established in May 2008...
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Iran actively and relentlessly undermines the peace process through various terrorist organizations. When such a regime has a long-range capacity combined with a tremendous effort to combine it with nuclear projects, it's of great concern to Israel.
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I don't think in the long run it is in our favor to keep the Gaza Strip tightly closed with people starving inside, ... Our policy to allow them to work in Israel after a screening, to earn money -- I think it is a correct policy. But the procedures have to be reviewed.
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I'm afraid this is the last chance, because a collapse of this summit may lead to, as I've said before, despair on both sides, and despair leads to violence.
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I don't think he profoundly believes in a two-state solution, ... But he understands in the current situation he cannot have both the West Bank and Gaza.
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concrete warnings of plans to carry out an attack at the shrine itself.
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targeting the people who have been behind the violence. This was not an attack on the Palestinian people.
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They intended to lay explosives in the center of one of the Israeli towns and to inflict very heavy casualties,
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So far it is not officially canceled, ... There was an idea promoted by the Egyptian president, Mubarak, and the details of such a meeting at this very moment are not known. The scheduled time is tomorrow evening and it's a long, long time here. Many things can be changed.
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At the outset, Netanyahu planted land mines in the agreement, that they would explode down the road and will destroy the agreement, because generally he doesn't want it.
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The deputy plays a crucial role in the Defense Ministry.
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We presume that when El Al passengers are attacked by a gunman at an international airport, we believe this is a terrorist attack, ... 'Til proved otherwise, this is an act of terror.