Ra'anan Gissin
Ra'anan Gissin
Raanan Gissin is an Israeli political scientist, analyst and consultant specializing in the Arab-Israeli conflict. He was senior adviser to Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and a frequent spokesman for the Israeli government on CNN, MSNBC, and Fox...
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If these meetings can be revived for the purpose of ending the violence, of course we view this in a positive light.
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If the Palestinian Authority cannot impose law and order in the most basic manner that is required to have a functioning civil society, how do they expect to establish a Palestinian state living peacefully side by side with Israel?
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There is no reason whatsoever we should assist a terrorist organization on the ballot to gain victory. This would be like letting a Trojan horse into our city.
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We will not enter into peace negotiations with people who advertise their desire to destroy us.
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We will put them on trial and they will have to serve their sentences in a real prison, not a mock prison, and pay for the crime they have committed.
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We can't allow to pay ... with the blood of our people and the blood of our citizens for some illusion of stability or restraint in the Middle East,
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until now could play the left against the right.
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Today's action was intended to try and stop this new wave of suicide and homicide bombings,
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We're not going to pay with Israeli lives while they are experimenting in trying to reach understandings with terror organizations and they continue to carry out terror attacks against us.
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We don't have a retaliatory policy, one must understand. And we make that very clear. This is a preventative policy, and we will take any necessary action persistently and consistently to prevent terrorist activity and the killing or shooting against our citizens.
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We extend a hand for peace, I think now the whole world can watch and see what the Palestinian Authority is instigating in response.
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was intended to send a very clear signal -- either Arafat brings justice to these people and fights terrorism, or we will have to.
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We're engaged not in a single event, but in a complex and critical process. But we think there is enough common ground to reach an agreement on some of these issues.
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The purpose was to hit the terrorists and those who sent them. I think that mission was accomplished.